I'm Violet Blue: author, sex educator, blogger, podcaster, GETV reporter, The San Francisco Chronicle's sex columnist, robotic artist, and a Forbes Web Celeb. Writing: Forbes, O: Oprah Magazine, RH Reality Check, and bestselling, award-winning author/editor of over 2 dozen books, 5 translations. Lectures: Cyberlaw class at UC Berkeley (Boalt), ETech, SXSWi, crisis counselors at community teaching institutions and Google Tech Talks. Podcast: Open Source Sex: Wired, Newsweek (MSNBC), The Wall Street Journal. Tech blog: techyum. DRM-free audio + ebooks: Digita Publications. I also blog at art machines and vbsf (Violet Blue's San Francisco). I am: violet at tinynibbles dot com. Represented: ICM.
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Last month, we launched The Fast And Easy Book Club – our first main selection for discussion was Anne Rice’s Beauty’s Punishment (writing as A. N. Roquelaure). Now we’ve come full circle – but before we introduce June’s smutty selection(s) and give away five copies of the next main Fast And Easy selection, we’d love…
This month, The Fast and Easy Book Club’s Mistress Alison Tyler features erotica author Sommer Marsden in the spotlight. Thank goodness for America. Why? Because 3,000 miles separate Sommer Marsden and me and I truly believe the world is not ready for the two of us to get together on the same coast. Sommer Marsden…
FROM THE EDITOR: Erotica author Alison Tyler and I are launching the Fast and Easy Book Club! Alison will post 2-3 new book club picks every two weeks. One Club selection is chosen for discussion each month. To win a copy of May’s selection Beauty’s Punishment, be one of the first five people to comment…
Image of the luscious French Mina Model by NakedBy. I’m back from a long work weekend, too many technical problems. I missed you a lot. Not blogging about sex just feels *wrong*. I have big plans for this website this month. Looks like I need a good, trustworthy WordPress template hacker to help me with…
Sent from reader SW, “Would have thought, on craigslist, in New Orleans, in the Casual Encounters section, in the Women Seeking Men section, there would be something of substance right now; instead, nothing but spam.” http://neworleans.craigslist.org/w4m/ http://neworleans.craigslist.org/cas/ Um, ya: All these posts here are FAKE! (NOLA) “Show some respect for the city at least…”
Burning Man image by loupiote (Old Skool) from “the temple of forgiveness”. More of their photos are here and here. This week’s SF Chron column is the sweetly cranky Go Playa With Yourself: Violet Blue explains why sex in the city is so much better during Burning Man — and yes, I’m already getting email…
“Angie in San Francisco, CA. Made by Frank Wallis in 1997. 35mm fim scan.” Via modele.citizen. This is really not the sort of thing I’d ever expect to see on a local real estate blog — but then, I *do* know where I live. Snip: WARNING: The content in this post may not be suitable…
Ultra Records: Destination Calabria – More bloopers are a click away Many of you know I’m friend + family of SF’s Extra Action Marching Band and have been groupie #1 for over 5 years — documenting and documenting and dancing my fangirl ass off as the gigs go by. So I have a bit of…
A friend whom I share my hate mail with (she tells me it’s okay and soothingly pats me on the inbox and gives me soymilk and cookies) emailed me about this one saying, “I hope you’ll consider putting this email up on Tinynibbles — people need to understand the kind of harassment you get, because,…
Fleshmap is really, really cool. I could play with this site for hours, and also their odd nipple organizer; gotta love the Body Rebus! Fleshmap: Studies of Desire is a series of projects created by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. The two artists are known for their pioneering work in data visualization, which has been…