From the monthly archives:

September 2013

Don’t despair having an unsexy Kindle: a new Kink Your Kindle post is here. My newest picks for the season’s hottest lit-smut and must-have explicit sex books will kinkify your little Kindle – with no one the wiser.

Every pick on the list below has explicit sex, and the range spans from true-love romance with hardcore sex all the way to some seriously filthy porn – all with superlative writing. Expect compelling stories, top notch authors, tense sexual realism, and exciting characters. Look for well-crafted narratives, erotic power play and no dull climaxes.

  • Dark Secret Love: A Story of Submission ($10.59) by Alison Tyler
    I love this book. Dark Secret Love is a modern-day Story of O, a 9 1/2 Weeks-style journey fueled by lust, longing and the search for true love. Inspired by her BDSM lifestyle and based on her private diaries, Tyler creates a scorchingly hot work of tense dominant-submissive fiction, a meta-novel with very real characters whose sex is so passionate and unpredictable, it’s impossible to stop turning pages once the sex starts.
  • The Juliette Society ($8.89; UK) by Sasha Grey
    One night, at a club, she meets at a man who leads her into a strange world. And soon she is drawn toward the Juliette Society, an exclusive secret society in which all the deepest, darkest fantasies are explored. But for those who join this world, there is no turning back.
  • Open: Five Filthy Bisexual Erotic Stories ($3.49; UK) by Tenille Brown, Sommer Marsden, Sophia Valenti and two more
    Excellent mini-collection. Open features five filthy bisexual erotic stories by some of today’s top writers in the field. These sultry pieces focus on f/f/m pairings in a wide array of situations.
  • The Voyeur ($2.99) by Kay Jaybee
    Wealthy businessman and committed voyeur, Mark Parker, has a list of 13 fantasies he is intent on turning into reality. Traveling between his London flat, his plush Oxfordshire mansion, and Discreet, his favorite BDSM club; Mark is helped to realize his imaginatively dark erotic desires by two loyal members of his staff – his personal assistant, Anya Grant, and his housekeeper, Clara Hooper.

  • Someone Else’s Skin ($2.99) by Elizabeth Coldwell
    An erotic novel with fantasy, time travel, BDSM, bondage and restraint, spanking and ménage themes. When Annie Harrison is hypnotised for an article she’s writing, she finds herself in the body of Jai Galloway, a 23rd-century eco activist who plans to go back in time and save the earth’s atmosphere from being destroyed. Loving what her new body can do, Annie is soon living two existences – one with her kinky musician boyfriend and one in the future, where she learns all the tricks of sex as a man. But the more time she spends in Jai’s body, the more threat she faces of being trapped there forever…
  • Hidden Dragons ($4.99) by Emma Holly
    If you miss Game of Thrones, don’t miss the tragedy of the series, but want a tense fantasy story with deliciously written, explicit sex (by the top erotic paranormal writer in the business), you won’t regret buying and reading this book. “She transports us to her world of Resurrection, a pocket of magical creatures and fae hidden in the mundane realm of humans — a portal between the not always so friendly fairie realm and the human’s earth. How do you get the hunky were-boy you crushed on in high school out of your system when he shows up at your door a jaw-dropping, drool-worthy police detective? And just how seriously should you take your father when he tells you dragons still exist?”
  • Dirty Thoughts From the Back of the Room ($2.99) by ten authors; Write Sex Right
    A great little collection of ten stories (and one essay) comprised of flash-fiction, written about – and at – a conference.
  • Sticky Fingers ($5.99) by Alison Tyler
    One of my favorite explicit novels, ever. A very sexy noir-style romp through San Francisco where the main character is a jewel thief. There are many vivid, well-crafted sex scenes, spanking scenes, threesomes, orgies, and more. The private detective in the story who trails the main character is right out of a Chandler book.

  • Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us ($11.04; release is October 8) by Jesse Bering
    “You are a sexual deviant. A pervert, through and through.” We may not want to admit it, but as the award-winning columnist and psychologist Jesse Bering reveals in Perv, there is a spectrum of perversion along which we all sit. Whether it’s voyeurism, exhibitionism, or your run-of-the-mill foot fetish, we all possess a suite of sexual tastes as unique as our fingerprints—and as secret as the rest of the skeletons we’ve hidden in our closets.
  • Ashely’s New Owner ($3.99) by N.T. Morley
    Lovely young Ashley is an obedient and willing slave, owned and trained by her Master, the wealthy and powerful Rafael. An insatiable bottom with an appetite for exhibitionism, bondage and sex. Ashley fulfills her duties with great enthusiasm, enjoying everything her Master and his friends have in store. She is happy with her submissive life at fetish parties, in dungeons, and even in strangers’ bedrooms. But her Master and his’ friends have limits and Ashley has yet to feel completely fulfilled. Without warning, she is snatched from her home by a group of strange men who spirit her to a secret dungeon for the kind of working-over that Ashley has only fantasized about. Ashley has no doubt that this is some new game from her Master – but is it for her pleasure, for punishment, or some kind of “test?”
  • Best Erotic Romance 2013 ($9.99) edited by Kristina Wright
    This collection of romantic sexcapades has a killer lineup of authors – many contributors to this book are personal favorites. If you’ve ever dug a romance film or rom-com, but wanted to actually see the characters have that hot kind of rip-your-clothes sex that only people in love can do, then this diverse collection of stories will definitely satisfy you.

Don’t forget me! I have a new book!

  • Adventurous Couple’s Guide to Sex Toys, 2nd Edition ($10.09) by Violet Blue
    “With a practical, sex-positive approach, she leads readers through the maze of sex toys on the market, explaining the many options available, including different materials, care and cleaning, and how to see through exaggerated marketing claims. Along the way Violet offers tips on creative usage and ideas for introducing sex toys to a relationship: how to ask your boyfriend to use the blindfold in your bedside drawer or how to surprise your wife with a saucy gift without getting your face slapped (unless that was the point).”

Want more books to choose from? Find more in some of my previous Kink Your Kindle lists:

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Alberto Vargas in W4B Magazine

by Violet Blue on September 27, 2013

This caught my eye: W4B Magazine has a mini-feature on the great Alberto Vargas (click on the image to get to the gallery feature). In case you’re not familiar with his work, Vargas was a famous 1940s-50s pin-up artist – who, I just discovered, had some pieces that were naughtier than the pin-ups typically featured as examples of his work. Oh, and the feature has a bit of interesting biographical info I didn’t know, either :)

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  • Gawker was wrong: no, it is not legal to walk around Sweden masturbating in public. But Gawker likely got their info from the Daily Mail, which cited a mistranslation as evidence to prove that, from now on, it will be totally fine to wander the streets of Sweden masturbating. Great job, Daily Fail.
    You Can’t Just Walk Around Masturbating in Public, Swedish People (VICE)
  • This post. A thousand times this post. Also neatly dismantles the harmful idea (attack tactic) that one person having a trigger is a legitimate reason to exclude someone else from an event.
    if trans women aren’t welcome, neither am I (sexgeek.wordpress.com)
  • There are dos and don’ts to getting a security clearance. Lying is out. But being a stripper? Might not disqualify you. Seems the guy was interested in a job that requires one, but worried that his job history — which included stripping in college, as well as a gig he hopes to get shedding his clothes at Secrets DC nightclub — might be a problem…
    Stripping no obstacle to security clearance (WaPo, thanks Cyrus!)
  • Bitcoin brothels are here. Birmingham, UK based escort agency Passion VIP now accepts payments in Bitcoin – making it the world’s first. Article includes sex work rates in bitcoin and a small history of bitcoin’s sloooow adoption into porn.
    The world’s first Bitcoin escort agency (ZDNet)
  • “In the lab, by artificial stimulation, it is possible to trigger female orgasm in virtually any primate species.”
    FYI: Do Animals Have Orgasms? (Popular Science)

  • New York is about to start treating legal cases about prostitution the same as sex trafficking, and this is not going to be a good thing. “The initiative comes at a time of growing consensus among criminal justice professionals across the country that in many cases it makes more sense to treat people charged with prostitution offenses as victims rather than defendants.” I’ve included a link to a great, thoughtful and information-filled post about the effects of anti-trafficking actions on legit sex work.
    New York Courts Aim to Steer Women From Sex Trade (NYT)
    Thai sex workers: Anti-trafficking Rescues are Our Biggest Problem (The Naked Anthropologist)
  • An interesting reaction to the proposed ISP-level porn block in the UK by a mother who calls herself a “prude.” “I have an eleven-month-old son, and while some might say it’s premature, I’ve begun thinking about how my husband and I will handle the topic of porn with him.”
    I Won’t Be Banning Porn For My Son (TIME.com)

