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We’re very excited about Reel Queer Productions, part of our sister company Good Releasing. Help propel director Courtney Trouble and her films into AVN fame!
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Vote! Here are Good Vibrations Recommendations [...]

$pread Magazine is putting a call out for models and contributors for their next Issue, 5.3. The deadline is November 1st.
$PREAD CALL FOR MODELS AND CONTRIBUTORS, ISSUE 5.3
In our upcoming issue, we’re exploring age and aging within the sex industry. Feature pitches (ideas for articles of 2000-3000 words) should be sent to contribute@spreadmagazine.org. We’re particularly [...]

Tomorrow, Courtney Trouble of NoFauxxx.Com and Good Releasing’s Roulette, Nostalgia, and Speakeasy is giving away something for nothing: porn! If you’re curious about her work and the website she’s been running for the last 6 years, check it out:
NoFauxxx.Com will be open to the public for the entire day of October 1st. To get into [...]

Good Vibrations will be donating to a very cool event coming up next month — so mark your calendars, San Francisco! — put on by Muni Diaries.
MuniDiaries.com is a place for Muni riders to read and share tales on the bus. They publish submissions from anyone who rides SF’s beloved public transit system. The idea [...]

Team Evil Angel is so close to reaching their $2500 donations goal they can almost taste it. The team, consisting of pornstars like Belladonna, Keni Styles, and Sinnamon Love has raised $2250 so far. Most notably, Keni Styles and fans have raised over $1K towards the drive, and it’s just super exciting in general to [...]

San Francisco Cabaret fans (and students) rejoice!
This weekend is the 3rd Annual National People of Color Cabaret, Kaleidoscope, and if the performers aren’t hot enough get this: they’re teaching workshops, too! You have got  to check out the classes, a must-do for any burlesque or cabaret performer and a good time for fans! The performance [...]

Good Releasing (www.goodreleasing.com) is sister company to Good Vibrations and has hit the stands with three outstanding video lines and a slew of new titles that put healthy and hot sex to the forefront of the adult video industry.
With directors like queer alt princess Courtney Trouble, kinky feminist pioneer Madison Young, creative photographer/filmmaker extraordinaire Carlos [...]

Atlanta just got hotter and a whole lot dirtier when Courtney Trouble rolled into town.
If you’re in Atlanta, you’re in luck. Get out tomorrow night, Tuesday September 22nd, for clips from Roulette & Nostaliga, and the screening of Speakeasy.
This free event is one night only, and it is an East Coast Premiere for Speakeasy! Filmmaker [...]

From Dr. Carol Queen, Ph.D: Are you an exhibitionist? Up for video appearances in the new how-to line I’m going to begin doing soon? These explicit sex education movies will be full-length, will appear monthly, and will cover lots of different topics. I’ll be casting two or three couples (and sometimes singles and more-than-twosomes) for each one, and in addition to that, I want each movie to include clothed (or, for that matter, unclothed) people talking about the topic.”

A while back, GV staffer and blogger Angelxtacy wrote about Georgina Spelvin’s visit to our Valencia SF store. Well, she’s back! Georgina Spelvin will be presenting The Devil in Miss Jones at the Lumiere Theater as part of the IXFF (Independent Erotic Film Festival) and will be doing Q&A herself following the film. It’s at [...]

I do a great deal of visual research at the Picture Collection in the Public Library in Mid-Manhattan. During one session, I found a 70’s era photo montage in the Erotic folder of photograph of a naked woman collaged into a photograph of a hot dog bun. The artist had also squirted red and yellow paint onto the image. The image struck me in diverse ways–the eroticism, the gross-ness, the rough technique, the offensiveness.

Earlier this year, our Senior Toy Buyer had the joy of attending luminous pornstar April Flores’ art show while in LA. She wrote:
The concept was to take the April Flores Love Toy (aka a cyberskin mold of April’s lower torso) and make a plaster mold. That mold was then given to eight eclectic Los Angeles-based [...]

