I’m always excited when former Amazon site manager Danny Choo goes to a convention (such as Tokyo’s Wonder Festival). He takes fabulous photos, the images are typically naughty in nature yet not explicit, and he features them in elaborate blog posts that are often festooned with hilarious commentary. Don’t miss his just-posted Wonder Festival Booths photo post that has images in large sizes presenting great detail on jaw-dropping figurines; you can find the whole huge set in this Flickr album or watch the slideshow below.
Image of filthy padded (silicone) mousepads by Danny Choo.
I’m not a particularly craft-focused girl (I prefer machinery) but when a reader sent me this fabric from an Etsy seller, I had to share my delight. Our reader domesticat writes,
There’s an etsy seller — obviousart, in Oregon — who got a contract to do some line art for a condom distribution company. No idea which one. She retained the rights to her drawings afterward, and has made them available on fabric. Her etsy shop has the fabric, plus a pair of boxers made from the fabric. It’s also available directly from Spoonflower.
I love this. It makes me laugh. There’s almost no quilt fabric out there that isn’t completely G-rated, and I love that it’s just bright and sunny and delightful. This fabric’s going in the quilt I’m making for myself — I’ve joked that it’s great to have a cheatsheet that keeps you warm.
Tonight while perusing Nerve’s always-fantastic premium member galleries (use my press account — login: nervepress pass: nerve520), I got lost in the dreamlike world of erotic photographer Duncan Hall. The photos in this post are from his Flickr page; you can find Nerve’s recent Hall gallery here, and he’s on Last.fm here. I picked some particularly hypnotic set pieces of his for this post, and there are more after the jump.
In January, I taught a class on sex ed and online media, including brand presentation, social media hacks for individuals and organizations, and working toward viral content. It was one of my best talks. The first of SFSI’s public continuing education classes (aimed at sex educators), it was standing room only and sold out — they sadly had to turn people away and close ticket sales. I was excited to see all kinds of sex educators in the audience, and thrilled to answer questions about online presence from Planned Parenthood. I am sad that some people I really love — and put the presentation together in mind for — couldn’t make it, but thanks to my request to film the talk, I can now share it with them, and with you. It’s now a free roadmap for anyone to make the most of. That’s called open source sex, friends. So, in five parts embedded in this post is my Sex Ed and Viral Media class. At least watch the first video; it’s pretty fun. Some of you will find the information to be very basic about online presence; you also might be surprised at how much I reveal about my own online branding hacks and tactics in the effort to get sex ed into mainstream consciousness.
I posted the slides on Slideshare, where you’ll find my talk text/notes; as you’ll see if you watch the whole talk, the notes were just my starting point. I’ll have an audio (MP3) version for podcasting soon. I hope you find this to be a valuable tool.
Wow, 2011 seems so much like it’s in “the future”. It’s amazing, I didn’t think I’d be with this series so long: I honestly walk away from, and hand off projects when I fall out of love with them. Nope, still love it! And it looks like Best Women’s is the longest relationship I’ve ever been in… Please so join me! I just put up the fresh call for submissions for this longest-running, award-winning, best-selling women’s erotica collection, which I’m honored to edit for another year.
Do read the guidelines and information that’s posted on The Erotica Readers and Writers Association, which I’ve reposted in full after the jump (below). I’ve also added links to several podcasts of stories from the past two years of Best Women’s — erotica and introductions, enjoy!
This caught me by surprise — and I expected to click on it and read harsh criticism. Why? Maybe because I really wrote this book differently than the rest, or maybe because I need to write *more* books… Or maybe write in more styles that stretch me, make me take risks. Like this one did. [...]
For your Saturday afternoon perusal, friends at SFSI just sent me Alternet’s The Six Weirdest Things Women Do To Their Vaginas. It’s a compelling, well researched article. Here’s a snip from the start:
What the hell is vaginal rejuvenation? Who would want their vagina bleached? Here’s a list of the strangest ways [...]
What are they smoking Down Under on the censor boards? I mean, it was a mess before, but now it’s looking like… crack. Not the kind of ‘crack’ we like, either.
