Even sex writers can't keep it up for that much longer: during a slew of across-the-board firings in every vector of the publication industry, the focus has narrowed on a handful of advice columnists and sex industry experts that are being cut from their positions. No, Dan Savage isn't going anywhere, but Tristan Taormino, also printed in The Village Voice, will no longer be giving her directorial sexperiences a forum through her column, "Pucker Up".

So are sex writers getting drilled? Not more than anyone else. The sector is niche enough to begin with in mainstream media that you can hardly call a couple lay-offs a trend of its own, and not just a symptom of the larger economic meltdown.

However, there is an interesting take away for any kind of writer: By using the Internet to blog about their areas of expertise, erotica and otherwise, a lot of columnists are giving their potential audience a chance to get the milk for free without buying the cow. Interestingly, that is also a fetish.