And now’s the time to order if you want them to arrive in time! I just wrote up a Horny Valentine’s Gift Guide on Fleshbot that includes delicious pink leather bondage kits, solar powered and recycled materials sex toys, great sex toy kits for couples, cool sex art t-shirts, chocolate dilddo casting kits, DIY pussy…
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 author and journalist on sex and technology, hacking and security, porn for women, privacy and bleeding-edge tech culture. She is a columnist for Engadget; she's an educator, speaker, crisis counselor, volunteer NGO trainer, and the author and editor of over 40 award-winning books. Blue is also an advisor for Without My Consent, as well as a member of the Internet Press Guild.
I am a lapdog of satan
This morning my inbox greeted me with emails (thank you!) linking to the Yahoo news article “Kids’ Ability To Access iPod Porn Raises Concerns“, where my podcast Open Source Sex is held up as an example of a “dirty download”, “pornography webcast” (only if it’s done right, dear reader). Apparently I’ve been somewhat targeted by…
Blogging is not disposable culture
…. even if it *is* an instant gratification information delivery system. Even if it sucks and the blogger is a retard, it’s a record of how they suck and are retarded — or that some *thing* of value, for at least one person out there, found language. It’s also why you should always credit the…
Thoughts at the end of my day
Finished a chapter and started another today, phew. Still dwelling on the virgin creams. Our bodies, our selves. Watch this darkly humorous video of Brit girls getting their bikini areas waxed: Bikini Waxing! (funlol.com) Then check out the *real* our bodies — hey, are you fat? Is your body perfect? In one week, Media Nipple…
Unsafe sex product rant, part gazillion
I’m at home writing and researching a book that’s due at the end of this month, and I’ve entered into a sex ed area that is a real sore spot for me. You’ve no doubt read my gripes and warnings about the widely available and highly profitable anal numbing creams and “shrink” creams, but have…
Who’s cuter?
The smiley girl with the nice nipples in the new free Hegre gallery? Or the bunny? Yes, I’m still on the Hegre free galleries affiliate email list; I joined it to research affiliate programs for a users’ guide about online porn I have coming out soon. I don’t agree with Hegre’s recommended link practices, but…
Valley girls
Last night I went to the Valleywag launch party, but I didn’t go alone. Oh, no — in fear of suffering through being the gender minority at these tech things yet again, I summoned a posse of nine women to attend with me/meet me there. That’s right, Violet Blue has a posse, just like Andre…
New link madness
I was supposed to be working for like ten different people today and instead I added a very long list of (overdue) links to my site — they’re groupe-groped on my front page right now, and already folded into my links page. I’ve also made a new note on my link policies, making clear what…
Interesting stuff to do with your eyes
For New York’s Gothamist the Lusty Lady herself, Rachel Kramer Bussel, interviews sex educator Ellen Friedrichs — who wrote the intense and uplifting essay “South Bronx Sex Ed” in my book Best Sex Writing 2005. And proving that she just can’t sit still, Rachel hovers for a minute to tell us how many pies she’s…
Watch Xeni Tonight
Get your copy of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex ready and watch Xeni debate porn, the “Child Online Protection Act” and your privacy rights on CNN tonight. Feel free to thump Judith Levine’s excellent book every time someone says something stupid about porn creating child molesters and Xeni reminds them…