Best xmas prezzie yet: “The beautiful people: Uber-sex-ay author/educator Violet Blue just released her list of the top ten sexiest geeks of 2007. Coming in at the number 2 spot is our own MC Frontalot (…)” Thank you! Click it for more:Link.

Someone please please PLEASE send as many pounds of fruitcake and holiday cookies to the girls in the following galleries — they have the holiday accessories to make for festive explicit xmas galleries, but I fear they do not have the body fat to survive the winter. To wit: Sofia & Jana - Spirit of Christmas Hunger; Evi - Sweet Christmas Bulemia; Fabi - Santa ( …Would Happily Give Up The Plate Of Chips Ahoy We Left Him To Avoid A Sally Struthers Intervention); and Jana - Christmas Gift (Of The Same Regifted Santa Hat Worn By Sofia, Jana, Evi, Fabi and some chick named Amandine — and Sofia and Jana and goddamnit I think Jana’s bogarting the Santa hat *again*).

Santa gets his hat back, autoclaves it, and girls go back to normal: an oft-asked for fetish, yet rare to find — a girl smoking. And Veronika is pretty cute. Richard Kern delivers a very pretty Natasha (very explicit; pictured) in a hotel room here.

* Way more interesting (and revealing) than US MSM telling us which stories of 2007 were significant (sorry NYT, ‘vegansexuality’ is so 2005) — the Observer Magazine’s top reviews, key events of 2007. Please don’t tell me that as a species we traded Pavarotti for Amy Winehouse.

* Books I’ve added to my Amazonian wish list and want bad:

The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms bu Jordan Tate

The Deviant’s Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious and The Hypochondriac’s Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have and The Paranoid’s Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On by Dennis DiClaudio

FIGHT: Everything you ever wanted to know about ass-kicking but were afraid you’d get your ass kicked for asking by Eugene S. Robinson

The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market Cookbook by Christopher Hersheimer and Peggy Knickerbocker.

* Best new words of the year: douchenozzle and twatwaffle.

* My favorite album of the year: Erykah Badu’s Baduzium: Special Edition. It’s groovy divalicious R&B, just the way I like it. Especially tracks Appletree 2B3 Summer Vibes Mix and Certainly (Flipped It).

* I’m a regular reader and admirer of Mark Glaser’s PBS Mediashift blog. Check out his interesting 10 MediaShifting Moments of 2007.

* Scientific American has their Top 25 Science Stories of 2007 up. I forgot about the “Pillow Angel“, yikes.

* I still love my Helio Ocean (the new YouTube app *rocks*), resent my again-broken (but once great) Canon TX1, mostly like my Lumix TZ3K, and hate my non-functional, ignored-by-customer-service Eye-Fi. (my friend Ted Rhinegold hates it too, and his even works.) My TomTom might be the best gadget anyone’s ever given me (thank you Hacker Boy), and I use it all the time, even though I grew up in SF. And I still don’t want an iPhone. Yet I’m lusting *deeply* after the Nokia n810, and Scott’s new Xacti HD1000. I need that Xacti *bad*. I miss shooting video.

* Most reliable and versatile vibe of the year at my bedside (or in my purse): the JimmyJane Chroma (thank you Good Vibes).

* Best porn films of the year: Triple Ecstasy, Debbie Loves Dallas, Tristan Taormino’s Chemistry #3, Skateboard Kink Freak, and Ashley and Kisha.

* Sexiest non-lingerie item(s) I’ve made the most of all year: Betsey Johnson’s cashmere legwarmers. I want the white ones now, too!

* Things I still need: a pink and black corset and a new laptop. Someone donated an old PowerBook to me a few months back and it died immediately. Brick! Damn. Still blogging with 2005’s tools over here… And I still don’t have an iPod with a color screen. Eeesh.

* Everyone’s “top ten viral video lists” are ass. They’re all YouTube crap, and everyone seems to be forgetting about the kittens. Like Nora, etc. Never mind that they’re all PG-13, leaving out some of the most popular virals. Still, I like the Neatorama has a poll going on the top 5 viral videos of the year. “2 girls, one cup” isn’t on there (barf, Goog at your own risk) and everyone forgot about Drunken Hasselhoff, but it’s a step better than Time’s predictable choices. (Aside: Can’t wait to find slave labor to help me upgrade my site so I can have comments and polls.)

Anyone try Stumble Porn and have any thoughts on it? I’m a curious girl.

Reader thoughts on Stumbleporn:

Hey Violet,

I was looking at your site as I do on a daily basis, and I saw that you had something on there about this new firefox plugin, Stumble Porn.
So I opened up my firefox browser, and installed the plugin, and tryed it out. it is ok, It takes you to some random porn sites, and to some youporn.com wannabes,
and inbetween taking you to sites it will bring up some random porn pics. Over all I would say it might be useful if you are looking for something to do on a boring sunday afternoon.
but it really isn’t worth a lot of effort either way, and least I don’t think it is.

Have a Nice Day!
David

#

I’ve not installed the StumblePorn toolbar, although I am a long-time
StumbleUpon user, and yes I do occasionally use it to look for porn ;)

A couple of thoughts :

1) I’m surprised that StumblePorn has not gotten a C&D letter from
StumbleUpon yet… clearly a case of passing off on the latter’s
popularity, IMHO.

2) The lack of any kind of policy or TOS for StumbleUpon does disturb
me… who knows what they might decide to do with the information you’ve
given to them regarding your ‘preferences’?

3) The strapline at the bottom of the StumblePorn web page says ‘Web
site contents © Copyright HWI 2007, All rights reserved’ but I suspect
that might not be the same firm that designs and maintains the toolbar.
No idea who they are, or what their motivation is, so why should I trust
them?

4) Having a search toolbar in your browser window with the word ‘porn’
prominently displayed doesn’t seem like a sensible move for the person
doing some ‘extra-curricular activity’ where they might be
interrupted… at least with the SU toolbar you can quickly close the
tab and erase the search box contents.

