This is the fifth installment of my new newsletter: “The Valley.” To subscribe, click here. You’ll receive a weekly newsletter from me in your email inbox. When it became clear, back in March, that a California coronavirus lockdown was underway, I sensed this could be an opportunity for me. I…

This is the fourth installment of my new newsletter: “The Valley.” To subscribe, click here. You’ll receive a weekly newsletter from me in your email inbox. This week, I returned to posting on my Forbes blog, where I’ve narrowed my beat to the business of sex. With the COVID-19…

This is the third installment of my new newsletter: “The Valley.” To subscribe, click here. You’ll receive a weekly newsletter from me in your email inbox. About 23 years ago, when I set foot on an adult movie set for the first time, it occurred to me that someone should…

This is the second installment of my new newsletter: “The Valley.” To subscribe, click here. You’ll receive a weekly newsletter from me in your email inbox. At a certain point a few weeks into my self-isolation, I saw that photographer Nikola Tamindzic was creating “coronavirus portraits.” For his ongoing series…

This is the first installment of my new newsletter: “The Valley.” To subscribe, click here. You’ll receive a weekly newsletter from me in your email inbox. When people ask me what part of Los Angeles I live in and I tell them Burbank, they give me a confused stare. You…

When your body is a tool to inflict pain upon yourself — I. It’s years ago, but in your mind it may as well be now, and you turn your back to the nurse, and your spread your ass cheeks apart to show her the rash that circles your asshole. In a series of humiliations, this is the one you will remember years…

You realize there is a problem when you cannot sort the laundry. Picture it: There you are, in the laundry room. The laundry basket is full of dirty laundry. You look out the window. It’s: overcast the sky is a pale blue with cloud streaking across it it’s raining and…