Commissioned in celebration of the April Flores cyberskin pussy, the show features, yes, plaster molds of April's ladybits, painted in a variety of styles by artists like Axis, Carlos Batts, COOP, Jim Mahfood, Kime Buzzelli, Kozy & Dan, Misha, and Small Paul. The show will be at La Luz de Jesus Gallery on May 13 (sadly, it's one night only)—but get a sneak peek at some of the art over on April's blog.

· Toy Exhibit Preview (fattyd.com)

Frankly, we think he made the right choice about what to advertise.

· Van Rijn All Nudes (vanrijnallnudes.com, via Clayton Cubitt)

· Tsang Kinwah: White Porn Painting (tsangkinwah.com, via highonsex.blogspot.com)

· K2: Ken Keirns (kenkeirns.com)
· Ken Keirns / k2 on Flickr (flickr.com)

· Fine Art TV: Carlos Batts Uncovered (finearttv.tv)
· Carlos Batts: C Batts Fly Productions (carlosbatts.com)

• Fleshmap: Studies Of Desire (fleshmap.com, via tinynibbles.com)

· Amanda Pearson on Flickr (flickr.com)

Previously: A Night At Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art Show

· BDSM Online (bdsmonline.ru; see galleries here - via Unscathed Corpse)
· Thumbnail by Trevor Brown (pileup.com/babyart)

When we say that Billy Reynolds' pantings are full of things like bouncing boobs and plump, succulent buttocks, please don't think he's just another cheesecake or pinup artist: those boobs are as likely to be attached to Marge Simpson or Wilma Flintstone as they are sprouting from someone's forehead or heaped with a bunch of other body parts and miscellaneous orifices on a bed. Unless you're accustomed to watching porn on peyote (Ed note: who isn't?), you probably won't find much that's erotic about them, though art history geeks can at least get off to the allusions to artists like Picasso, Hans Bellmer, and Philip Guston that pepper his portfolio. And as for any readers who want to know what Lois Griffin really looks like with no clothes on ... well, look no further.

· Billy Reynolds: Paintings (billyreynolds.com - thanks T.)
· Billy Reynolds: "Peristalsis" at Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, 5/19-6/10 2007 (blackmariagallery.com)

Previously: Art By Dana Richardson: "Not Yer Average Perv", Ryu's Form Site: Sexy Anime Pinups, The Art of J.K. Potter, Erotic Art by Christopher Leach, Art by Patrice Murciano, Art by Colette Calascione

Should you have been discriminating enough to click through to this post based on the above headline in your RSS reader—we know that the word "diptych" doesn't exactly scream "sexy", never mind the name Melvin—you'll be rewarded with the opportunity to keep on clicking and savor some truly hot new work by photographer Melvin Moten at Erocrush, who's been exploring a new technique in his work since we first posted something about it a few years ago: "I'm not sure what it is about diptychs and multiple imaging that attracts me. Perhaps it's just that I love cinema and the idea of using more than a single frame to tell a story or convey a thought is second nature to me." You can read more about his creative process on his highly illuminating blog, where he discusses his collaborations with his models like Candy here. Or you can just head straight to his portfolio to see more stunning examples of his work. After all, if one picture is worth a thousand words, than two or three of them together must be worth ... er, we're a little too distracted to do the math right now. But you get the idea.

· Erocrush Galleries (erocrush.com, via Fluffy Flippancies + previously seen here)
· Melvin Moten Photographs (melvinmoten.com)
· The Story Behind The Skin (Melvin's blog @ storybeneaththeskin.blogspot.com)
· Thumbnail star: Candy (candyposes.com)

Previously: Photos by Guy Le Baube, Cold Russian Hotness by Oleg Kosirev, Antone Pavlov and Molly: Fetish Muse, Portraits by Todd Hido

If we had to do it all over again, we probably wouldn't change a thing about the first time we had sex: losing our virginity in the cramped confines of the back of a '77 Camaro might have been a little uncomfortable, but at least it's given us some fond memories to rehash at cocktail parties over the years (not to mention reference in a blog post nearly two decades after the fact). Those of you with less memorable experiences, however, might want to check out this virtual exhibit in the new issue of ID Magazine where six designers were asked to create the perfect places for popping one's cherry; the results range from futuristic pod-like platforms that look like something straight out of "Sleeper" to a multistory "Lost Virginity World" complete with an elevator guaranteed to get stuck between floors and a chimney that releases a heart-shaped puff of smoke every time a couple crosses that magic threshhold (awww). And for the record: we'd still choose our '77 Camaro over artist James Victore's '55 Chevrolet Bel Air with "spacious bench seats and Marvin Gaye or Meatloaf on the radio" any day. We miss that damn car.

· "In the Mood for Love: Six designers imagine the ideal setting for losing one's virginity" (idonline.com, via sexblo.gs + Core 77)

About the only thing that gets us more excited than a citywide spectacle devoted to sexy art and culture is a website that greets us with the tantalizing words "SEXUAL CONTENT WARNING" in bold caps—and fortunately where this year's Seattle Erotic Art Festival is concerned, we don't have to settle for just one or the other. Alas, you'll have to go to Seattle yourself this weekend to check out what will be heating up the walls of the Fenix Performance Arts Theater in SODO since the festival organizers haven't yet posted any examples by the hundred or so artists whose work will be on display, but given the fact that nearly a dozen printers in the Seattle area refused to print the exhibition catalogue due to its explicit content, you can bet they'll be more than a few pieces that will be just the thing to perk up that chaste space above your sofa if you're so inclined.

