From the monthly archives:

March 2004

On the Air Tonight

by violet blue on March 31, 2004

Great news, before I head down to the dildo hut. Tonight I’ll be making my third appearance on Sirius OutQ Radio on the Derek and Romaine show. Last time they deputized me as the "official porn reviewer" of their show, and have booked me for monthly gigs all the way into June! It’s satellite radio so you can tune in with your computer, and if you want to hear what my voice sounds like and find out about some good porn I’ve seen lately, tune in at 6pm West coast/9pm east coast times. Also, I’ve been asked to go to LA to judge the nationals of the Robolympics, which will be literally tons of fun. Okay, now I’m late for work…

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Viva Viagra!

by violet blue on March 29, 2004

About a month ago I read a cute little "road test" essay by Freddy (over at one of my favorite sites Freddy and Eddy) where he gets his hands on some Viagra and tries it out — wearing out cutie-pie Eddy in the process. I got turned on just reading it, wondering why it must be like to have a hard-on that won’t go away. I mean, I feel like that sometimes, but to have it be genuinely beyond my control sounded like a fun fantasy. And while I’d heard rumors about women taking Viagra, I still hadn’t seen or read anything about women taking it. While I was mulling all this over in my head, Pfizer (Viagra’s maker) issued a release stating that the little blue pill was in no way effective for women, and could not be used to treat arousal difficulties in women, and they were halting research on female arousal pills. If that didn’t get my spider-sense tingling, one of their statements surely did:

"Scientific tests have confirmed that women achieve most sexual satisfaction through the stimulation of their brain and not any other organ… A woman’s arousal is triggered by a network of emotional, intellectual and relationship-based factors rather than the simple physical response required by a man."

As if. That was all I needed to go buy some (expensive) Viagra online and see if the little blue pill could rub and stimulate my "brain" into a hot throbbing "intellectual, relationship-based" frenzy until I exploded my emotional factors again and again, or until my sheets were soaking wet. Coincidentally I had a doctor’s appointment to check on my post food-poisoning state, and my doc is a sweet older gay man who does HIV outreach work and is a fab resource for all my tricky sex-ed STD questions. So I asked him about women and Viagra, and told him that I’d read a lot about men road testing it but nothing about women. He said he’d heard nothing, but that physically it should act in a very similar way — which is what I’d surmised. With the clitoris being connected to two long, wishbone-like legs of erectile tissue running from the tip of the clit along the sides of the vaginal opening all the way to the anus, women *do* get erections when stimulated — it’s just not nearly as obvious as a penis. Anyway, he said, "What are you thinking of doing?" I told him that I was going to buy some online with my credit card. He said humorously, "Why don’t you ask your doctor?" I said, well, I didn’t think it was legal. He said, "Well, it’s legal-ER than what you’re thinking of doing!" So he gave me a sample. And now,I am still broke, yet the eagle has landed.

Everything they’re telling you about women and Viagra not working is bullshit. I took the drug on an empty stomach with a glass of water (as suggested), and since the packaging explicitly states that Viagra only works when you’re already turned on, I purchased a new, exciting toy at Good Vibes just for the occasion — the Power Pucker, a little vibrating clit pump. Clit pumps draw blood to the clit, and with the vibrator in the deal I figured I had a pretty good chance of "making" myself get aroused. Also, contrary to my job and reputation, I don’t always get aroused when I want to, or have orgasms when I want to. I was nervous, and even a bit more so that I had invited my trusted lab assistant Hornboy to join me in the dosing festivities. It was early evening on Friday, and it did feel eerily like we were teenagers "dosing." To relax and make a clean play area, we both jumped in the shower together and shaved — his face, my pussy. But before any amour could begin, my hot water ran out. Figures. But like little kids we ran down the hall to my bedroom and jumped in the bed, where candles and music were waiting.

Hornboy pulled the Wedge out of my closet, reminding me that I need to write an article about it and that I hadn’t been doing enough research lately… I ignored the reminder and hopped up on the Wedge, smiling with my butt in the air and back on the bed, tits pointing skyward. I think that’s when I began to first feel the effects of the Viagra, my face felt flush and hot and my sinuses started to clog, though I felt warm and comfortable. Hornboy massaged my breasts, and I asked… stuttered… "Can–you–" I looked at my breasts, and he popped the clit pump on my nipple and squeezed hard "OW!" I yelled. He rushed, "I’m sorry! I’m sorry!" I laughed, saying it’s okay, sometimes I actually stutter when my mind is racing, a leftover from my childhood. I said I wanted some lotion on my nipples, and suggested some massage oil from the GV Massage Candle by my bed, which, when lit, is an excellent hot oil dispenser. He complied, and the momentary heat/sting of the hot wax (turns to oil) felt luscious. I grabbed the candle and dripped the wax/oil onto his cock, which was now quite hard.

