the Smart Girl’s Guide to Porn is here!!!!

by Violet Blue on July 7, 2006

smartgirl.jpgI’m soooo excited! I was on my way out the door to SRL when I got a box — the first copies, hot off the press, of my new book The Smart Girl’s Guide to Porn!

OMG, it’s gorgeous! I ran right to SRL and gave one to Mark and we hugged and exclaimed and shared proudness. Eeeee!

I’m excited about this book in a way like no other. I feel like writing this is one of the most important things I’ve ever done.

And now it’s really real.

I have to celebrate tonight; I was going to stay in and do a podcast but that’ll have to happen later this weekend…

Read the whole table of contents to see what’s in this ultralutrafabulous book (after the jump) while I go collect all the crappy porn screeners around my house, make a pile, take off my clothes and roll about like a dork.


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Foreword: The Smart Girl’s Porn Club

Chapter 1 What a Smart Girl Wants
Women Get Turned On on by Explicit Imagery, Period. * Why Does a Smart Girl Watch Porn? * Getting Off * Curiosity * Ever seen two people have sex, for real? * It’s Fun for Couples * Find New Fantasies * See Things You’d Never Try Yourself * Get What You Can’t Find at Home * Our Fantasies are Are About Fucking, Not Shopping * Your Fantasies Lead to Good Porn

Chapter 2 Common Concerns About Content
Porn Can’t Make You “Do” Anything * How Do You Stack Up? * It’s offensive but it turns me on * Does Porn Degrade Women? * Fake breasts freak me out. * I don’t like anal sex/oral sex/lesbian scenes/facial come shots… * The men only come on the outside of the women, and the women never come at all. * How do they do it, with those fingernails? * The genital close-ups are more medical than sexual. * The unsafe sex really upsets me. * Questions of Age and Consent: Bangbus and Paris Hilton * Who are the Women in Porn?

Chapter 3 I Was Aa Porn Virgin
Two Viewing Requirements: Your Libido and Your Remote * Your First Shopping Trip * Keep Your Expectations In in Check * NC-17 and Softcore Porn

Chapter 4 Why Porn Sucks
Porn Looks Like… Porn * Most Porn Follows a Boring Formula * The Indy Porn Backlash * Where are all the hot guys? * The performers look like they’re “going through the motions.” * Porn Music Sucks * They Never Show S/M with Sex *

Chapter 5 Find the Right Porn for You
Avoiding What You Don’t Like * What’s On on the Box * Accolades for Porn Films? * The Name Says it It All * Buffy the Vampire Layer * Online Reviews and Porn Communities

Chapter 6 Porn’s Anatomy
Bisexual * Classics * Educational * European * Features * Gay Male * All-Sex, No Plot: Wall-to-Wall, Gonzo, and Pro-Am and Wall-to-Wall * Lesbian, Girl-Girl, or and All-Girl * S/M * “Specialty”

Chapter 7 Not Just for Geek Girls: Online Porn
How to Surf, Safely * Go Go Go, Pornzilla * The Evils That Porn Sites Do * Free Videos: Clip Sites and Torrents * Video on Demand * Free Galleries, Erotic Photography, Flickr, and Babelogs * Podcasts * Make Your Own Erotic Slideshow * Sex Blogs and Porn RSS Link Fun

Chapter 8 Porn for Couples
How to Talk About Porn with a Lover * Watching Together * Sex While You Watch * Porn Sex Games * Selecting a DVD for Your Lover

Chapter 9 Glossary: Porn Resources for Smart Girls

About the Author

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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