5) StumbleUpon have a system for marking content and topics that they
deem to be R-rated or X-rated, and users who bookmark such stuff have
their profiles marked accordingly. This seems to keep everyone happy
(for now), although I think they have removed links in the past that
they’ve deemed to be beyond the pale…

Merry Christmas!

Luscious friend Fatty D is going to have a better xmas than me, I can tell. A bit more with my pal Michelle Aston here.

The first Jenna Jameson film I ever saw was Flashpoint. It came out in 1998, and I saw it long after its release, but I was told it was supposed to be really good. As in, one of the reviewers at Good Vibes claimed she actually cried while watching the tale of firefighters and heartbreak, passion and complexity facing life’s most difficult decisions within the worlds of people who put their lives on the line for our communities in the spirit of selfless dedication. And also for, I guess, those formula six or seven standard sex scenes in the six or seven standard sex positions with the brilliance and pathos that always includes the required girl-girl scene nestled within a challenging plot. Challenging, for everyone, it seemed. It sucked. But I was like, oh, that’s Jenna Jameson. Nice boob job.

Preface: I know that by 2007 standards, this is a retro topic. But bear with me, dear readers. I don’t know Jenna; I know quite a few porn performers (as friends, even) but I know little about her other than that she is famous and has many ghostwriters, and is almost as litigious as Suicide Girls. I have nothing against Jenna, nor am I a fan. I am neutral. But having Courtney send me a link today spun me into a certain… je ne sais fug headspace. In which I decided I should use that cheap yet effective, time-tested blogging browser-based manipulation. The dreaded “scrolldown”.

Jenna really hit the porn scene in 1995, which is about the time the first two images (below) are from — the second one is supposedly her “first scene” with performer Draghixa. She looks sort of porn generically pretty, circa mid-nineties, a bit Romy and Michelle, as in, “‘Heather? HEATHER MOONEY? FROM SAGEBRUSH HIGH IN TUCSON?” She almost looks like she’s still wearing her retainer:

And then our Jenna got all growed up. She got surgified beyond the chestial region, had fun with her look, and didn’t look too porny anymore. In fact, in some pics she looked rilly hot. As in:

Romy: “I guess I won’t be seeing you at the reunion, but I’ll tell everyone you said ‘hi’.”

Heather: “Why don’t you tell everyone to go fuck themselves for making my teen years A LIVING HELL.”

Photo by polverino.com.

But I feel that something has now gone horribly, horribly wrong in the fairytale of porn star crossover sensation. I mean, I understand the decades of tyranny barring mainstream acceptance (that the porn industry has cowered under trying to simultaneously decry yet clamor for) that many starlets feel they need to make concessions for in order to feel like they made it, or gain some sort of access that seems like a good idea until you’re like brainwashed and married to Tom Cruise or something. Or playing yet another dead hooker on CSI. And I’d imagine that Jenna is not a bad person by any means, and she is supposed to be really rich and stuff, and yet when I realized that her advertised age is 33, I was flummoxed. Especially because the only way I might know how Jenna feels about all of her successes, real or calculated, would be by her expression in any given photo. Her facial expressions, have however, like Elvis in a clown porn costume at AVN, left the room. Jenna now “blinds us with science”.

Michele: “I know. And what a bitch, taking your hamburger. I mean, what
was that? God, remember the prom? You got so thin by then.”

Romy: “Oh, I know. I was so lucky getting mono. That was, like, the BEST DIET EVER.”

Oh no, that’s not all. Here’s the whole set.

You have a happy holiday weekend, and I’ll keep you entertained. Just remember to clear your history off the family computer… :)

* Perhaps you should brush up on The Joy of Rezbian Sex. Yes, I spelled that correctly; the link is to an interview and short article about women who identify as lesbian only in Second Life. What the? Yup, it’s a phenom. (thanks, storygeek!)

* Thomas has a fabulous, funny and informative article up at the Blowfish blog about sex in space (and accompanying hoaxes). Read OTAKU MAnKO: Sex in Space, Russian Style.

* Into blondes? Or not… Neatorama has this handy map charting the percentage of light hair in Europe. Now I just need one charting the percentage of hot kinky bisexual Goth babe bloggers studying library science in San Francisco.

* I *love* before and after image comparisons of porn stars — and none better than Jenna Jameson.

* I *hate* Huckabee: “In his 1998 book, Kids Who Kill, Huckabee compared homosexuality to necrophilia, decrying ‘publicly endorsed and institutionally supported aberrations–from homosexuality and pedophilia to sadomasochism and necrophilia.’” Among many other anti-gay hits. WTF — I mean, who *are* these people who want to run this country? Did they all goose-step out of some time machine? Ugh. I don’t want to vote anymore.

* Kumimonster is now on Flickr. Yum.

* Love and Sex With Robots just went on my wish list.

* Rubberslave has all you need to get your fill of extreme fetish before the long holiday weekend. Check out the lovely human inflatables swimming pool gallery. Trust me, it’ll last you. (via sexblo.gs)

* Right now, my pals at Altporn.net have exactly ZERO hot naked pinups with Santa hats or holiday crap. And some really delicious teaser photos. Gawd, Apnea is still drop-dead lickably hot (mmm, waffles).

* Lastly, don’t miss Cory Silverberg’s Christmas Sex Survival Guide. I love the inclusion of the link to sexual deaf signs (ASL).

Image from “Japanese Girl Spanking” (gallery) via Fleshbot.

