enough with the nonoxynol-9 already

1 February 2007
Two items today about the toxic lube/condom additive Nonoxynol-9 -- one is the sad news that tests on an HIV prevention gel for women (or rather, the pentrate-ee) have been halted due to an increase of HIV infection as a result of using the gel. Argh. Would have been great […]
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this week, the v is for vendetta

1 February 2007
My Chronicle/SFGate column this week is Web Celebs and My Rainbow-Flag Bikini -- tagline, "Violet Blue spanks Leo LaPorte and John Dvorak. Hard." A reader alerted me earlier this week that I had been dissed on Leo LaPorte's podcast This Week in Tech (a reader who also wrote an eloquent […]
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sex toy company adam and eve’s official statement about sex toys with phthalates

31 January 2007
I just got the press release, cut and pasted after the jump. I'd take anything about the rest of the industry as a hopeful grain of salt, with a dash of kudos to A&E for moving forward. Let's hope (A&E President) Phil Harvey's "focus on the customer" extends to dumping […]
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wednesday nibbles

31 January 2007
* I'll start with this verrrrry interesting non-sex item that I hope doesn't stay low on the radar, Teen accuses record companies of collusion, snip: "A 16-year-old boy being sued by five record companies accusing him of online music piracy accused the recording industry on Tuesday of violating antitrust laws, conspiring […]
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like SRL’s Big Arm nonconsensually humped a disney ride

30 January 2007
Oh, Engadget. My blog wants to do the same thing to you. Check out Robotic arm rides, 5 cents. One SRL member commented, "What fun, with such an expensive robot. It appears that the programmer didn't fully calculate the floor clearance, but all's well that ends well." (Thanks Adam! Reference: […]
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eon mckai and the sfpd

30 January 2007
Yesterday I snapped this adorable pic of the adorable Eon McKai when we had coffee for like four hours yesterday. The irony of this photo is that we were just talking about 2257 raids and the police when the cops walked in... There's another hot one here, and I also […]
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hot fuzz — I can’t wait!

30 January 2007
My pal London Boy (who is actually Australian) just emailed me a link to preview trailers for the next film from the Shaun of the Dead crew -- Hot Fuzz! Sadly it's not a sequel, but it does have many of the same actors from both Spaced and SotD, in […]
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myspace and the sex offenders

29 January 2007
I was scanning the news and saw this story, MySpace donates sex offender database to US center, and I thought, groggily over coffee, hm, that bugs me... why does that bug me... hmmm, sip... Snip: "News Corp.'s popular Internet social network MySpace said on Monday it will donate a national computer […]
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worth 1000′s mac photoshop contest

28 January 2007
I seldom link to the Worth 1000 'tests, but this Mac one is very fun indeed. Of course, I love the naughty ones like the (done, done and done yet again) iBrator, iSuppository the iPump (oh my!), and iCondom. Cute! Now we just need a strap-on kit -- the iPeg?
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is ms word sex-negative?

28 January 2007
As many of you know, this weekend I'm finishing up a sex guidebook, The Adventurous Couple's Guide to Strap-On Sex. Over the years I've noticed some funny things around Word and spell-check. Mostly, I have to add a lot of words, from "prostatic" to "Feeldoe". But I've noticed that Word […]
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do ducks have nine lives?

28 January 2007
OMG! A few posts back I confessed my love for ducks and posted the story of the lucky duck that survived the gunshot wounds and refrigeration -- and now she's had another brush with death and survived! Her name is Plucky, and she's apparently sensitive to anesthesia. But what has […]
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[audio] open source sex 52

27 January 2007
Snip from my post, "Something I haven't announced is that I just quit editing the Best Women's Erotica series -- so the one I'm working on (2008) will be my last. The 2007 version has to be one of the best erotica anthologies I've ever done (or read, if that's not […]
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penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems

27 January 2007
A reader emails jauntily late on a saturday night, "Hi Violet, You might find the fusion of geek and genitals presented at everything2 amusing. Alternatively you might merely find it tragic, I don't know." Tragically, I present a snip: "Putting these together, the average amount of information per ejaculation is 1.560*109 […]
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a distraction

27 January 2007
My deadline is making me crazy. So I started this. I'll add more later tonight.
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where I finally understand the whole ‘humping the washing machine’ thing

27 January 2007
I've read a significant amount of erotica that involves washing machines. I've never questioned the validity or enjoyment that passes between girls and bathtub taps; but often while reading masturbation tales I've just sort of puzzled and shrugged when people suggest that a girl might hop on a washing machine […]
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[audio] open source sex 51

26 January 2007
I really missed podcasting. And what better way to distract myself from a friday night -- and a whole weekend -- given over to my book deadline (hating, hating softly), and no hot date in sight? (Okay, I have a hot date next week. But still. I whine.) Snip from […]
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eff’s pioneer awards

26 January 2007
The deadline is looming for submitting nominations for the EFF's 2007 Pioneer Awards. If there's someone you'd like to see recognized by this badazz organization as a leader of the electronic frontier, someone who is actively "extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology", lube up your mouse […]
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wild lesbians will eat AVN: this week’s column

26 January 2007
This week in teh chronic I waxed about the GayVn's coming to town next month and the hot new (virtually unrecognized by AVN) wave of dyke porn -- as seen in local pomo homo porno company Pink and White's ouvre and upcoming flick. Read all about it (and see nasty […]
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uc berkeley: jason schultz’s internet law: “indecent speech on the internet”

26 January 2007
The Berkeley law students might have been shocked when I said "ass', or maybe when Thomas said "mindfuck", but a couple of them truly registered shock when I explained to them the day to day realities of 2257 laws and privacy. I said, it's interesting that 2257 adult content record-keeping […]
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digg users are indeed mean bastards

25 January 2007
You know, one of my posts got "dugg" recently and I was overwhelmed by the cruelty of the comments -- and I have a fucking thick skin. Nice to know by reading Publishing 2.0's Not All Traffic Is Created Equal that it's not just me having a thin-skinned moment. (Thanks […]
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