Gender Blender is from the creators of Taxicab Confessions, and after looking at the trailer I’m dying to see it. It follows three transgender beauty pageant participants in Queen USA and Queen of the Universe contests, and focuses on their lives and relationships — and includes perspectives from the deeply caring straight men who love…
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I'm Violet Blue: author, sex educator, blogger, podcaster, GETV reporter, The San Francisco Chronicle's sex columnist, robotic artist, and a Forbes Web Celeb. Writing: Forbes, O: Oprah Magazine, RH Reality Check, and bestselling, award-winning author/editor of over 2 dozen books, 5 translations. Lectures: Cyberlaw class at UC Berkeley (Boalt), ETech, SXSWi, crisis counselors at community teaching institutions and Google Tech Talks. Podcast: Open Source Sex: Wired, Newsweek (MSNBC), The Wall Street Journal. Tech blog: techyum. DRM-free audio + ebooks: Digita Publications. I also blog at art machines and vbsf (Violet Blue's San Francisco). I am: violet at tinynibbles dot com. Represented: ICM.
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Your a fag
An ode to the masters of online commenting — hilare! (Thanks, Kirby!)
New audiobook! Sweet Heat: Explicit Erotica for Couples
I’m thrilled, thrilled to announce my new audiobook Sweet Heat: Explicit Erotica For Couples! Extra special thanks to the incredibly talented authors whose work graces the contents — and even more smiles all around for the fact that every $7 goes directly to the authors and editor. Over 2 1/2 hours of heat-themed couples trying…
A chat with Chuck Palahniuk
This is what bloggers look like after a Chuck Palahniuk interview. Image by Ryan McPherson from my Fight Club pinups photoset. The column this week is called Prelude to a gangbang: Violet Blue asks Chuck Palahniuk about his new porn novel, ‘Snuff’. However, it looks like you won’t see the title on the front page…
Want: Sega’s Ema
Over at Guardian UK they have great video from Sega of their upcoming humanoid robot, Ema (pronounced “Emma”) — designed in female form. Finally! I’ve been waiting and waiting for this particular style of bot to have boobs for what seems like ever, and I especially love how they’re spinning it as a form of…
On Citysearch: Food better than sex?
When Citysearch asked me what food in San Francisco I thought was better than sex, I was in a quandary. Do I do my sexified duty to the cupcake, or confess that I don’t think there’s anything better than the bestest most intense sex ever? Like, that you put in your mouth, anyway. But, I…
Sexual Privacy Online panel mp3
Paparazzi image by 2bizzarre. Just last March at SXSW: Interactive I organized and hosted the very popular (and totally fascinating and intense) Sexual Privacy Online panel. Today, SXSW let me know that the MP3 is now available. It’s a little over an hour long and includes audience questions — this is an MP3 you really…
Hooray for wedding day
Modelo: Karen Saez. Fotografia y maquillaje: Fernando Zapata. Asistente: Andres Vargas Today’s the day, and same-sex couples are lined up around the block at City Hall. Some, like George Takei, simply got their licenses and are planning a big fete for later in the season. In a few hours, I’m heading down to get a…
Symphony in white
“Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” —Lewis Carroll I have cried a river since I lost my precious JimmyJane Little Chroma vibrator. It was simply the best vibrator I’ve ever owned, with a close second the amazing (also rechargeable, silicone) LeLo Gigi. JimmyJane is a San Francisco based high-end sex toy company…
Bonus pretty girl gallery
…while I sit here waiting for a 30-page proposal to print so I can dig into edits, you get the super-hot gallery of Jenya that just landed in my inbox! I want one just like her, please. Also, Courtney just sent me this link to a cute and sexy video featuring David Byrne and Dizzee…