  • The wonderful Jesse Bering writes, “It’s striking how such an emotionally loaded word, one that undergoes almost no change at all for the first 1,000 years of its use, can almost overnight come to mean something so very different, entirely eclipsing its original intent. Exactly how did this word ‘pervert’ go from being a perennial term for the ‘immoral religious heretic’ to referring to the ‘immoral sexual deviant’?”
    Is it time to get rid of the word pervert? (Aeon Magazine)
  • Photo gallery (NSFW): “In Beyoglu, Turkey, behind the trendy Istiklal street, where few tourists go there are the transgender sex workers. They are still fearful of walking around the streets of Istanbul, though their customers are from all segments of male society.”
    Turkey’s transgender sex workers hoping for human rights (Demotix)
  • Scared stiff? A new attraction at a Pennsylvania “scream” park aims to scare the pants off thrill-seekers before they even enter it. Shocktoberfest, a “haunted scream park” in Sinking Spring, Pa., has added an attraction called the “Naked and Scared Challenge.” For $20 per person participants can experience the haunted house while being completely naked.
    ‘Naked and scared’: Haunted house welcomes nude thrill-seekers (TODAY)

  • The screencapped dirty limericks written by a pseudonym’d PornHub commenter throughout this post are via this Tumblr post which has collected many more.
    Limericks Found In PornHub Comments (Pick My Brain)
  • Disproving last week’s headlines about “sexual jihad” is one thing – one very important, necessary thing that everyone should know about. But putting it behind a paywall is… shameful. Good thing I realized I could read the truth about what’s happening to Tunisian women and Syrian soldiers when I put the article into Instapaper or read it through Google News. “It’s the story that launched 1,000 headlines. And it’s not hard to see why: Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou announced last week that Tunisian women were traveling to Syria to wage “sex jihad,” where they were having sex with “20, 30, [or] 100” militants, before returning pregnant to Tunisia. There’s only one problem: There’s no evidence it’s true.”
    Are Young Women Really Racing to Syria’s Front Lines to Wage Sex Jihad? (Foreign Policy)

Main post photo: Tiffa Bly in this gallery by Julien Vallon on Nowearland.

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Eye Candy: Quickies

by Violet Blue on September 25, 2013

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[Video] Sealab 2021 Sex Video

by Violet Blue on September 25, 2013

Is the Sealab 2021 Sex Video really a hardcore porn scene with Sealab characters? Yes.
Is it high quality? Er, no.
Is it paced like a German existentialist film? Yes.
Will this ruin Sealab for you? If you are a Sealab fan, this is nothing.

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Eye Candy: Best of Babes

by Violet Blue on September 24, 2013

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Sex News: Tristan Taormino’s condom stand, breast weights, sexual jihad

22 September 2013
A Kiev-based agency has developed iron weights shaped like breasts. It’s a real product. Breast Weights: A Bro-tastic New Standard In Agency IP (Fastco Create) Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare has blocked Looo.ch and added it into the Registry of Forbidden Sites. The site recently […]
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Eye Candy: Pretty Porn Friday

19 September 2013
Valeria - Longhaired Come Desires - Dido Angel All Wound Up - Veronica Radke Delphine - Best Ride of Her Life Samantha Bentley - Provocateur Klara and Mia - Lick and Finger Judy and Amirah - Rimming Yenny and Tess - Sapphic Erotica Denis and Victoria - Sexy Feet Anita and Nick - Morning Romance Josephine and Den - Sexting […]
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Sex News: Author Sasha Grey, Masters of Sex comes early, X-Art sanctioned, LELO’s legal trouble

17 September 2013
A federal court in Wisconsin has sanctioned a lawyer for adult film producer Malibu Media (also known as X-Art) for filing lists of "disturbing lewd, unusual and unredacted titles of pornographic films allegedly also downloaded by the defendant" but not produced by Malibu, in eleven lawsuits. Judge William Conley said […]
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Make cyber, not cyber: From cybersex to cyberwar on io9