I put the wee little pump on my clit and gave it a few gentle squeezes. I was having a hard time telling if it was working — I was already in what I consider my secondary arousal stages, desensitized, feeling general heat and pressure around my vulva and needing more stimulation. I was also very flushed, rosy-cheeked, and felt like all the blood was rushing to my head, but it was also because the Wedge had my butt higher than my head. I pumped the pump and turned on the vibrator — Hornboy asked how it was, and I grunted, "not enough." He helped by massaging the rest of my vulva with lubed fingers, which made me toss the toy and go for the boy. He teased me for a minute playing his cock around my opening, and when he went in, I was *so* ready, and so incredibly wet I surprised myself. (Wetness is from the erectile tissues filling with blood and a clear fluid — a blood byproduct — being pushed through the vaginal walls.) We had intercourse for a bit before I pushed him off to grab my favorite and most reliable couple’s toy, a vibrating cockring that is strong and has given me many orgasms on the end of Hornboy’s trombone. I was feeling like a sex-crazed animal at this point, all inhibition was lost and I was hell-bent on having lots of sex — before putting on the toy I gave him a long blowjob, surprising myself by being so aroused that I easily deep-throated him and made puddles between my own thighs. I would’ve sucked a lavender silicone dildo into a dry husk if it had gotten too close to my mouth. When we got the vibrator on him and I got on top (the woman has to control the action with vibrating cockrings or they miss the clit entirely), I came so hard and so fast, I was astounded. And drooling. I was a sex zombie, seeking cock, not brains — I was definitely low on brains. I came again, and after sex, we had more sex and I came again in a different position, with no clitoral stimulation. It was definitely the physical effects of the drug; my "performance" was outstandingly different than usual in many ways. Of course, I’m going to have to do more field tests, for science. And try other versions of "male performance enhancers." But in conclusion, I’d say that yes, Viagra works on women, at least some women. Logically it should. I think it’s a weekend recreational sex toy, because it definitely takes a few (wonderfully wet and sticky) hours out of your schedule. If you want to buy some, this is the place. (I have no association with this site)

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Cockbot

by violet blue on March 22, 2004


Robolympics was incredible — I judged 44 rounds of robot competitions, in middle- and heavyweight classes, sometimes at near risk of life and limb from huge flying parts of machines being ripped apart and flung into the Lexan in front of me. And true to my SRL training, I did not cringe, but laughed and moved closer to the action. On the judging panel with me were the producers of Battlebots, nice enough guys, though I did take advantage of the hours we spent together to grill them about their show — as in, “So, why the bimbo announcers? It really looked dumb. It alienated lots of people, including me.” Them: “I know. We know. We got lots of angry mail about it. We really wanted someone who could ask appropriate questions, knowledgeable and real, and the network didn’t care. They brought in Carmen Electra, etc. We told them it was wrong for the demographic, but they insisted it was right for what they thought the demographic was — even though we created it [the demographic]” Me: Yeah, you could have had a sexy geek girl who knew the difference between actuators and servos, the robot nerds would’ve really dug it and you would’ve gotten more viewers.” Them: “We know. We tried.”

Discovery Channel, Tech TV and others covered it, and competitors and exhibitors came from around the world — the Japanese robots were mind-blowing bipedal humanoid bots that picked themselves up into standing positions when they fell over. Simply amazing. Unfortunately I got food poisoning Saturday night and am still laid up, but here are pictures from the event:

http://laughingsquid.org/pix/2004_03/robolympics/index.html

I have been ill, but sick doesn’t mean I’m not on the lookout for hot porn. And thanks to Fleshbot I am a happy girl. These LiveJournal messageboards are all about guys (all orientations) posting pictures of their hard dicks — amateur guys, most are incredibly hot. Also, guys and gals (again, all orientations) comment on the pics, very fun! Not worksafe, and quite delicious. Now *this* is what I’d like to see in a porn magazine “for girls.”

http://www.livejournal.com/community/show_your_cockhttp://www.livejournal.com/community/cock_talk

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Guerilla Furrie Bar

by violet blue on March 19, 2004

A few days ago, an email arrived on my doorstep as SRL crew, from an SRL fan and robotics society magistrate. Asking for help wrangling the Robot Olympics, he wasn’t specific with details as to what he might want me to do, and while I tire painfully of people endlessly asking if SRL is like Robot Wars or Battlebots (which these folks founded), I felt like I needed to see what this world was like, outside of the glimpses I’ve caught flipping around on the TV. I regularly work on and run large (I mean LARGE) scale remote-controlled robot machines for SRL, and have for the past eight years. Aside form the irritation many SRL folks have about commercialized genres copying us (and for good reason — we’ve been ripped off beyond belief, had our images repeatedly used without our permission, etc.), I wanted to support the robotics community, and inform myself about developments in the art. So I said, "sure" and cryptically was told to show up tonight (Friday; it’s after midnight as I write) for a cocktail. Strange, but okay.