The Forbes Web Celeb list is out (earlier than last time) and I’m not on it — phew! The pressure is finally off. I was really worried about what Leo LaPorte’s friends thought of me. Just kidding, but I really was sick of the paparazzi, the constant autographs, the E! biopics, Kid Rock asking me to get breast implants and marry him like every goddamned five minutes and the groupie sex was just wearing me out. Who knew you could get callouses from a strap-on? Anyway, I’ve been replaced by Kathy Sierra or something: Shiny Shiny remarks that I was “kicked off the list” and that they are not amused about it. For reals. Kicked off — yeah! Don’t let the LonelyGirl15 hit you in the ass on the way out, loudmouthed sex blogger! Additionally, DollyMix officially calls bullshit on the way it all came down.

Hey, competition for those four spots reserved for women is fierce. Actually, I got more than one nice email from Forbes staff and the editor saying they were sad to see me off, (prolly just being nice, aww) and hope to see me on it next year. It’s been a purposefully quiet year for me press-wise, so I’m not terribly surprised. But here’s a thought: Sarah Meyers has her own reaction to the Forbes Web Celeb list and formula, adding something Forbes doesn’t include: powerful branding and influence. It’s an interesting list. And there are more women on it. Hello.

Showering alone, the nerd thinks he’s safe. Except it’s Brandi Belle’s shower! If you don’t mind the hassle of .wmv video files (and love humorously dramatic music plus pretty natural girls and one slightly humiliated but very lucky boy), check out the new trailer we just blogged at Fleshbot for one of my favorite “clothed female, naked male” sites.

Oil and water. Hate set #1 is here.

By James Piatt — silver or pink, actually. His ultra-sexy gallery is here. (thanks, Courtney!)

Sexy geek couple: photo of Veronica Belmont and Ryan Block by Laughing Squid.

They were the nerdy ones. A little off. Quiet. They spent too much time in their heads… But now, their mad geek skillz have made them into nail-biting, thigh-clenching, blog-burning, mouse-melting h4wtness. If you could see their brains, you’d gasp “it’s so big!” before the porn music wakka-wakka could even begin.

Researched and culled all year, then boiled down with nominations and my own personal invention: the patent-pending, steam-powered, drink-dispensing, algorithmic GILF-o-tron 9000 — it’s the Top Ten Sexy Geeks of 2007.

I got an inbox full of nominations — thank you! Take a walk down sexy geek memory lane and ask where they are now (2005, 2006), as many selections were not yet web luminaries, and that’s the score. No one from the previous top ten are allowed, it’s got to stay fresh. It’s a personality-driven list. This list is my choosing: no celebrities who likely wouldn’t talk to you at a party, no voting or committee (and no exploits like hacking or stuffing), and they’ve got to have geek integrity. It’s like this: you’ve got to be able to imagine them breaking your iPhone and talking dirty about firmware upgrades — in your bed.

This year was tough: being a sexy geek is the new new new black. Example: the Girls of Nerdcore being not as nerdy as they seem.

Runners up include:

* Clunky Robot (hot geek artist, accent on the robots)
* Zadi Diaz (we’re friends, and I have *inappropriate* thoughts about Ms. JetSet, Epic-Fu and Smashface)
* Chuck Olsen (Mr. Blogumentary is also HOT)
* Bonny Pierzina (adorable and sexy host/producer of NoodleScar)
* Tantek Celik (gorgeous and seriously smart: from Technorati to Microformats)
* Vu Bui (total cutie Flickrazzi photographer of geeks and producer of NoodleScar)
* Nikki Nefarious (photographer, performance artist and webmistress/community manager for SocialKink.com)
* J.R. Blackwell (hottie writer, photographer, podcaster and contortionist)
* Brian Lam (handsome and self-effacing, intense gadget geek: Gizmodo)
* Daniel Graf (easy-on-the-eyes founder of Kyle.tv)
* Ryan Block (the editor-in-chief of Engadget, founder of Joystiq and taken: but he’s also an unrelentingly sexy geek)

I see you at the parties, on the intertubes, in my dreams. Oh, you sexy geeks — this is my dirty nerdc0re rap song with your name in the refrain, this is the regifted Google schwag I lay at your pale feet in offering — this is the fanfic I write in my head (where you or I play Angelina in “Hackers” alternately) late at night after I’ve drooled on your Twitters. Again. Sexiest geeks, in reverse order:

Photo by Lane Hartwell.

10. Kurt Collins
Deep, handsome and seriously all over the place in the 2.0, he’s behind the scenes and powering tech companies like ProfileLinker — oh, and that successful site you might have heard of, Photobucket. He’s been a developer and engineer at outfits such as cNet and is fluent in many romance languages, like DHTML, AJAX, CSS, PHP, MySQL and Ruby. Um, whatever. He’s totally hot when he’s making noises that I think are English, but I’m just sort of drooling…

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Photo via TechieDiva.

9. Gina Hughes
Chief editor and founder of TechieDiva — I can haz mad crush on you! It’s tough to read between the lines of this delicious gadget nerd’s popular blog when her photos are so distracting. A former Marine (!), code and tech-obsessed geek, and columnist for Yahoo Tech, she’s become one of the foremost female voices and experts on gadgets and consumer tech — while just getting sexier by the minute.

Photo by Joi Ito.

8. Sean Bonner
Tattooed, always up for an internet fight, relentlessly sexy, unafraid to be goofy and wonderfully funny: he’s a hardcore blogger and one of the main men behind worldwide community blogging phenom, Metroblogging. Los Angeles based, he cofounded Bode Media Inc., got the LAPD’s blog up and running, is a huge grassroots journalism advocate and has spoken about it everywhere from Wired to CBS News — and is a web prankster. His hotness and smarts combination is really sort of unfair.

Photo by Brian Solis.

7. Leah Culver
Her successful stunt was to raise money to buy a new Macbook Pro by selling surface real estate on the front of her new machine to friends and advertisers (video). But the computer science grad, lead developer and cofounder of Pownce is pixie-cute and smart as a whip. Also, it’s hard not to have a crush on a yummy girl who hates widgets.

Photo by Laughing Squid.

