Above is a picture of me at the NYC Sex Blogger Calendar Launch party at the beginning of November. See more of the great pics that Nick McGlynn took here. I am sharing the month of April with Sinclair Sexsmith – it’s our mutual birthday month, and the pic is pretty hot, if I do say so myself.

The 2010 NYC Sex Blogger Calendar is an unique project – it brought together a bunch of NYC’s writers, filmmakers and sex educators with twelve outstanding photographers to make a very cool and slickly designed calendar. This year, each model and photographer team came up with the way they wanted to represent their interpretation of the theme: Visions of Sexual Freedom. Over the next few weeks, each model is going to blog about how they arrived at their idea. I’m looking forward to hearing from each team about their creative process.

As it did last year, the calendar benefits Sex Work Awareness, an organization I co-founded with some former $preadsters. Last year’s calendar made the Speak Up! media training for sex workers possible, and with the enthusiasm that has met the project this year, we’ll be able to expand the media training from one day to a full weekend. We learned a lot from doing the training last year, and I’m pretty excited to make it bigger and better and keep working toward my goal of building a fierce army of media-savvy sex workers who can take on the establishment. Our first class of Speak Up participants is already totally doing that.

One of the things that’s unique about the calendar project is that it bridges the gap between advocacy and entertainment in a cool and engaging way. Sure, sex work is partly about sex – but advocacy and activism work isn’t especially sexy. The calendar, however, is sexy. And through the holiday season, when you buy the 2010 Sex Blogger Calendar ($20 + $3.25 shipping) you will also get a free MP4 download of the 25 minute director’s cut of my film Dacia’s Love Machine, which debuted last year in Berlin. Link to download will be provided on checkout.

So, for just $20 you can support the Speak Up media training program, plus get a hot calendar and a bonus free download of a weird and funny short film featuring yours truly.

$20 + $3.25 shipping – includes free download of director’s cut of Dacia’s Love Machine

Also, he’s a short teaser with one scene from Dacia’s Love Machine. The 25 minute version has more characters and more awkwardness.

The 2010 NYC Sex Blogger Calendar is unique in bringing together several of NYC’s writers, filmmakers and sex educators with twelve outstanding photographers and incorporating the participation of the larger sex-positive community to our efforts to support Sex Work Awareness. Last year’s calendar made the Speak Up! media training for sex workers possible and with our community’s continued support, who knows what we can accomplish this year!

In addition to sponsorship opportunities, which you can learn about by emailing nycsexbloggerscal [at] gmail.com, you can purchase a day on the calendar and put an 80 character message on it. Wish someone a happy birthday or blogoversary, or just advertise for your blog or other project. Each day is $10, or for $30 you can get a day and pre-order the calendar, which will be available in November 2009. Click on the graphics below to buy days, and be sure to tell us the date you want in the “special shipping instructions” box.