So I went down to the lovely Herbst Pavilion on the waterfront and walked into a giant spectacle — robots from an inch in diameter to ones three feet across (mind you, these were still small, tiny and cheek-pinching cute compared to SRL bots). Bleachers, competition rings of all sizes, from teeny-tiny to steel cages walled in with Plexiglas. And lots of competitors, from age ten to at least sixty, families and their robots, older women and their bots, and it was very cool indeed. Even cooler, when I found a familiar face, I was handed a badge, complete with a picture of me stolen from my website, and told I was to be a competition judge. A judge? After eight years of war-zone style SRL shows… sure, I can be a judge. So tomorrow, staring at 10am, I get to see robots from all over the world strut their stuff and rate them on aggression and destruction. This is way cool.

After the cocktail mixer, which was really Budweiser and Costco snacks, I was all set to meet a few pals from SFSI at 26 Mix, a Mission bar I never go to but tonight was the night that the furries were taking it over in a semi-surprise attack called Guerilla Fur Bar. There is a Guerilla Queer Bar that I’ve heard of, where queer folks go in groups to typically straight bars to have fun and just "be visible" and this was the furry version — hell, no I can’t miss something like that. Except everyone I was supposed to meet flaked, and the few people I knew at the Robolympics mixer didn’t want to go — so I went alone. And let me tell you, walking into a bar full of people dressed like bunnies, tigers, raccoons, zebras and (?) is one of the funnest things to do, ever. Bunnies were hopping on the dance floor. Kitty girls sipped cocktails and flirted. Some just had ears on, but a few had entire suits that were the real deal — and they had to drink their beer from bottles to get through their large costume mouths. Even the bartender was a bunny, and I did worry about his ears catching on fire every time he leaned too close to a candle to reach under the bar. I sipped a cosmo and watched the whole thing, pondering flammability of costumes, thinking they must be really sweaty on the dance floor, wondering if they really had sex in their outfits. I saw someone with just a set of ears on and thought, "they’re not a *real* furrie — I wonder how many are real ones or just fashion furries." Then I realized — who am I to say who’s really a furrie, or not? I sipped my drink, enjoyed all the happy drunken furries, and came home to my little cat, who has no idea that he’s really a furrie.

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Dita Von Zzzzz’s

by violet blue on March 18, 2004

Late night tonight at the computer, working on a book, what a surprise… Am I a compulsive writer? I mean, I stop to drink water and watch porn, pet my fat fluffy whiny cat, check email, etc. I worked at the Good Vibes store (aka Akbar and Jeff’s Dildo Hut) slingin’ dildos all day and just wanted to make some headway with my latest deadline, so here I write. I stopped to cruise around the web (read: procrastinate) and came across this stunning site, home of my latest favorite erotic photographer, Chas Ray Krider

What a gorgeous site. It has many photos from his Motel Fetish book, an all-time fave of mine. It also includes pictures of Dita Von Tease, if you’re into her — lots of people are, but I just can’t get into it. I mean, I like brunettes A LOT, but I just don’t go for fake boobies (even expensive ones like hers), and while I was pretty neutral about her last week, a few days ago I watched a new adult video from S/M purveyors Bizarre, called Slick City. It’s a great S/M fetish flick, with lots of passionate whipping, great fetish costumes and an amusing plot — it has nicely high production values too. The bonus was the uncredited flogging scene between Nina Hartley (whose face was hidden the whole time) and her real-life husband Ernest Greene. Mon deu, it was hot and passionate as all get-out. But the bummer of the film was the main star, Dita herself, who has the emotional projection of a block of wood. Seriously — everything looks sexy until she tries to emote, or act, then it all becomes a theater of mannequin movements, the Stepford Wives of porn. Ah well.

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I made a censorship hit list! In this month’s American Libraries Journal in their "Censorship Watch" section, the main story is called "Sex Manuals Arouse Anger." In it, they describe a meeting by 75 angry Delaware County (PA) residents who want the library’s seven (seven!) sex books removed from the shelves.

"The controversy began in late 2003 when Whoriskey went to the library in search of a book about the Aitkins diet. Discovering several books on sexuality in the browsing section next to the Aitkins-related title, he borrowed *Violet Blue’s Ultimate Guide to Fellatio* and returned the next day to check out six others. He showed them to Delaware County Council members, state legislators representing the area, and Kathy Coll of the Delaware County Pro-Life Coalition, explaining in the January 8 Delaware County Times that the books are ‘all pornographic and there is no way they should be in a public library with my tax dollars.’"

I guess because only people who can afford to buy books should be able to learn about sex outside of tax-dollar-funded "abstinence education." Thankfully, at the end of the piece: "However, the board of the Marple Public Library voted unanimously on January 29 to retain the books."

Thanks to one of the Berman sisters for passing the article along.

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Party Crasher

15 March 2004
Finally, my home office is up and running, and I am rested after a couple of insane work weeks. You all know I work 40 hours a week, right? Then after work I do things like […]
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Oral Sex and Mouth Cancer

2 March 2004
On Wednesday February 25, 2004, Reuters in London reported findings published in New Scientist Magazine stating a link between oral sex and oral tumors (cancers). The paranoid headline read "Oral Sex Shown to be Linked to Mouth Cancer," and while the opening paragraph explained that the risk is […]
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