Today I woke up to an email from Apple, saying that they wanted to talk to me about keeping Open Source Sex — my podcast — in their iTunes directory. After a minute of phone tag, I had a half-hour conversation about sex podcasts, iTunes, their TOU and me. We made agreements to keep my…
The post in which I admire San Francisco Planned Parenthood’s nice tool
I mean, my local Planned Parenthood Golden Gate has a terrific tool-themed commercial — with a very sexy construction worker babe in the starring role and a *great* idea for how I should be storing my safer sex supplies and sex toys. Here’s a link to watch the .mov video and one to watch the…
TSA porn
On wednesday, I will walk up to one end of a long line of men. Sometimes there are women, but it’s always mostly men. They are there to watch me, and I am there to be watched. I start at one end, smile at the first man I encounter, and begin. Slowly. Carefully, I take…
Latex fetish, iTunes, nude contortion; another day in my inbox
Judging the Vloggies
Irina Slutsky has asked me to be a judge at the upcoming Vloggies! She actually said last night, “Blog that I asked you to be a judge and that you said yes.” This is going to be a *lot* of fun. Vloggercon 2006 was one of the best conventions I’ve ever attended for a million…
Still life with cupcake
I’m at home today finishing up an erotic anthology that doesn’t come out until June 2007, and the stillness, arousal from reading hot stories and spreadsheet was all making me crazy so I took a photo break. The foggy light is exquisite right now. I didn’t want to rotate the photo. I’m holding my stockings…
Sexy and shaved
Caught myself drooling over the smoothly shaved selections in the latest free hi-res Hegre galleries to land in my inbox, so I thought I’d share. As usual, don’t buy, just enjoy the free stuff, because that’s what I do. Porn should be free anyway. My favorites this week are the South African outdoor shots with…
Hipsterotica
Thomas sends me hipsterotica, which is brilliant, snip: “You take off your silk screen Bansky tee and leave it on the vintage arne jacobsen chair. You turn up brooklyn vegans sirius radio set-Cloud Cult is on. We sprawl out on the rug we bought at the Renegade Craft Fair a while back–it was my favorite…
The best little whorehouses in Second Life
My pals at YesButNoButYes email to tell me about “a new piece we have up – part gonzo journalism, part erotic fiction, as we go undercover in the online world of Second Life, and discover the pleasures of the virtual ladies of the night. The piece is called ‘The Best Little Whorehouses in Second Life‘.…
A Chorus Of Lethal Machines Sing Congratulations
Wow, the response to my Chronicle news* is overwhelming and humbling! For instance… The blogs: Xeni at Boing Boing posts “Meet the SF Chron’s new sex columnist: blogger Violet Blue” * Scott Beale at Laughing Squid posts Violet Blue, The New Sex Columnist For The SF Chronicle * Jonno at Fleshbot pings me softly in…