Month: March 2010

Violet Blue on Oprah by Laughing Squid/Scott Beale * This week I’m on The Oprah Winfrey Show (again!) talking about women and our changing relationship with porn; I’m delighted to say you can watch the re-aired show this Thursday, March 25. It’s a truly fantastic interview, and I can tell you that Oprah — the…

Whenever I’m asked in interviews why people sexualize technology, I have a number of reasons on offer: tech is incorporated into our lifestyles, it gives us new ways to connect and communicate with others and that can be emotional or intimate, it offers privacy, allows us to explore our inhibitions, we can seek answers to…

Image by the amazing Exey Panteleev. Women’s magazines have a bad rap these days. They get ridiculed for being out of touch with today’s woman, overusing sex to sell units, promising sexual tricks they can’t possibly deliver, missing the mark by oversimplifying male sexuality, and trading on female insecurities to move magazines. We’ve had a…

Titled ‘nickelodeon porn’ on PornHub, this is actually an excerpt from Polissons et Galipettes or Rascals and Somersaults, as seen in the vintage clip compilation “The Good Old Naughty Days” spanning 1905-1930. I love it: so much smiling and joy around erotic adventure. Many of the clips were made to show in brothels as stag…

The paintings of Saturno Butto are not for everyone; they are rife with dark erotic mysticism and heavy Catholic themes, and combine a world of wantonly obscene medical fetish with BDSM relationship scenarios — things that alone would be intense, but together will surely strike a never, somewhere. Which, I think, makes them at turns…