I’m so excited about Waking Vixen bringing her book tour for her fabulous, history-making tome Naked on the Internet to San Francisco that I interviewed her about being an ultra-fabulous sex blogger in today’s Chron/SF Gate column. It was either that or buy a dozen cupcakes and gleefully, hysterically roll in them. Which now may actually happen, because I’ve managed to lure Dacia into staying here at the Blogger Bungalow with me while she’s in town. No little adorable frosted baked good within city limits will be safe! Or adorable frosted humans, for that matter. Two sex bloggers, too much porn, digital cameras and a weekend? Sexy nerds, beware. Snip:
Sex writing has grown, and grown up on the Internet, to the point where there are hundreds and hundreds of sex blogs. Maybe thousands. Not even porn blogs or porny splogs, but actual, explicit, literary sex blogs where people write about their fantasies, experiences and philosophies of sex. Name your flavor, down to the most overly specific fetish (nose bondage, anyone?) and there are at least a dozen bloggers showing and telling (but mostly telling) stories about their experiences, with communities of commenters and sidebars of blog-rolled sex-blog pals. No A-list sex-blog lineup would be complete without putting New York fetish model, sex worker and sex educator Audacia (“Dacia” to her friends) Ray (wakingvixen.com) somewhere near the top of the heap.
Ray’s start in the world of sex began when she became a researcher for the New York Museum of Sex. A gifted, articulate and fiercely honest writer unafraid of writing about difficult and highly personal topics, she started Waking Vixen (“Audacia Ray is no sleeping beauty”) back in 2004. Her blog became one of the more legendary, must-click stops in the sex blogosphere, and now she’s the editor of feminist sex-worker magazine Spread, a contributor to several blogs, a porn director and an author whose new book “Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration” is a groundbreaking report on women, sex and the Internet. There may be no other person who knows more about women’s sexual expression, and their experiences being sexual, online today. (Full disclosure: Ray, unbeknownst to me, featured me several times throughout the book.)
Because she’s that kind of girl, Ray launched the book and hit the road on a grrl-powered, DIY book tour across America. July 10, Audacia begins conquering San Francisco — let’s hope she has at least one salacious adventure a day while she’s sexing and blogging on our fair Barbary Coast. I pestered Ray to see what she’ll be up to when she’s here and what it would take to get her to nibble one of our fabulous cupcakes.
Link.
Of course, they didn’t link to her site (I’m sorry Dacia). And someone with sticky copyedit fingers changed the correct spelling “$pread” to “Spread”. Oy.
