Month: March 2006

I just got an email from a reader asking for male masturbation sleeve lube recommendations to go with a new toy he wants; I just don’t understand why a guy would be worried about the wasabi and ginger themed lube that comes with this blue Juicy Sushi Masturbator? I recommended Eros Bodyglide silicone for a…

Last night I went to Nerd Salon and had lots of fun listening to my friends talk about code (totally over my head), my pal’s Berkeley engineering robot project (got that one) and then when I just couldn’t take it anymore I rode molecular gastronomy geek and food hacker (and friend) Marc like a pony.…

I have a new obsession: YouTube. I’m playing around with YouTube’s subscribable tags right now, and came across this funny German commercial spoof and thought that since Kathryn and I are working like sexy little monkeys on my blog today, I’d experiment with my first embedded video in a post. It’s silly, but I love…

Hooray for Girl With A One-Track Mind, who won the 2006 Bloggie award for “Best British or Irish Weblog”! It’s such great news, as she’s a really cool chick (I had a beer or five with her in London last year), and it’s right before the release of her upcoming book (Girl With A One-Track…

How To Surf Porn, Safely

Learn how to surf porn safely, avoid popups, viruses and unethical link practices, how to safeguard your privacy online, and much more in the new permanent sidebar link, safe porn surfing. Here, I list the bad things that porn (and travel and pharmaceutical) sites do, things you can do to avoid them, how to clean…

Beer + new Logitech headset + hot erotica + friday night melancholy = late night podcasting! Quickie: “The First Stroke” by Erica Dumas, from my new book Lips Like Sugar: Women’s Erotic Fantasies. Here, a woman tries out her new strap-on and takes control with her boyfriend for the very first time. Yum. * Link…

My pal Alison Tyler has alerted me to Open Source Sex in the April issue of Marie Claire magazine! They recommend my podcast in their “sex confessions” section, saying: “Sex By iPod: One of the most popular sex podcasts is the Open Source Sex show by sex educator and writer Violet Blue. Blue calles her…

Many of you know I’ve been keeping an eye on the censorship fobiles of Boing Boing’s coverage of Secure Computing, as I explained in my “Websluts, Powered by Google” post, the language and interpretation of online censorware is determined by the people who create and run the wares. But what I didn’t anticipate is that…