Back in 2001, when we were working at Nerve.com, HBO did a documentary-style show called Nerve: Downloading Sex. The two of us were poised to get our own reality-style segment featuring our party-planning stunts (Nerve was known for kick-ass parties back in Silicon Alley's heyday), including the two of us holding auditions for our all-male-model entourage (that day ended in a body pyramid of topless young hunks in our office with us at the top--sheer heaven). Alas, our bit ended up on the cutting room floor. The only thing that did make the cut was during the actual big party that was filmed, when Lo, pressured by the camera crew to "get the party started," pretended to put her hand down one of the model's underpants (Lo: "It was just down his leather pants, OVER the underpants, avoiding the naughty bits all together, I swear! A mere optical illusion, I tell you!"). Not a shining moment, though it did get the ball (or should that be balls?) rolling, as other less inhibited people proceeded to get semi or even fully naked, have oral sex and/or basically do it in public on camera as the night--and the drinks--progressed.

The special was set to be a pretty cool magazine show looking at various projects surrounding sex. One segment had all sorts of different people's faces in the masturbatory build up to orgasm, cutting quicker and quicker between the different expressions the closer and closer each got to their climax--it was fascinating in it's depiction of the variety of people's O faces and noises: some quiet and sweet, others loud and animal-like. But the powers that be decided to make that segment, and the entire show, more "Real Sex" than "Real Time." And so that particular bit just became two women, both hot young women, orgasming in a way you would expect women to orgasm for a male audience (boring!).

The one segment that remained true to the original vision of the show, and made it into the final cut as is, was a charming little piece on a bare bones (as it were) museum of animal penises located in Iceland. It included an interview with an elderly local man approaching 90 who'd agreed to leave his own human specimen to the museum once he passed on. He spoke quite fondly and proudly of its history and the women it had pleased over the years. (You can see his letter of donation and read an interview with the museum's founder from 2001 on Nerve.com)...