Morning Wood

Don't attempt to adjust your monitors, dear readers—if things this week look a little more blue than usual, it's only because I've been slipped the hot pink keys to Fleshbot until Friday. So let's get nice and close, while I serve up some extra-firm monday Morning Wood. -V. Blue

· New York politicians hiring erotic dancers for fundraisers? Now that's some campaign finance reform we can really get behind. "Dancing for dollars: Sexy stage show to stir pot for his Council run" (New York Daily News)

· Meanwhile, Los Angeles ponders the marketing tactics and signage needs of its strip clubs—but really, doesn't "Vaginas 'R Us" have a catchy ring to it? (Yahoo News)

· Sure, we told you about that GTA sex hack eons ago, but Japanese bishojo (B-Games) really know how to mix manga, dataing sims, hardcore and gaming, as we learn in this interview with Peter Payne from JList. (IF Magazine)

· And just when we were about to start underground shipments of Hello Kitty vibrators to the good people of Huntsville, it looks like Alabama might get their rights to battery-powered orgasms restored under the law, after all. "Alabama Sex Toy Ban Back in Court" (Xbiz)