16 September 2013
This article is a must-read, and is one of my longreads picks of the week. Annalee Newitz knocks it out of the park in The Bizarre Evolution of the Word "Cyber" - a big, juicy read that looks at how the term "cyber" went from "cybersex" to "cyberwar" within the […]
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Flickr has threatened to terminate my account

15 September 2013
So after seven years, two public censorship battles, 11,308 photos and 6,724,739 views, @Flickr wants to wipe me off their service - again.— violet blue ® (@violetblue) September 14, 2013 Remember the first time? Forbes: Flickr Censors Violet Blue (2007) Below is the email I got from Flickr, and below that is my […]
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Sex News: Yale’s nonconsensual sex, Eat24 porn marketing, Disney twerk, smiling penises

14 September 2013
What happens when a country renowned for its homophobic and extreme religious beliefs opens up about bedroom practices? An Englishwoman's Guide To Ugandan Sexual Customs & Marriage Rituals (Sabotage Times) In a push by the Federal Government, US universities are required to strengthen their policies and punishments with respect to sexual assault. […]
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Eye Candy: Pretty Nasty Porn

14 September 2013
Shana Lane - All the men, in a warehouse Liza Del Sierra - Deep Anal Anissa - Three men in a parking lot What She Wants - Capri Anderson Morning Wood - Veronica Radke Give It To Her - Kristall Rush Maci - Casting Couch Heather Night - Casting Couch Connie Carter - Sunny Morning Victoria Blaze - Room […]
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Ellen Stagg’s cosplay calendar deal

13 September 2013
While I've always been a bit frustrated with Brooklyn-based porn photographer Ellen Stagg's technical implementations and marketing approaches, I've nonetheless remained a huge fan of her work since as far back as 2010. Stagg has a talent like no other, and her photosets of fetish models, porn performers and erotic […]
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Eye Candy: Best of Girl-on-Girl Babes

10 September 2013
Maria and Brittany - Pleasure for Two Zoe and Reena - Bathroom Stories Valentina and Anita - Playful Girls (main post photo, above) Catie Parker, Megan Salinas - Devour Claire Dain, Eileen - Awakening Dido A, Eufrat Mai - Vertigo Blue Angel, Kacey Jordan - Oceanfront (image above via) Lola, Nella - Lickin' and Fistin' Vanda and Tiffany […]
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Sex News: Arse Elektronika, Porna Awards, Google vs. F1′s Max Mosley

10 September 2013
Cool! HuffPo UK interviews director Petra Joy, whose film A Taste Of Joy just won a Porna award 2013 from Dusk!, the only adult TV channel for a female audience. Porn Film Director: 'The Revolution For Women Is Happening Right Now' (HuffPo UK) YAY! Our favorite sex/art/tech festival Arse Elektronika has posted […]
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Eye Candy: Best of Babes

9 September 2013
Caprice - Sweet Pleasure Sophia - Just Relax (main post image above via) Rihanna - Hot Fingers Sara Luvv - Words Can Not Describe Hayden Hawkens - Beautifully Designed (video above, do click to view full-size; I'm contacting the webmaster about inline embed issues) Tara in The Beat Goes On Vicca in Afternoon Tea Katherine A - […]
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Soft sexiness: Marco Michieletto is not a photographer

5 September 2013
Italy-based Marco Michieletto states in his bio that he's not a photographer, but instead tells us "I just enjoy taking pictures." However Michieletto prefers us to label him suits us just fine, because his talent at capturing moments of erotic beauty in photos that truly know how to perform artful […]
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Tensely erotic: Ballerina on knife points in En Puntas by Javier Pérez

5 September 2013
This is one of those posts where the subject isn't sex or pornography, and so doesn't follow the rules here per se. Yet I think you'll agree that En Puntas (2013) by artist Javier Pérez is erotic for a few good reasons - especially if you're inclined toward any of […]
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Sex News: Terrible sex kits, Parliamentary porn requests, Jizz lube, Asia Adult Expo

4 September 2013
This is one of those 'hell of a post' posts, that isn't necessarily news, but you won't want to miss it. And as a journalist who writes about sex and porn, and also bare-knuckle boxes with tech's most influential PR departments, I think the PR reference is bracingly right on […]
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