* I was sent this a few days ago: the top item this week is that Aussie porn gatekeepers hate real [...]
Erotic entertainment for the purpose of titillation has been missing from these posts for a bit; hopefully this post will restore some balance. I’ve got a lot stored up, and hopefully there’s something you like in the following very explicit handpicked selections I’ve made.
* Lazerbunny has tattooed Cerise Cyn [...]
In yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle column, I was excited to feature and interview NYC-based, erotic photographic couple Paulie and Pauline about their upcoming book “Off The Set“. It’s such a cool book, and it features a diverse group of porn performers showing us what it looks like when [...]
This photo is not pornographic! Unless you want it to be. It’s just Jack and his new pony.
Two topics seem to be urgently circling back on news items we’ve been following here for a while. Neither will make you happy or horny, and for that I will promise to make it up to you, but [...]
It is the new Vice Fashion: Work Hard, Play Hard men’s fashion shoot. When you are done, click your heels and say “Zoolander” three times. (thanks, viniow!)
“No one wants to see curvy women.” –Karl Lagerfeld
O, rly?
I’ve been looking for an excuse to point you to this month’s V Magazine’s Curves Ahead photo spread, featuring several sexily undressed models with more padding than the average couture coathangar — it’s a hell of a shoot that does not shy away from the undeniable [...]
Image by new discovery Johannes Schwab (joschwab.com).
It’s very nice to be back; Tiny Nibbles was up and down all day (thanks to everyone who let me know and sent me data), and it was more than a little heart wrenching. I tend to hyperventilate when something happens to my site; I’ve been hacked once before [...]
We love Tumblr sex blogs because they are so diverse, a fertile place to discover hot new artists, and to see sexual expression we won’t see anywhere else; we hate Tumblr blogs because of the rampant attribution issues and frustrating lack of source credits. Oh, and they screwed me (not in [...]
Image by helenaa75; if this was your profile pic you would be too busy for the OKTrends blog.
I love the OKTrends blog; dating website OKCupid has some brainy sexy nerds working there, for sure. They have a fetish for completing data and stat crunching projects about dating and member habits, with fascinating results. One of [...]
If you’re reading this blog post on eros.topnewsdigest.com, it has been stolen and reproduced without permission from tinynibbles.com. Yes, I’m going to do something about it. They are stealing from a number of sex bloggers.
In other, erm, news, I found a link to The Top 10 Most Bizarre Sex Ed Videos, which I have re-titled [...]
A moment of fetish fashion and general ogling: meet Chicago-based House of Bias. I stumbled across HoB on Twitter and spent considerable time thumbing through their generous, fleshy, nippletastic galleries and online shop; not only do they have some of the most creative and attractive jaw-dropping rubber couture, but they don’t cover up their models [...]
I’m thrilled to officially announce that my newest book is out, one that I wrote — Seal It With A Kiss: Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Delivering the Knockout Kiss (Amazon link). I only write one or two books a year (rather than the anthologies I edit like Best Women’s Erotica or Sweet Love, which [...]
Violet Blue is a Forbes "Web Celeb", notorious blogger (Laughing Squid), high-profile tech personality and one of Wired's "Faces of Innovation." She is regarded as the foremost expert in the field of sex and technology, a sex-positive pundit in mainstream media (CNN, The Oprah Winfrey Show) and is interviewed, quoted and featured prominently by major media outlets. Violet has many award-winning, best selling books and is the sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She headlines at conferences ranging from ETech, LeWeb and SXSW: Interactive, to Google Tech Talks at Google, Inc.
China just sentenced a man 13 years for running a pr0n clip site. they are "purifying the internet" - http://vb.ly/228fabout 8 hours ago
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after telling me "we don't mind if you post the login info, by-the-by" @nerve revokes the pass I gave you. tell them how much that sucks.about 8 hours ago
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since I just remembered Nerve.com gave me a press pass (NSFW galleries) I think I should share it with you. login: nervepress pass: 520nerveabout 22 hours ago
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