The Way He Was: Nascent Sexuality Polaroid Study

We all have our own private map of those places that played a part in the development of our sexuality when we were growing up. But not all of us have made those maps as public as our pal Igor at Driven By Boredom has with a new project where he plots "the spots that gave me the most tingles" on a Google Map along with a Polaroid and a description of what made them so ... er, tingle-worthy: the construction house where he and his girlfriend would sneak into to mess around, the bushes at the Masonic Temple where he had the worst sex of his life.

Time Out's Naked New Yorkers: This Could Have Been You

This week's issue of urban go-getter guide Time Out New York is the "Horny Issue", and to commemorate the rebirth of spring or whatever they put out an open call for people to pose au naturel in the magazine. Apparently everyone took them on it, so they selected seven hopeful naked superstars-to-be (both guys and gals), let them pick the location and theme for their shoot, and then had wonderboy photographer Ryan Pfluger capture their parts for posterity.

Prague's Big Sister internet-enabled brothel has long been high on our list of travel destinations ever since our globetrotting siblings at Gridskipper first bought it to our attention a couple of years ago. (But only from a sociological perspective, you understand, not because we want to boink our way to international notoriety via the dozens of video cameras set up throughout the establishment which broadcast the goings-on to tens of thousands of the site's subscribers.) Short of going to Prague or coughing up a $40 monthly membership to join the website, the best way to see what Big Sister is all about is photographer Hana Jakrlova's Big Sister photodocumentary project, in which both real life sex and the televised kind exist in an occasionally uneasy harmony ... with stuffed polar bears, even! It's the next best thing to being there, minus all those people staring at your ass.

· Hana Jakrlova: Big Sister (hanajakrlova.com, via sex-and-blogs.com)
· Big Sister: Erotic Club Online (bigsister.net)

CherryTV Vs. The Frisky: Who Talks The Better Sex?

It's hard to take a picture on a porn set or backstage at a strip club and not have it look like a lot of work we've seen before, particularly when so many artists and photographers have been mining this same territory for years now. That said, UK photographer Michael Grieves attempts to depict these "increasingly entwined and performative worlds of pornography, prostitution and stripping" via his own unique perspective: "'No Love Lost' does not attempt to be a statistical documentation but works as a lyrical documentary metaphor in a factual world about real fictional encounters and conveys a sense of the difficulties of meaningful human connection in spiritually vacant environments." OK, so maybe calling the adult entertainment world "spiritually vacant" isn't exactly a unique concept, but several of his photos do manage to convey a certain tenderness for their subject matter despite their ostensible detachment. (And at the very least we learned that there exists what seems to be a thriving porn industry in Peterborough, UK. Who knew?)

· NO LOVE LOST: Eking Out the Seamiest Boltholes (viceland.com, via Tiny Nibbles)
· Michael Grieve: No Love Lost (lensculture.com)

Previously: "SFV Porn" by Vera Hartmann, Jeff Burton, "The Other Place", Jean-Christian Bourcart's "Infertile Madonnas": Deep Inside The Brothels Of Frankfurt, Elyse Butler: Sexual Tension, Strippers Of London, "Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs", "Pornoland", Larry Sultan