Dear Sasha: I came across a sequence of a porn movie on the Internet where the performer at one point sniffed sperm. I would like to know the consequences of her actions health-wise. » Just Wondering

Dear Just,
According to the Porn Safer Sex Charts in Violet Blue's book The Ultimate Guide to Adult Videos, ejaculating into the nose carries a high risk for chlamydia, gonorrhea, hepatitis B, herpes, syphilis and a moderate risk for HIV and HPV infection.

How about for viewers, a high risk for becoming emotionally obese from these overwrought efforts to make porn so fucking extreme? It's getting to be like fast food, where everything's double deep-fried with a layer of cheese and chocolate sauce, wrapped in hickory-smoked pork rinds.

Dear Sasha: I'm a woman who enjoys erotica that involves female domination and clothed-female, nude-male scenarios. I'd also like to see rape sites for women with women raping men - like they have for men. If it's okay for men to want to fantasize about raping women, why would it be wrong for women to fantasize about raping men? » Lydia Wants Lunch

Dear Lydia,
By my last count at the Yahoo group "Women in Control 2," there were 16,854 members, with over 100 joining weekly. A count of 150 members on the first several pages put the (identified) male membership at around 130.

So not only, dear Lydia, is it okay for you to have your rape fantasies, but there are around 14,000 men out there on a Yahoo user group waiting for you to wreak havoc on their asses.

Now, it sort of feels to me like you didn't bother going to look for any of this, which doesn't mean to say I don't believe women have these fantasies. The tone of your letter, "if they can have it, why can't we?" calls to mind an excellent article in the Aug. 29 New York Times written by Susan Dominus. Dominus interviewed Kelly Holland, who directs porn for the new, het-female-oriented station Playgirl TV. After doing some focus group work, Holland made an interesting comment. I want to share it because it conveys a sentiment I feel often, but haven't been able to articulate quite so well: "I have to take women at face value when they say they want to see more penises," she says. "But I factor in, how much of that is just because they want their MTV, so to speak - their right to media and their right to those sexual images? It's sort of an expression of their process of sexual liberation. It's like those rowdy women you see at a male strip club - it's almost like they're acting out some male construct of what sexual desire is supposed to look like. You have to balance what they really want with what they feel socially compelled to say."

Dear Sasha: Why do some girls have small clits while others have huge clits? Why is my clit dark brown? Is there something I can do to get rid of my big clit? » Virago

Dear Virago,
To give you a simple answer, your clit is large and brown because it is. That's the way it came out of the oven. The only reason you would have any idea that this may not be a good thing is because big brown clits don't get a lot of callbacks for roles where clits are required.

A good rule when it comes to body parts is this: if it has a clear function (and let's face it, of all the functioning parts on your body, the clit does one impressive job), we try to leave it alone. By this I mean we do our best not to let people who profit from visual prejudice near it with knives and scissors. If you feel like you just cannot get over the size of your clit, then sure, there are ways of changing that. See Dr. Gary Atler's site www.altermd.com for clitoral reduction. My opinion? Plastic surgery carries risks that I don't think are fair to inflict on a body part whose sole duty it is to provide you with pleasure.

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