Newsweek interview!

by Violet Blue on July 24, 2005

Podcasting: Talking Dirty on Your iPod

Quote: “You don’t need big breasts or big advertisers,” says Violet Blue, the host of “Open Source Sex.” “It’s the ultimate democratic tool for sex education.”

Hells, yeah! I actually said that.

Okay, and here’s the thing: I’m #9 in podcasts in iTunes (and totally freaking out about it), above ESPN and Adam Curry (who will spank me, I’m sure). So if I’m in the top ten podcasts in iTunes, why won’t they put up my “album” artwork? It’s just a picture of my lips and a microphone. Sex ghetto, I’m telling you. Sex will never be treated normally or seen in a healthy light until these outdated ways of thinking about it die like the dinosaurs. They just toss it all in the “porn” dustbin, without even realizing that to do a porn podcast, you need to have substance and good writing, you need to entertain and keep an audience, two things that porn utterly lacks. Like, when was the last time you saw a well-written porn film, or heard porn movie dialogue that didn’t make you cringe? Podcasting is a whole new genre, and until iPod syncs photos and video with pictures, thus creating a visually distracting medium, we’ll have quality sex content in adult podcasts. Until then, anyway…

Violet Blue

The London Times named Violet Blue "One of the 40 bloggers who really count" and Self Magazine named TinyNibbles one of the “Best Sex Resources for Women.” Blue is an autodidact and pundit on sex and technology, hacking and security, porn for women, privacy and bleeding-edge tech culture. She is a journalist for ZDNet, CBS News, CNET; she's an educator, speaker, crisis counselor, volunteer NGO trainer, and the author and editor of over 40 award-winning books.

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