Category Archives: Sex

Jen & Dave: Mom and Pop Porn Pioneers

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Tom Warner

It hardly looks like a porn palace, but Jen and Dave have been making and distributing amateur internet porn here for the last 17 years. In fact, through trial, error, and exhibitionism, they helped invent online pornography. Continue reading →


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Michael Phelps Sells Subliminal Subway Sex

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Scott Huffines

Via Subliminal Messages in Advertising: “In this banner taken from SUBWAY restaurants official website you can see that the steam ascending from the sandwich spells SEX. The word SEX is also etched several times on the sandwich and on Phelps’ … Continue reading →


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Phallic Friday: Michael Phelps Swings to the Left

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Scott Huffines

Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps shows off his mooseknuckle in swimgear so tight that you can tell he’s circumsized, packs a fairly large nut-sac and may be shaved to boot. Tags: michael phelps, penis, phallic friday, phallus


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Tom Warner Interviews Annie Sprinkle (1982)

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Tom Warner

Tom reminisces: “…my very first byline for the Baltimore City Paper, an October 1982 story about adult film star Annie Sprinkle‘s visit to The Little X Theatre on Howard and Franklin Streets, back in her pre-”Post-Porn Feminist” period. The Little … Continue reading →


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Baltimore’s Forgotten Porn Convention

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Scott Huffines

HERE Today, Gone Tomorrow Home Entertainment Retail Expo @ Baltimore Convention Center September 21-22, 2004 Atomic TV covered the East Coast Video Show the only time it was held in Baltimore in September 2004. Formerly held in Atlantic City, NJ, … Continue reading →


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Marty Bass: Be Sharp. Be Natural.

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Scott Huffines

Be Sharp. Be Natural. By Andrew Cohn Last summer Davy Rothbart, creator of FOUND magazine, asked me to join him on tour to promote the new FOUND book. I Dee Jayed before and after each show on a twenty-five city … Continue reading →


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The Penis Tree

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Tom Warner

A Baltimore Landmark Pee-pee Tree puts the schwing into Spring Credit where credit is due: It was Senator Theatre Manager Gayle Grove who first alerted me to this topiary curio on nearby Woodburne Avenue. She had seen it while walking … Continue reading →


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Carousel Coupling at the City Fair

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Tom Warner

Anybody remember this infamous incident in the annals of Baltimore Babylon? I must have xeroxed a copy of the newspaper ad, which hangs to this day on my refrigerator… The infamous 1987 City Fair cartoon, fullsize Close-up of coupling carousel … Continue reading →


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Baltimore’s Bawdy Block

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Scott Huffines

America’s Cities of Sin Chapter 3: “Baltimore’s Bawdy Block” by Stephen Hull (Copyright Stag (1952)) THE OLDEST, lushest, bawdiest tenderloin in the United States today is that back-of-the-waterfront area of Baltimore, Maryland, known as “The Block.” Actually the district covers … Continue reading →


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Baltimore’s Playboy Magazine

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Tom Warner

by Tom Warner While we’ve all heard of Hugh Hefner’s famous girlie mag, Baltimore’s Playboy Magazine (shown left) is relatively unknown. Alternately known as This Week In Baltimore: The Playboy Magazine or The Playboy Presents: This Week In Baltimore (with … Continue reading →


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Baltimore Street Whores: A Shopper’s Guide

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Scott Huffines

by Robin Miller There is a bar on Wilkens Avenue in Southwest Baltimore that has one customer and one bartender in it on a Wednesday afternoon. The two men are sipping beer and discussing the decline of the Orioles when … Continue reading →


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Blaze Starr recalls burlesque era in new film

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Tom Warner

Once the Queen of Baltimore burlesque, Fannie Belle Fleming — better known as Blaze Starr — has been living the quiet life in rural West Virginia for more than 30 years now, far away from the blinking neon signs, barkers and strippers of The Block. Continue reading →


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