So sex advice is sex advice and most of it is pretty sensible and formulaic, but we had to laugh when Savanna (jokingly) suggested that "lots of opiates" are what it will take to convince your wife to join in an orgy with you. Or that the solution to your girlfriend's annoyance with how long it takes for you to come (oh, boo hoo) is to "have her stick her finger up your ass! Kisses!" She also gives a lesson in how to deep throat and explains why women love to take it in the ass. Seriously, this advice column is gold.

· Savanna on Sex (xcritic.com)

Helpfully arranged in sections with titles like "Bodily Fluids" and "Infidelity" and labeled with funny graphics reminiscent of road signs, "Bad Sex" nevertheless doesn't offer much shock value and, what's worse, provides few tasty examples of good sex before that, too, went bad. Instead, readers are left with a series of literate, astute, and blunted stories of lust gone wrong.

Exceptions include Monica Drake's "The Splatter Artist," a bittersweet tale of an ejaculator both premature and prolific, Lisa Gabriele's "Dead Wood" (you do feel sorry for her) because not only does she lose her boyfriend but she also comes down with a "battered pussy," and the one cringeworthy story in a book tnat should be full of them, Neal Pollack's shamefaced "Man's Best Friend" (it involves a different kind of battered pussy).

Even though I was disappointed with this volume of anti-erotica, I look forward to a sequel with the kinks worked in.

· Nerve (nerve.com)
· "Bad Sex: We Did It, so You Won't Have To" (amazon.com)

· The Sexies: Sex-Positive Journalism Awards (sexies.org, via Viviane)

If you've been wondering why you haven't seen the byline of Fleshbot contributor Audacia Ray around these parts lately, we're sorry to say that you'll probably have to wait a little longer: she's a little preoccupied this month with the release of her brand spanking new book, "Naked On The Internet," a look at how people use the 'webs to explore their sexual desires and connect them with world (and maybe make a little money, if they're lucky). As she tells Wired's Regina Lynn, "I wrote it to make people less afraid of the internet and what's going on, especially with women's sexuality." Since the internet and women's sexuality seem to be the two things that scare half the people in this country to death, that's a lofty endeavor indeed. Our loss is the series of tubes' gain, since the hot new thing in publishing is the virtual book tour and you can find Audacia talking about her tome on a different sex blog everyday in June. The rest of us will just have to keep waiting for our book deal to rescue us enhance our global profile, but congratulations to Audacia anyway. We're only a little bit jealous, we swear.

· Naked on the Internet Live Action and Blog Tours (schedule @ wakingvixen.com)
· Getting Naked on the Internet Is Risky, but Rewarding (wired.com)
· 20 Questions with Audacia Ray! (hotmoviesforher.com)
· Buy "Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration" (Amazon)

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Audacia Ray's Blog Tour schedule for the rest of this month:

June 6: Sexerati
June 8: Sugarbutch Chronicles
June 9: Gray Lily
June 10: Being Amber Rhea
June 11: Tasty Trixie
June 12: Gwen Masters
June 13: Jane Crowley
June 15: Desire X
June 16: One Life, Take Two
June 17: Mon Mouth
June 18: Goose and Gander
June 19: Quare Dewd (formerly Bitch|Lab)
June 20: Pretty Dumb Things
June 21: Talk to Vanessa
June 22: Renegade Evolution
June 23: Sex in the Public Square
June 24: The Gold Slut Standard
June 25: CineKink
June 26: Lux Nightmare
June 27: Girl Inchoate
June 28: Tony Comstock
June 29: Always Aroused Girl
June 30: Viviane’s Sex Carnival

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Previously: Party Report: "Bachelor Party" Is Good, Clean Fun, Party Report: Rachel Kramer Bussel Is Not On Top, Rachel Kramer Bussel's Kinky Blog Tour, One Nation Under A Dildo: Sex Worker Visions, Porn For Women: We Know You're Out There, Preview: "The Bi Apple"

Pity the poor sex writer who goes on a book tour these days; surely if the Marquis de Sade or Anaïs Nin were still around they wouldn't have to suffer through the indignities of cramped coach seating, amenity-free motel lodging, and creepy audience members gawking at you while you're holding court in the back section of a suburban Borders outlet. Happily, Rachel Kramer Bussel will be avoiding all that this spring as she celebrates the release of her two latest kinky erotica anthologies with a virtual trip through nearly three dozen sex blogs "to draw attention to dominance and submission through the sex blogosphere and beyond"; each blog will feature excerpts from the books on a particular day as well as reviews and each blogger's own thoughts on the themes Rachel explores in her books. You'll find the complete schedule after the jump, so make sure to mark your calendars and follow along starting this weekend. Just make sure you remember to pick up after yourself after ecah visit—even the most open-minded of sex bloggers don't like people leaving empty bottles of lube and used Kleenexes all over their front lawns.

· "She's On Top and "He's On Top" (book info @ cleispress.com)
· Rachel Kramer Bussel (rachelkramerbussel.com)

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Rachel Kramer Bussel's "She's On Top" and "He's On Top" Blog Tour Schedule

April 2007
1. Viviane's Sex Carnival
2 Sex and the Ivy
3 Comstock Films
4 Radical Vixen
5 Lumpesse
6 One Life Take Two
7 Lust Bites
8 Bad Bad Girl
9 Elexus Exposed
10 Pretty Dumb Things
11 en(gender)
12 Jessica Cutler
13 All Things Spanking
14 Sexual Evolution
15 Sexerati
16 Tara Tainton
17 The Tales of a Teacher (and Slut)
18 Brooklyn Rake
19 Red Velvet Rope Burn
20 Susan Wright
21 Mistress Matisse
22 Katie Spades, the Princess of Spanking
23 Sex in the City - The Real Version
24 Urban Gypsy
25 Jessica Gold Haralson
26 Cinekinkster
27 Always Aroused Girl
28 Ms. Naughty
29 Madeline in the Mirror
30 Molly Crabapple

May 2007
1 Polyamorously Perverse
2 Darklady
3 Nichelle Newsletter

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Previously: Sex Blog Roundup Archive