6. Jonathan Grubb
He’s lead design teams for Yahoo and Vodaphone, but that’s just his Clark Kent guise: the true inner sexy geek came to the fore when he cofounded and became design director for Rubyredlabs. Grubb is a restless Gemini obsessed with interaction design for mobile devices — who is also irresistibly sexy and what’s even worse, he makes cute and creepy art.

Photo by luismuna.com.

5. Tanja Andrews
Drop-dead gorgeous Bay Area foodhacker Andrews stuns with her deft, extensive knowledge of raw foods and the science of making them fun, easy and yummy — but also her superb online branding, and superlative vlogging skills. She’s funny, brainy, adventurous, devoted to her vlog and she *is* Freshtopia. Did I mention that she’s sexy top to bottom and dresses to stop traffic?

Update: New photo by Jake Appelbaum via an informant (NSFW)!

4. Dino Dai Zovi
This year, the NY-based hacker took home a fat $10K prize for hijacking a MacBook Pro; he’s also a security consultant, developer and author of papers — cute even in grainy pics, he’s prone to be credited for crazy notions like that Vista’s code is more secure than Mac’s. It doesn’t matter: he’s pretty hot, he’s got little to no online visual presence, and he cracked a Mac at a security conference. That’s trouble.

Photo via Ariel Waldman’s photostream.

3. Ariel Waldman
Originally hailing from Kansas, her recent arrival in San Francisco has been a problem — for pretty much every tech geek with a libido, male, female, silicon-based or feline. She’s outrageously sexy just by being quietly snarky-yet-sweet, not quite hiding the hot throbbing brain that has her writing for Engadget and Suicide Girls, being the community manager at Pownce, and specializing in social media insight consulting (which means she knows way more about 2.0 community interactions and P2P marketing than you do). She is also silly, and adventurous, and utterly delicious.

Photo by roadsideguide.

2. MC Frontalot
New York based (base) Frontalot isn’t a n00b to the scene, but it wasn’t until I saw him perform here in San Francisco that I felt the waves of unbridled, teeming, rampant, slightly palm-damp sexuality coming from the godfather of nerdc0re rap. (I just made that up.) That man can perform, he’s insanely panties-on-the-stage h4wt in his glasses and headlamp and tie, and he drops lines about things so well-researched and utterly geeky that after the show you’ll think you were violated in every port you didn’t even know you had by the MIT cheerleader and football squads (if they existed). Your brain and booty will be sore in all the right ways. I just know he’s too much nerd for one girl to handle. But we can try.

Photo by Lan Bui.

1. Veronica Belmont
This stunning tech veteran has seen and done more tech-related new media than you can shake a Wii at, and her breadth of knowledge about tech and tech (and gaming) culture might just distract you from her gorgeousness for a minute. She’s more than those cute talking head tech babes; she speaks with serious substance on shows ranging from The MacCast to Attack of the Show, and currently is the host and producer of Mahalo Daily. Girls like her are seldom single for long (she’s not), but it never hurts to gaze longingly at her tasty-looking… show.

Update: Adrants provides their concurrent analysis of this year’s list (!), Doc Searls posts it on his Harvard edu law blog (!), GeekLike gives the list a nod, MySpace runs it as a news item (?), Scott Beale gives linklove on Laughing Squid as does Jen Meyers of deliberatepixel — and I’ve been informed that someone tried to put it on Digg last night but that my site has been blocked by Digg. Which is weird considering that last year it was “dugg” no problem. But then, Kevin Rose was on it last year, so maybe that’s not so weird. :)

This week’s column — an opinion piece and observations on sex and social networking sites here’s a snip from No Sex Please, We’re 2.0:

I was at the SFist holiday party two years ago when I got into a fight. Local social networking site Tribe.net had decided to clean up the sex content its users were creating, enjoying and discussing in the online forums and galleries. Which also meant chasing away entire communities: Many members liked that we could have groups about all of our interests in one space — sex, guns and baking cupcakes if we felt like it. Upstairs at the fancy bash, I ran into Tribe’s then-community manager and … Well, he started it. But I finished it, and the fight made gossip columns both print and Web the next day.

Tribe.net’s sexual cleansing has just hit its second anniversary, MySpace is becoming stringently censorious in user’s e-mail and outgoing links, and there are now more flavors of social networking sites than of lube in the Castro — so it’s a surprise to hear that Tribe.net has had a sexual awakening.

Social networking sites hope to become part of people’s everyday lives, but they’re always split on sexuality. Either they’re all the way, like SocialKink.com, or sex is the easiest way to get kicked off the site. Most 2.0 sites keep their terms of use intentionally vague, hoping to never have to categorically define sex, erotica or porn. Are boobies art or porn? What constitutes an unsafe bare breast? No one knows if their boobs are evil to children or part of the beautiful cycle of life, and last time I asked mine where they bounced on the issue, I got two different answers.

Of course, this creates a confusing atmosphere where users never know if what they’re doing is right or wrong, employees try to apply an inconsistent “I know it when I see it” judgment to each situation, and relying on the community to anonymously report abuse creates an atmosphere ripe for … abuse. (…)

Link.

My pal Audacia Ray is having fun with her Blip vlog: Live Girl Review. In her latest episode, she reviews the het-female-focused, large-font lovin’ Erotic Woman website. I’ve embedded Dacia’s video after the jump (note: it’s not explicit). Highlighted episodes of Live Girl Review — highlighted by me, that is — include The Cone (sex toy), The Layaspot (sex toy) and “Headshot” (a nine minute erotic film by Blue Artichoke Films). Interesting stuff: more, please!

