It was just after the music school’s graduation ceremony. Reiko, an attractive 26-year-old instructor, confesses that was when she commenced an “adult relationship” with a former student.

“I knew he was in love with me,” she tells Shukan Taishu (10/15). “On his graduation day I felt so sad — like I was losing a younger brother.”

That day, the student followed Reiko all the way back to her apartment, and shyly handed her an original disc he’d recorded of his own classical performance.

“I was so overjoyed, I cried,” Reiko recalls. “Then he extended both hands and gripped my shoulders. From that moment I began to see him as a man, and not just as a student.”

She invited him up to her room.

Uh oh. Does this mean what we think it means? Yup. (more…)

NEW YORK: How do you prove you’re a virgin in the town that inspired “Sex and the City”?

The producers of an off-Broadway show are giving away free tickets to anyone who can demonstrate his or her chastity.

Which raises the question: Just how will the theater know?

Producer Ken Davenport, 34, had a hypnotist screen people standing in line for the free tickets to Thursday’s first preview of his 90-minute comedy, “My First Time,” and determine their status.

The show, which opens July 28, is based on a decade-old Web site that invites people to anonymously share their stories about losing their virginity: “I still have the Metallica shirt he wore that night,” one person wrote on the Web site. (more…)

Faking orgasms has always intrigued me because it’s something I’ve never done. It’s not that it’s never been needed, it’s just that I prefer an awkward, “Um… no, that’s good” rather than an elaborate performance. Still, most women will or have faked orgasms, and I’ve always wondered why.

Last week I solicited “faking it” tales and got some pretty interesting responses. Besides a pretty unbelievable tale posted as a comment on the website, my responses were all female and all for pretty much the same reason: I just wanted the encounter to end. From one girl who faked for an entire relationship to another who wanted an awkward encounter with a good friend to end, the general sentiment was, “It wasn’t going to happen, and I didn’t know how to let him know.”

Why is it so ingrained that sex isn’t over until both parties have reached climax — even when it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen?

I found an interesting article on this very subject from a sociology journal, Body & Society, entitled “Faking like a Woman? Towards an interpretive theorization of sexual pleasure,” by Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott. The article suggests that while many feminists argue that the female proclivity to “fake it” is a result of a misogynistic misunderstanding of female sexuality, in reality “the current masculine meanings associated with the ‘sexual sentence’ and orgasm itself are not given by male sexual anatomy and physiology, but are the product of culturally ordered meanings embedded in particular social practices. The meanings of orgasm derive from social, not biological contexts.” (more…)

TAMPA – Kevin Alderman thinks of himself as “the Hugh Hefner of the digital millennium.”

He’s built a virtual adult entertainment empire, making and selling cyber sex toys in a three-dimensional online world known as “Second Life,” a hugely popular Internet community with 7 million residents. It’s an Internet universe where businesses thrive, universities teach, musicians perform and people fly.

But Alderman wants the real-life courts to settle his grievance with another avatar, or online persona.

On Tuesday, his company, Eros, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court claiming the avatar known as Volkov Catteneo has violated the trademark on one of his devices called a Sex Gen. Eros claims the avatar has made unauthorized copies of the device and is selling it for a profit.

Alderman’s products may exist only in cyberspace, but they bring real money. Alderman recently sold a virtual representation of Amsterdam he created for $50,000 through E-Bay.

He said he sells about 1,000 Sex Gens a year for the equivalent of about $40 each. As Alderman explained it, a Sex Gen is kind of a machine that manipulates avatars into various positions.

“I don’t just do sexual positions,” Alderman said. “I also do cuddles and kisses and fun things.” But the sex is “what people want,” he added. “I give them what they want. I’m an entrepreneur.”

Alderman said he’s made enough money to sell a plumbing contracting business he used to have in Tampa and to employ 12 people who design, build and sell objects in Second Life.

Although one online site referred to him as an Internet porn mogul, Alderman said he doesn’t do pornography. “I’m a toy maker,” Alderman explained. “I’m an erotic Geppetto.” (more…)