Illustrating ‘The Joy Of Sex’ Involved Trickery, Porn

BY ERIN GLORIA RYAN

For many of us, The Joy of Sex was our first (usually accidental) introduction to pubes. For its publishers, it was a challenge — how do you show people how to have sex without showing actual, well, sex? Very carefully, it turns out.

The BBC reports that Penguin, the book's publisher, wanted to avoid being charged with obscenity, and thus they knew that in order to accurately depict sex in an instructive way, they had to find a way to illustrate it.

Don't Be the Worst: When Is It OK for Me to Send a Girl a Picture of My Penis?

Our new sex columnist answers the crucial question Anthony Weiner (and every man) wishes he'd asked

BY JULIEANNE SMOLINSKI

This week, I also got a penis direct message on Twitter. It was from my friend Gina, who was worried that a penis direct messaging scandal might get in the way of our mission to get Fred Durst to direct message us a picture of his penis. I guess it's more of a contest, really, since the loser has to take the winner to Friendly's.