(more…)

This is ridiculous and hilarious — CC Bill is supposedly the PayPal for adult sites, and they process transactions for hardcore porn sites. You know, like this one. Actually, it feels good to be bad like this… Here’s the email:

> Hi Violet–
>
> I think you will find this interesting. I wrote you last week to check out
> our website. I have put a link to your blog on our recommended links page.
> I’m in the process of putting the site together, so I applied for an account
> with ccbill. The account was denied because of the link to your webpage!
>
> Apparently, way down at the bottom of your blog somewhere you mention some
> guy with a “diaper fetish.” “Diaper fetishes” are banned by ccbill, so
> based on that one mention they won’t let me process credit cards with them!
>
> It’s not a big deal–I just thought you would be interested. We aren’t
> going live for another month, and I will remove the link before then, so it
> won’t cause us trouble. I just thought you’d like to know since I saw that
> you are having trouble with some photo sharing site also. I don’t know how
> thorough their robots are, I might just be able to link to a different page
> on your site.
>
> I did point out to ccbill that there’s a difference between encouraging the
> fetish and making money off it, and a reporter writing about it, and that
> google itself will return links about diaper fetish as well–is a link to
> google also forbidden?
>
> Anyway, go figure.

Tres hilare — the list of people who link here include Forbes.com, SFGate.com, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal… but add a blog post about one totally misunderstood fetish (from my SF Chronicle column, no less), and it’s too hot in here for CC Bill.

Update: A webmaster emails, explaining that CC Bill is actually discriminatory in their linking practices, in some seriously offensively stupid ways. I guess when you’re the only business that serves adult sites, you get to be as sexist and sex-negative as you want. to wit:

> CCBill has a lengthy history of webmasters coming into conflict with
their censor-bots. For example, one of Tasty Trixie’s sites was
threatened to be cut off by CCBill for linking to Margaret Cho’s
blog, which used the word “bestiality”. CCBill also has a history of
threatening to cease processing for sites that link to Scarleteen,
since it - shockingly - provides information about sex to minors. I
fought them on that a few years ago, and after a few days of not
having processing, I got a manager to agree with me that Scarleteen
was not forcing innocent children to watch hardcore pornography
Clockwork Orange style, but other webmasters have just pulled their
links because it’s less hassle. Usually, if you fight CCBill, and
talk to enough real humans, that they’ll agree that you’re not
linking to anything that violate’s their policies. (I use jpg
banners to link to [redacted], so they haven’t caught me for that
yet. They did catch me when I used the word “menstruation”, though.
You’re not even allowed to write, “I’m on my period” in your blogs,
technically.)

> CCBill is sadly the processor or choice for most of us, since it’s
cheaper than getting your own adult merchant account and provides a
reliable affiliate program to its customers. Someday, I’d love to
leave them, but I still need to find an adult merchant bank that would
accept *all* of my websites, including my menstruation content.
(There is a European biller that accepts bloodplay, but it means
incorporating in the EU, and I just haven’t wanted to bother.)

But it looks like that’s all she had for her staff — and ZOMFG, I wonder if I met the employees that threw down at her employee holiday party (and probably threw up). Click: You’re A Mean One, Ms. Banks. (Thanks, linecook!)

Brrr! But hooray for a new, wonderful local resource: Nude in San Francisco. J’adore!

And I’m a little happier to see AP be a *bit* more respectful toward Emily Sander and her family in not calling her a “porn star”, though we still have far to go with the whole “secret” thing. Background here, snip here:

A man suspected in the slaying of a college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn performer was arrested Wednesday in Mexico, authorities said.

Israel Mireles, 24, was arrested on a Butler County homicide warrant in Melchor Muzquiz, Mexico, and was being held there pending extradition, U.S. Deputy Marshal Logan Kline said.

Emily Sander, 18, was last seen alive on Nov. 23 when she left an El Dorado bar with a man police identified as Mireles. The disappearance of the Butler Community College student drew nationwide attention after the discovery that she also led a secret life as an Internet pornography model named Zoey Zane.

Her body was found six days later, about 50 miles east of El Dorado, as police traced the route they believed Mireles took to pick up his 16-year-old girlfriend, Victoria Martens, in Baxter Springs.

Mireles became the focus of the investigation after police found large quantities of blood in an El Dorado motel room where he had been staying. Authorities have said that a bedspread that was missing from that motel room was found close to Sander’s body. (…)

Link.

It’s not even in my neighborhood.

I just saw that my first collection — bizarrely, turning into a classic — Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasies for Couples is being recommended in the Sydney Morning Herald. Thank you!

And… tonight I need to get my booty beauty rest: tomorrow morning I’m a guest on local TV show OUT Spoken TV! I’m actually more excited about being on cable channel 11 with Tim Gaskin and Donna Sachet than I was about Tyra. I told them I’d put the “B” in their LGBT sandwich. The air dates will be Mon 12.24, Tues 12.25, Wed 12.26 Fri 12.28, Sat 12.29, and Sun 12.30!

* First, I’m still deeply saddened by the death last friday of hardcore vlogger correspondent Ali Shafeya, of Alive in Baghdad. Killed by Iraqi National Guard Forces, he was two days away from turning 23, and put his life on the line to provide indy reporting first-hand about the war, as told be the people. It’s the only indy source for unbiased stories about daily life in Iraq that I know of, and I think it’s incredible that they’re getting the stories out. That’s the true gift of new media, in my eyes. If you feel me on this one, consider a donation to Ali Shafeya’s family, and to help with funeral costs. Thank you, Ali. You made a difference.

* Second, close friends on a sticky situation: I’m sure you read Scott Beale’s post about Lane Hartwell’s struggle over rights of her photographic work. Do also read Lane’s post, and Jason Schultz’s eloquent legal summary. It’s true that I’ve been asked to take content down this year and refused (okay, it happens to me every year — but it’s always content I’ve created myself, not appropriated from others). And I like to giggle at ridiculous take-down notices, especially when they’re used abusively. I also historically give *tons* of content away for free (I always will, to the chagrin of many) and I don’t bother too much if someone uses my work with proper credit; though not if they snag it wholesale and present it as their own, or as a non-consensual collaboration. My digital books are DRM-free: remix with consent, and share with conscience. But, I also don’t solely rely on my photos or videos for income (yet). I think there’s being fair and making judgment calls, and then there’s acting douchey and self-righteous about using other peoples’ work, especially when they simply try to talk to you about it — and the internet is good for nothing if not for outing jerks. Lane’s photos are her livelihood: enough said. Act like a person about it already. First rule of internet club: don’t act like a douchebag.