· 2007 Seattle Erotic Art Festival (seattleerotic.org - thanks Jefe)
· Seattle Erotic Art Festival on MySpace (myspace.com)

· Thumbnail by 2006 and 2007 SEAF artist Erin Frost

Previously: World Museum Of Erotic Art, 2007 Sex Workers' Art Show Tour, "The Dirty Show", "Negative Exposure", "Peeping, Probing and Porn", Hot At Large, EroticArtists.org, "Eros In Modern Art", 100,000 Years of Sex, "Kink" @ Museum of Sex

Italian artist Alessandro Scacchia's delicious fantasy babes are the kind of hotties you'd expect to see hanging out at the hottest hipster club or fetish party you could imagine—which is probably no surprise given the fact that his work regularly appears in places like the pages of alt fetish bible Skin Two and featured prominently in the debut installment of the Roman edition of NYC's own Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School this past weekend. But you don't need to subscribe to a glossy fetish print magazine or travel to Rome to get a taste of what Scacchia's work is all about—he offers a generous selection of his often tattooed and pierced (but always smokin') lust objects on his online portfolio, where you can also purchase original prints or enjoy his unique brand of fetish pinup hotness on everything from t-shirts to fridge magnets. We're not always fans of this kind of Cafe Press merchandising, but where Scacchia's babes are concerned we say bring it on. (Besides, we don't think they'd really give us a choice. Arguing with a chick in a latex body suit while she's holding a giant syringe is never a good idea.)

· Alessandro Scacchia Website (alessandroscacchia.com, via Dadanoias)

Previously: Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, Dr. Sketchy's Rainy Day Coloring Book Release Party, Sexy Pin-Up Art by Paul John Ballard, Sexy Pinups by Viktor Jung, Mark Wasyl's Drop Dead Sexy Pinups, Sexy Art by Mónica, Erotic Illustrations by Erica Glasier, Grafuck 2.0, Pinup Art by Gina King, Susan Heidi Pin-Up Art

Artist, Yale grad, punk rock heartthrob, and porn renaissance man Zak Smith told us while we were shooting him in Las Vegas during the AVN Expo last month that he has two faces he makes for photographs: the "gay prostitute" look and the "I fucked your mother; what are you going to do about it?" look. So if watching Zak get a blowjob while lounging around in a fancy bathrobe in our suite at the Venetian isn't your thing (and if his girlfriend's rack doesn't provide enough of a distraction in the event you're especially peen-phobic), you'll hopefully still be able to match the face to the photo and enjoy Nikola Tamindzic's exclusive photospread anyway. Must be fun to be, like, famous and stuff.

· Zak Smith: 19th Floor (Fleshbot Gallery)
· Photos by Nikola Tamindzic (ambrel.net)

See also:
· Zak Smith aka Zak Sabbath (zaxart.com + zaksabbath.com)
· Order: "Zak Smith: Pictures Of Girls" and "Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow" (Amazon)

Previously: Zak Smith Interview: "I Just Put It Where They Tell Me", Zak Smith's Second Porn, "Barbed Wire Kiss" Preview, Zak Smith: 100 Girls + 100 Octopuses, Kimberly Kane: 19th Floor

Considering the fact that he's best known for his critically acclaimed paintings of "stupid women with big tits" you'd think we'd be bigger fans of John Currin, but despite all those quirky curves and remarkable technique we always felt like we were missing something about his work. Still, there are elements of several of the pieces in his current exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City that we're definitely responding to. Could it be their increasingly refined brushwork? His subtle interplay between detailed observation and postmodern irony? Or maybe it's just the fact that a few of these paintings look like something Larry Flynt would have commissioned for the walls of the Sistine Chapel? We're so wowed by the painterly renditions of cock-stuffing (and so amused that they're likely to wind up hanging over the sofa in some big-ticket art collector's living room) that we can't quite make our usual art vs. porn jokes about them. Sometimes art just winds up in a class by itself.

· John Currin at Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue (gagosian.com)

See also:
· "What you need to know about John Currin" (Slate, 2003)
· "Currin Events/Money shots: Lasciviousness, voyeurism, and the inner life of paintings"> (John Currin exhibition review by Jerry Saltz @ Village Voice)

The holiday season brings more than egg nog hangovers and the inevitable tide of hot babes in Santa Claus hats this year; just in time for gift giving comes word from our friends at Cool Hunting about the second edition of Grafuck, the classy international compendium of sexy art and design curated by husband and wife team Fiel Valdez and Peter Vattanatham that features work by over a hundred artists from all over the world including Fleshbot faves Lisa Alisa, Audrey Kawasaki, and Samantha Wolov. There's not much by way of preview material on the official publication site, but you can persue the dozens of links to the contributing artists' online portfolios to get an idea of what's in store; in the meantime, we've already ordered our copy for the Team Fleshbot coffee table. That first edition we have is starting to get a little sticky.

· Let's GRAFUCK! (grafuck.com, via Cool Hunting)

Previously: Spartan Dog #12: Women, Box: The Fetish Issue, Uberbelle, Grafuck, A Magazine, Pretty Porn, New @ Phamous 69, (The New) Pornocha, Vellum: Volume 4

Despite the salacious title, you won't find a daily dose of random copulation at the Fuck A Day blog: it's rather a more classy affair, with a nicely curated selection of softcore porn, fashion, and glamour shots by artists including Tony Ward, Bruno Bisang, Danilo Pasquali, and our friends at LastNightsParty. The author describes the concept as a "way of looking", but we suppose if you choose to use the material for something else, that's up to you.

· Afuckaday (afuckaday.blogspot.com, via Indie Nudes)
· Thumbnail via LastNightsParty

Previously: Sugarnips, Boob News @ Bakunyuu Dialog, Caledo Show, Las Burbujas Enterradas