The View From My Knees

This weekend Lucky and I are headed to the Big Apple, New York City. This will be my first time in NYC and I’m just not sure what to do. I’ve got a couple of must-see attractions on my list, such as the Museum of Sex and the Statue of Liberty. Does anyone have any other suggestions for me? The sexier the better! Come on, show me the seedy underbelly of the east coast.

Despite whatever depraved interpretations you might have for this post title, I’m writing here in recognition of Misty’s second full year as a sex blogger. Our lovely digital mistress has blessed us with another 365 days of pictures, stories, articles, and comments, and I assure you that she has plenty more in store as we get ready to ring in Year 3 here at herknees.com. So put on your party hats and take off everything else, because, clothes? Where we’re going, we don’t need clothes.

Original photo by Mechanic

This week I’m featuring a post by Radical Vixen in honor of World AIDS Day:

She refused my request to see him in the hospital. My aunt brought my niece to see him. My mother was upset by this and I wasn’t allowed to see my aunt or niece for awhile until it was obvious they hadn’t caught “the AIDS”. People didn’t call it HIV back then. I remember hearing adults call it “the AIDS”.

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Whatever your reasons, please donate to help fight this deadly virus, and to support the millions of people already infected.

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HIV/AIDS Facts and Statistics:

• South Africa leads the world in people living with HIV/AIDS, with 5,500,000 adults and children. The United States ranks 8th, with 1,200,000, and the United Kingdom ranks 41st, with 68,000.
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HIV/AIDS News and Links:

• Newly HIV-Infected Gay Men Select Other Infected Partners
  The study included 27 men with acute HIV infection. This refers to the one-month period immediately following HIV infection, when a person tends to have the highest levels of HIV circulating in their blood. This makes it much more likely they’ll infect a partner during unprotected sex.
• New Under-the-Radar HIV Clinic Finds Underserved Clientele
  On the Friday before Thanksgiving, the doctor’s schedule was just about maxed out with 10 patients on the books. In the three months since it opened, clinic staff estimate, about 50 patients have come through the doors of the Madison Clinic at Harborview Medical Center’s Bremerton satellite.
• Gates Foundation gives EVMS $28.5 million for HIV research
  An Eastern Virginia Medical School program that is trying to develop a topical gel that can prevent sexual transmission of the virus that causes AIDS has received a $28.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, school officials announced Friday.
• Dr Petra Boynton on World AIDS Day 2007
  This year World AIDS day focuses on the theme of ‘breaking the silence’. The aim is to encourage people to be more open about discussing HIV/AIDS and related issues in an attempt to reduce stigma.
• China AIDS rate slows, main transmission now sex
  The country will have an estimated 50,000 new infections in 2007, compared with 70,000 in 2005, though groups like men who have sex with men are increasingly at risk, according to a report by the State Council, or Cabinet, and the United Nations.
• UNAIDS
  Uniting the world against AIDS
• HIV/AIDS Treatment Programs Will Not Keep Pace Unless Number of New Cases Decreases
  Experts at the hearing testified that the “most important battle” in curbing HIV/AIDS is stopping HIV transmission but disagreed on how to stop the spread of the virus, the Globe reports. Some witnesses at the hearing debated the effectiveness of a PEPFAR requirement that one-third of HIV prevention funds focus countries receive through the program be used for abstinence-until-marriage and fidelity programs.
• Democratic Presidential Candidates Respond To Questions About Needle-Exchange Programs, Sex Education Do you support the replacement of funding for international and domestic “abstinence only” HIV prevention programs with scientifically based, comprehensive, age-appropriate sexuality education programs?

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The best of this week’s blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #110? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the link list within a week and you’re all set.

This Week’s Picks

Body Image In Art, Porn & Media
“Imposing it upon myself, or accepting that someone else has the right to impose it upon me, is something I can refuse to do.”

The Importance of Getting Tested for Sexually Transmitted Infections
“I am taking care of myself. I wish they would do the same.”

When Natural Doesn’t Feel Natural at All
“I’d kept mine neatly trimmed for so long, then cleanly shaved, that I couldn’t remember what I look like in full and natural form.”

Mr. Sugasm Himself
Pic(k) of the Day

Editor’s Choice
Darkroom Fantasy

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Erotic Writing and Experiences
A Blow By Blow Lesson
The Butch/Femme Tango
CyberGirl and I last night…
Endless to everlasting
Happy Birthday
“He”…
I told her of my blog

Making love, man to man
MILF Barbie
Confessions: My First Blowjob
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The Other Side Of The Table – Part 4
Possession

NSFW Pics & Videos & Audio

Ekaterina (Hegre)
HNT: Downblouse/Upskirt Tease
Kimberley Franklin – White High Heels
Orchid
Shay Laren dancing topless

Sex History
Antique Tommy Also Came

Thoughts on Sex and Relationships
“The Dinner Party”

Dipping My Toes In Foreign Waters – Polyamory
World AIDS Day

Sex News, Reviews & Interviews
Catalina loves XXXmas Shopping
The Cone
From Object to Subject
Memphis Monroe HotMovies Interview
My reason

NEW Blogging Designs!
Sexy’s New Holiday Center & Erotica Contest – Win $25.00!

Sex Poetry
The Crescendo
Half-Nekkid Haiku

BDSM & Fetish
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An Erotic Picnic
Goody Fellatrix
I’m TOO submissive
My Play Piercing Video
Soulmates Reunited
Tale of a Shoe Fucking Piss Slut
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Whether this is your first visit to the site or you’re a long time reader, chances are that you have some questions for me. Sure, I tell you the intimate details of some of my favorite sexual encounters, but there may be things I haven’t covered. New reader Naughty Angel exercised her journalistic curiosity by asking a few questions that other new readers may be interested in, and I plan to put the answers to her questions – as well as all of yours – into a podcast and an FAQ that first time visitors can read to get familiar with the site. No question is too mundane or too dirty. Want to know my favorite band? Ask me. Want to know what my favorite position is? Ask me. Have some questions about Lucky, Mechanic, or one of the other friends that I’ve mentioned in the past? Ask me.

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