Afterthought: As a holiday present to myself this year, I’ll be outing a couple of douchebags here on the blog in the next week. w3rd.

It’s so nice to see a cute, San Francisco kind of girl wind up in a recent Richard Kern photo shoot. The (explicit) gallery is here.

This is no joke. MySpace is now quietly screening and censoring users’ emails for sexual language — and I’m sure other things as well, if they’re editing out phrases as innocuous as “sex toys.” I wonder what else MySpace is looking for in users’ emails. But if that’s not a total violation of private communication between adults, they’re also combing for outgoing links on members’ pages, making judgment calls, and replacing links they don’t approve of with URLs back to the MySpace home page. Silent accusers, silent judges, forced sentence and no chance for appeal. The people mentioned below are photographers and filmmakers, not pornographers or performers.

My dear friend Steve Diet Goedde blogs,

Yesterday I had written to a friend on Myspace, and I had to use the words “sex toys” in order to describe what the Stockroom sold. When they received the email, Myspace had replaced “sex toys” with ### ####. And then this morning, my photographer buddy Geoff Cordner informed me that Myspace had removed all links to his site from his Myspace profile. I tried it on my profile, and sure enough, all links to my site now direct to the Myspace home page. Umm, I think we’re living in China now.

Link. (Thanks, Thomas!)

Update 12.16: MySpace seems to be censoring LGBT organizations as well. And it’s rather appalling when you consider why they might censor the types of queer orgs they are. Here’s this email:

Violet,

After reading your post about MySpace censorship, I told my friends to
check their pages. One came back with the news that her link to
Scouting for All (an inclusive scouting organization, www.scoutingforall.org
) has been replaced with a link to MySpace’s homepage. It seems
inclusivity is now inappropriate.

And, another email report:

Hello

I thought I’d mention that I checked, and Myspace has redirected my
links on 3 of the 4 profiles I have there.

I don’t know if it’s because the content isn’t adult, or because they
haven’t gotten to it yet, but I have two links in blog posts that
were not changed, links that go to non-adult content hosted on adult
domains.

Also, Halcyon had an issue with them recently: http://twitter.com/Halcyon/statuses/501879182

FG

More info — suggests different types of URL changes, most likely to jack MySpace’s pageviews. Feel tricked when you click on a user’s link lately? (But does not explain the email censorship or make the yucky taste of LGBT link removal go away; the email censorship is no doubt a filtering program with “sex toys” listed as one of the terms for it to delete/modify.):

Hi,

A couple of months ago I was updating my MySpace, idly clicked on one of the links I had set up there and was directed to the MySpace homepage. After checking the html in the edit page, I realized that all my links had been changed. I tried changing them back, hit “save” and saw to my horror that they obviously have some program in place that automatically changes outgoing links to the MySpace Home URL. Disappointingly lame. I warned friends to check their own links and got uneven responses. Some found theirs changed and un-fixable like mine, and others (some in the same city I live in) had links that still worked. Those people have since reported back, “Oh, hey, y’know what?”

For whatever groan-inducing reason, I think this is something they’re doing to links across the board, regardless of content. My links were to my Flickr, Blogger, etc., none of which are particularly “adult” themed. Their thinking must be something along the lines of, “We can’t have all these links to the Outside. People won’t be looking at our ad banners if they’re constantly clicking away from us.” Something just as simple and stupid as that.

Bunny

Update 12.17: Here are some evil twists from two well-known sex bloggers:

The same crap happened to me a few months back: for me it was a link to my Blogger/Blogspot hosted blog that was being blocked and redirected back to the Myspace homepage. I sent three complaints to Myspace - I’ve still heard nothing back, no explanation, nothing. But I discovered that by changing the link on my Myspace page from girlwithaonetrackmind.blogspot.com to girlwithaonetrackmind.co.uk, I’ve resolved the problem. Fine for me - who can have the link redirect back to my blog- but what about all those other bloggers who use only Blogger software and whom also like to link that on their Myspace pages? Is it a total block to non-Myspace blogs I wonder?

I hate Myspace and all this has just given me another reason to loathe it more.

Zx

#

Dear Violet:

I saw your Myspace post. I thought you should know - my account was deleted last month for violating their TOS:

“Your MySpace account has been deleted for violating our Terms of Service.

This is usually due to one of the following:

* Nude images, sexually suggestive or violent photos
* Covering our banner ads with HTML
* Harassing other users
* You do not meet the minimum age requirement
* Spamming the classifieds, forums, bulletins, or other sections of the site
* Attempting to artificially inflate scores
* Scripting the site”

I don’t have any pictures except for the logo.
I said I was 100.
I certainly didn’t do any anything like spam the site or cover their banner ads.
The “About Me” section linked to the blog. That was it!

I switched to Facebook, as you know.

xxx
Viviane

What a fantastic thing to wake up to this morning — I published Erotic Role Play: A Guide for Couples last night, and the next day it’s on About.com (and an email from *another* publisher was in my inbox, eeee!). At About.com, the review and description of what I’m doing at Digita Publications is spot-on, and so flattering I don’t know if I can squeeze my hyooge head out of the door to leave the house today. Cory Silverberg did pick my brain a bit, so I’m not caught off guard, but… wow. Please do read it! I guess I need to start a “press” section for Digita… Here’s a heady snip:

I’d like to amend my previous gift lists and add something directly to the top of the list: Violet Blue’s new series of audio and digital books available via Digita Publications.

