Maggie Mayhem is going to Haiti. The activist, fetish model and adult performer plans to spend at least a month in Leogane helping disaster relief workers. The city was at the epicentre of January’s devastating earthquake and up to 30,000 people are thought to have died there. Miss Mayhem’s time in the USA is normally divided between doing marvellously NSFW things like this at Kink.com and volunteer work as an HIV counsellor and sex educator. In 2009, she spent time in Tanzania after receiving a grant to help support and educate the community against the spread of HIV. Members of the San Francisco BDSM scene have organised a fundraising event this Thursday and Maggie Mayhem is due to leave for Haiti on the 30th.

Read Maggie’s blog here.

Comedian, musician and fellow Bizarre Ball performer Frank Sidebottom, aka Chris Sievey, has died after collapsing at his home in Hale, Manchester. In May, he revealed that he was fighting cancer, but told the Manchester Evening News: “It’s bobbins. I’ve had worse.”

His World Cup single “Three Shirts on my Line” was released for download a week ago and all profits will go to Cancer Research. RIP Frank. You will be missed.

If you think that size doesn’t matter, a Russian political protest group called “Voina” might disagree. In the early hours of Monday morning, these radical artists drew a 65 metre long penis on St Petersburg’s Liteiny Bridge. After the bridge was raised, the enormous phallus stood erect throughout the night, looming above the FSB (formerly KGB) headquarters ahead of this week’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Unfortunately for Voina, their leader was arrested after finishing the right testicle. However, the group’s opposition to draconian measures introduced by the security services has since been broadcast across the world as a result of this priapic protest.

See more photos at Izismile.com.