Late in 2002, when John Cameron Mitchell solicited 10-minute audition videos for his “Sex Film Project” to create a nonpornographic, sexually explicit movie (the final product would be called Shortbus), I had no idea how to make a film. But I had an idea for an audition video, and I had iMovie on my computer, and I had a deadline, so poof! I became a filmmaker.

We’re all pretty excited about the screening tomorrow night of “BDSM – It’s Not What You Think!” The film’s participants, as well as producer Erin Palmquist will be there for Q&A, and so will Dr. Carol Queen, Ph.D who will be hosting the event.
What’s more, Dark Garden — who makes amazing corsets — will be [...]

We caught up with a couple of finalists for the Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Fest, and asked them about their films that will be premiered at the competition screening at the Castro Theatre on September 17th (for more details and tickets, visit gv-ixff.org). Here’s our GV Magazine IXFF Filmmaker interviews: the crew of Mislaid!

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This is Allegra Hirschman’s Directorial Debut, but Co-director April Hirschman has directed several other popular shorts. Shady Bi, a short spoof on advisory warnings told of the the “dangers” of bisexuals to jeopardize the tentative bonds of monosexuals (straights and gays) to get along. Shafted is different because it is character driven while still being campy and fun.

Cam Shot (2008, 4 min.) is a black and white erotic and fetishist film. I wanted to pay a tribute to the amazingly gorgeous women in expressionist film. Therefore, it is a visual essay about lighting, contrast, texture, and make-up. It was filmed in front of a black velvet backdrop with a single spot on the actress (a Lowell 500W). She has dark and white make-up over her whole body so the contrasts are really visible. I think the ratio is almost 16 to1!!! I almost exclusively shoot my projects on Super 8 mm film

Suzie Heumann, founder of Tantra.com has written “The Curious Association Of The G-Spot And The Upper Palate” at the Huffington Post. She shares her fascination with a neurological relationship and similarity between the mouth and the G-spot (and also the P-spot?).
The erotic feeling of sucking, whether it be a lollipop, water bottle or beer or [...]

We caught up with a couple of finalists for the Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Fest, and asked them about their films that will be premiered at the competition screening at the Castro Theatre on September 17th (for more details and tickets, visit gv-ixff.org). Here’s our GV Magazine IXFF Filmmaker interviews: Travis Mathews, director of [...]

Are you in the San Francisco Bay Area this Labor Day Weekend? If so, you’re in luck! (Well, if not, you’re STILL in luck because we also have a website sale going on… just for you.)
The Bay Bridge is closed, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t take an adventure on BART or just stick [...]

We caught up with a couple of finalists for the Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Fest, and asked them about their films that will be premiered at the competition screening at the Castro Theatre on September 17th (for more details and tickets, visit gv-ixff.org). Here’s our GV Magazine IXFF Filmmaker interviews: Nara Denning, director of “NEUROTIQUE NO.4″!

A big welcome to Jackie Strano to Good Vibrations! She’ll be joining our team as our Chief Operating Officer.
Some of you may recall Jackie from her work with the award-winning lesbian porn company SIR Productions with her partner Shar Rednour. (With titles such as Hard Love & How to Fuck in High Heels and Bend [...]

Organizations and leaders in the transgender community have been talking about the new TSA “Secure Flight” regulations which started last week nationally and plan to affect international travelers in a few months, including many of us here at Good Vibrations who identify as Transgender, Genderqueer/Gendervariant, and our customers.
While the news of the added security measures [...]

Olivia and Good Vibrations are giving away a cruise for two on Olivia’s “All Lesbian” Caribbean Sailing aboard Holland America line’s ms Ryndam departing from Tampa, Florida on October 15, 2009.
Good Vibrations’ Staff Sexologist and Chief  Cultural Officer Dr. Carol Queen, Ph.D will be on board, hosting a sexy lecture series on hot topics about [...]

We love Pink & White Productions‘ DVDs. Directed by former SESA Shine Louise Houston, they combine high quality production with real queer sex that is a refreshing combination of authenticity, sexiness, and humor. We’ve followed Shine’s films from The Crash Pad, to Superfreak, to In Search Of The Wild Kingdom, to her latest Feminist Porn [...]