Violet is, of course, the author of dozens of wonderful sex books in print. Now Violet has put her expertise, techy-know-how, time, and money where her web-loving mouth is, creating a system that offers sexual content that’s fair, democratic, and easy to use. It’s also hot, helpful, and guaranteed to spice up your sex life.

Today I downloaded my first one, Erotic Role Play: A Guide for Couples and I’m going to be putting it in the virtual stockings of every lover I can think of. It was my first experience downloading an ebook and I have to say it didn’t hurt a bit. No sign-up fees, no special software, no commitment, just great sex advice in a versatile format. If you’re like me and aren’t quite sure why you should venture beyond your paper-bound bookstore, here are a few good reasons…

Four Reasons to Love Digita Publications DRM-free sex books

1. When you buy the books this way almost all the money goes directly to the authors. The publisher doesn’t get half, you don’t have to pay for a marketing department that never helps the author anyway, and the authors retain all the rights to their work. It’s like meeting an author and handing them $10 for their book. It feels good. (…)

Link. (Thank you Cory Silverberg!)

I’ve been working on this for a long time, and I’m so exhausted right now I’ll just give you the quick description below — but I’ll tell you, the erotica in this one is *hot*. And the text is seamless! Yay! Yes, there will be an audio version, but probably not until next year. Unless I feel like doing it sooner. Oh, you know.

Erotic Role Play: A Guide for Couples by Violet Blue is nine big chapters of tips, ideas and practical advice on how to turn up the heat in your sexual repertoire. Erotic role play is when you and your lover play roles and act out sexual fantasies: Blue details exactly how role play makes hot sex even hotter, spices up your love life when it falls into a routine, and adds playfulness and passionate intensity. If you or your lover has ever fantasized about pretending to be anything other than who you are in your daily, ordinary life, then you’re ready for the world of erotic role play fantasies. You’re not alone, as these are among the most popular fantasies shared by couples, period.

When you try out fantasy scenarios, you’re essentially playing a sexually explicit version of “make believe.” Some couples use role play occasionally for a little bit of kinky fun. Many others enjoy it as part of their regular sex lives, whether it’s one reliably hot scenario, or a variety of roles and predicaments. Playful, silly, explicit and warm and welcoming, this expertly written and assembled DRM-free ebook (three different files for everything from your Palm and iPhone to your laptop) guarantees plenty of new ideas with explosive results. Features three, no-holds-barred erotic stories where couples try Blue’s advice to a delicious finish.

Availability: Instant Download
DRM-Free File Formats (all included): .pdf (1.9 MB, suitable for all computers, iPhones, iPod Touch), .txt (160 KB, for conversion to preferred formats using programs like Plucker), .pdb (92 KB, especially suitable for Palm and Treo eReader)
.Zip File Size: 504 KB
ISBN: 978-0-9799019-5-9
Price: $10.00 (USD)

Order via PayPal if you wanna. Table of contents with details is after the jump!

(more…)

A lot of new sex books passed through the Blogger Bungalow in 2007 (besides mine, of which the list is obscenely long). I know it’s totally time to order stuff for the holidays, so if you and I were having coffee and you wanted to pick my brain for sexy readable gifts… Here’s the shortlist of ones I liked:

Explicit and extremely sexy photo books (and at least one oddity worth picking up):

* LA Bondage by Dave Naz (previews)
* Naked Ambition by Michael Grecco (previews)
* Pervy Girls: Erotic Fashion Photography by Christine Kessler
* The New Erotic Photography
* Richard Kern: Digital Kern
* Touch: Naked Girls Home Alone by Peter Gorman (image via)
* Do It Yourself Great erotic self-portraits by women.

Hot ebook:

* naked in Apartment 7 by Peter Gorman

Sex how-to:

* Healing Sex by Staci Haines (interview)
* Better Than I Ever Expected by Joan Price
* The Internet Escort’s Handbook by Amanda Brooks, via Fleshbot

Erotic fiction:

* H is for Hardcore by Alison Tyler
* Got a Minute?: Sixty Second Erotica edited by Alison Tyler
* Love at First Sting edited by Alison Tyler
* The Very Bloody Marys by M Christian (fun: gay vampires in San Francisco novel)
* Crossdressing edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, forward by Veronica Vera
* Hide and Seek edited by Alison Tyler and Rachel Kramer Bussel
* Where the Boys Are: Urban Gay Erotica edited by Richard Labonte
* Cat Scratch Fever by Sophie Mouette
* Sex With Strangers various authors
* Kink by Saskia Walker and Sasha White
* Best Lesbian Bondage Erotica edited by Tristan Taormino
* Best Gay Romance 2008 edited by Richard Labonte

Nonfiction:

* Naked on the Internet by Audacia Ray
* My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up by Stephen Elliott

Books of mine that came out this year:

* Erotic Role Play: A Guide for Couples (ebook) Read the review on About.com!
* Best Women’s Erotica 2008 (editor)
* The Smart Girl’s Guide to the G-Spot
* The Adventurous Couple’s Guide to Strap-On Sex
* Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women (editor)
* How to Kiss (ebook + audiobook + Kindle)
* Creatures of the Night (ebook + audiobook + Kindle)
* The Modern Safer Sex Guide (ebook + Kindle)
* Open Source Sex Ed: Pleasure Zone Basics (audiobook)

* Note: Kindle books are listed separately from ebooks. My ebooks are DRM-free, whereas Kindle books are not. So I don’t consider Kindle books true ebooks, as they are proprietary to the Kindle device and system. They are only Kindle books, nothing more, though a nice option for readers with Kindles.

