My Chron column is *now live* on SFGate, yayayayay!!!! It looks ultra-fabulous OMGWTFBBQ!!! This is amazing! Even if this is the only one ever, it is a huge step for sex-positivity, old and new media, San Francisco sex culture (and SF notoriety in general) and accurate sex information — not to mention that it feeds and fuels my lifelong goals to normalize sex and change the cultural conversation about sex within my generation. The fact that entities like the Chron are taking steps to be more inclusive with participatory media, like bringing bloggers like me on is a big deal. It’s really showing that bloggers (and vloggers) are now leading changes in media — now that the old media have lost their stranglehold on distribution channels (and therefore on dissemination of information) the playing field is becoming more level and information distribution is becoming democratized. Still can’t believe I’m doing this.
Of course, because it’s me (and it’s sex), it didn’t happen without issue. At the last minute, the publisher got freaked out about my links and so (for now, I think) my column will be running without links to any of the sites or topics I’m talking about. Yeah, it’s *weird* for an online column… And dude — they don’t even link to Tiny Nibbles from my column’s page. But the Chron and I are continuing to talk about it and the topic is by no means closed. My advocates there see the silliness in it too, so go ahead and make fun of them — and know that people who work there will agree with you. Why did they pull my links? I’m not sure. It’s obvious that whoever at the top spazzed about a sex column’s links are people making decisions who have no idea about how the internet works. I mean, who the fuck reads articles without links in them? And how much shit will I get for writing about someone and not linking to them, even though I’m not doing the HTML? But hey, old media is catching up and I’m excited to be part of it. That they allow someone like me — blogger, vlogger, pro-porn pundit, unconventional female, antagonistically sex-positive — in their pages is quite a coup, regardless. It’s just the beginning. I’ll just keep applying more lube to the Chron, and see if I can get to *second base*. Or at least teach the people in charge who wigged out how to spell “NSFW”. It’s *their* learning process.
In the meantime, I’ll post all the relevant links to my column here each time my column goes up.
So groove on my column for the Chronicle/SFGate, Violet Blue’s Open Source Sex: Club Kiss. Relevant links not included in my column are:
* The female Elvis impersonator works at Stockroom.com
* Viva Las Vegas
* Folsom Street Fair
* Eyes Wide Shut
* Club Kiss
* Foreign Cinema
* Club Kiss atmosphere
* the music at Club Kiss
* apply for membership at Club Kiss
* online testimonials for Club Kiss
Update: Ryanishungry interviewd me in my living room 1 hour before my column went live! It’s an incredible post. Watch it here.
Update: Scott Beale has the sweetest post up about my new column at Laughing Squid (he used one of my favorite SRL/Beale photos, too!) Thank you!!!!
Update: Whoah — check out the Chron’s press release.
Update: I’m getting lots of positive email and congratulations, thank you! But I also just got this gem via SFGate feedback email: “Violet Blue column puts you in the ranks of x rated rags, disgusting.”
Update: Werd — I guess they’re keeping me. I just got my RSS feed.
