Year: 2006

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…

I don’t blog too often about women’s rights in this space because I feel that it’s *ovbious* we’re humans, you know, like men, and should have the same rights. But much to my shock at the fact that I’m even writing this — now that abortion has become illegal in one of the United States,…

I tried to get a former employer (ahem) to do this a couple years ago (when I first saw the Tabooboo sex toy vending machines). Because even though I have access to free sex toys for review, I’d totally blow cash money on kewl toys while drunk in bars and flirting with the closest cute…

I wish my friend’s kid had liveblogged the Oscars last night: http://toiletpaperonline.typepad.com/the_blog/ursen/index.html “Oh, I can’t believe it Pete!”/”He’s just burping”/”This Godzilla is much bigger than I thought it would”/”Shouldn’t you just start freaking out?”/”You want some beer?”. Just change “Pete” for “George Clooney”, and “Godzilla” for “Jon Stewart Jumps the Shark” and call it a…

It’s raining and cold, and I’m sitting in front of the TV watching the Oscars — because Jon Stewart is the host. It’s sad that he left his funny in New York; couldn’t someone who cared overnighted it to him? And sent some to the rest of everyone trying to be funny, who are so…