Feeling up for a little erotica? My new book Best Women’s Erotica 2008 just came out, and it’s packed — literally, the biggest one yet — with six months’ worth of culling the very best explicit erotic stories written by women. This was to be my last book in this series, so I made it the crowning piece in the collection — though since the sales have skyrocketed and I’ve won awards every year I’ve edited this series, I’ve agreed to edit a final two more, to make it a five-year stint.

But, to celebrate this beautiful collection of highly arousing erotica, and all its highly skilled authors, I’ve selected one of the book’s gems to read for you: Rear Window by Scarlett French. In it, a woman moves into her new apartment and discovers quite a view — and it’s the first Open Source Sex podcast to feature man-on-man action. Tasty.

Click to listen or download: Open Source Sex 62 (MP3)

How straight male porn performers self-promote online.

The good, the bad and the fugly, L to R from the top…

1. Club Satan: Witches Sabbath. I don’t want to be utterly rude but this title fucking SUCKS. And not in the way we like, oh no. I’m having a hard time not taking the total failure of this schoolgirls-meet-Satan porn film personally. Mostly because with a theme like that, it shouldn’t be difficult to have a wonderfully bad schlockfest. It should be like Hammer, but where you get to see everything, right? Wrong. There are no hot rituals performed here on quivering virginal girlflesh, unless you count the time-honored ritual of people making extremely bad porn for the sake of shock value — *and* that because after I watched this film my pussy recoiled so much in anorgasmic fright that I actually became a virgin again. I think right now it’s up somewhere around my liver, hiding, or maybe getting drunk by proximity and trying to forget. But: if you think fake-blood spattered cooters goes well with the season, or the drapes, ignore my rocking and crying in the corner while clutching my well-worn House of 1000 Corpses DVD, and you can have my copy of Club Satan. Except you can’t, because it’s Thomas‘. Surprised?

2. Four Finger Club #23 I can’t review this one because it’s still stuck in my… laptop. This series is just good damn porn. Girls who like girls, they don’t look terribly porny (okay sometimes they do but their orgasms are so intense I’m not looking at their *manicures* to pass the time for a change), big things go in places that really like… big things, and frightfully real orgasms.

3. Four Finger Club #22 Same as above, but this has a nice strap-on female ejaculation scene. Intense.

4. Laughing Squid Slide Show Banned in 23 states, hunted by the DoJ, and coveted by Doggie Diner pervs worldwide. Squids gone wild! Too hot for TV. But not teh internets.

5. Naughty or Nice: Christmas Erotica edited by Alison Tyler Cute, hot and sweet collection by one of the most prolific women in the erotica biz. Totally worth it if you want to have some naughty erotica to read over the holidays: it also has a couple of nice New Years’ stories, all explicit and well-written. Lots of excellent writers I’ve published in Best Women’s Erotica, too. I can totally see myself reading “Dangerous Fruitcake” under the covers to my own dangerous fruitcake (Hacker Boy) when we escape the holiday party madness, hide out, and consume vegan spiked eggnogs, and each other, in turn.

6. The Skin Trade I really like Joe Gallant, and I think Sasha Gray is super-hot. But this film is just damn depressing, which is pretty much the opposite of what I want my porn to be. Brittle blondes with hard boobs, and plotlines where women are desperate so they perform lackluster sex work when their lives are totally failing. This is for people who romanticize gritty sex work. Just put down the vibrator and cry already. It’s well shot, but unless you wank to Requiem for a Dream, it’s free for the first person who comes through my door and doesn’t notice me slipping it in their web-trendy, annoyingly attractive Timbuk2 bag.

7. Intimate Moments: More Real Orgasms Damn Abby Winters to hell with Club Satan. Now, I know that’s going to get me a spate of mail from rabid Abby Winters subscribers, but yes, Aussie girls are hot and real, and it’s different and neat and everyone’s having fun. Pubic hair is like, wow! Awww, koala bears. I forgot what it looked like. And hey — at least I’m not making fun of the fonts anymore! See! Nice Violet! But… the cute girl on the cover is not in the film. HUGE faux pas. I want the girl and the scene on the cover. Gimme! And — bad lighting overall, long solo masturbation scenes that had me leave to go play my two favorite seasons of Buffy and then come back before a single scene was over, and… rinse, repeat. Maybe I’m all jaded and just can’t watch a girl jack off anymore. Maybe I should just pack up my pussy and go home. Except I’m already here, begging my pussy not to leave me after watching More Real Orgasms and Club Satan. Please stay, pussy!

8. Triple Ecstasy The best porn film of the year. I’m almost speechless on this one. Still can’t get past the first scene without having to go buy batteries. The girl-girl scene melted a hole in my iBook’s screen, the cinematography and editing are fucking fantastic, the chemistry is off the scale and the sex is real, real, real. The music is great, too (Chemical People!) Hotties include Kimberly Kane, Audrey Hollander, Charlotte Stokely, Princess Donna, Mr. Marcus. And my crush of the year, Pixie Pearl. (O noes! I see on her stats page that Pixie and I can never be. She is also a Virgo. It’ll never work out. Sigh.)

9. Born in a Barn The director of this documentary sent me a copy, and it’s a pretty amazing doc on human animal pony play — the real stuff, not just the glammy girls in rubber bridles and hooves that populate the internet ponyverse. I just made that phrase up. I can haz sugarcube?

10. Sex Mannequin One of my all-time favorite directors of fetish noir, Maria Beatty, made this really sexy fetish video, where a femme domme kisses and licks a sexy mannequin to life, and they play, play, play. There is a lot of panty action; much through-the-cotton pussylicking, and the rope bondage is light, clever and picturesque. My pal Michelle Aston assistant directed (yay!). I’ll admit that I didn’t totally get into this one because one of the performers looks so much like a former lover of mine as to be distracting — but the fisting scene is well worth the price of admission if you like fisting and ejaculation. It’s the most intense — yet tender — fisting scene I’ve ever seen, and now I understand how this scene made it into a recent human sexuality class.