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As seen on Oprah – Sex Toys and Porn

By Kuono • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Sex Toys

You know times have changed from the days Good Vibrations opened our doors over 30 years ago. Today, sex toys are PICTURED on a popular mainstream website Oprah.com. This is big news in sexual pleasure land over here at GV. A world where sex toys are freely displayed without shame, and talked about as an [...]



Toys that Look like Cartoons

By Kuono • Nov 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog

There are so many toys which resemble cartoons. Non-realistic vibrators with heads like dolphins, bodies like bears, kitties, or bunnies, and of course the Duckie.
There’s a “What’s Your Favorite” game going on over on our Facebook Page. Today’s game is “What’s Your Favorite Head“?
From realistic to abstractly rounded, there’s a variety of shapes that may [...]



Help Courtney Trouble’s Reel Queer Production films get into the AVNs

By Kuono • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Blog

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!
DEADLINE:  Friday Oct 9th 5pm (PST)
Register to Vote for Pre-Nominations!
Get Site access:
1. Establish an AVN.com user account:
http://www.avn.com/account/register/
2. Request access to the AVN Pre-nom site:
http://www.avn.com/prenom-request-form/
Vote! Here are Good Vibrations Recommendations [...]



$pread Magazine wants YOU for their next Issue

By Kuono • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: Blog

$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 [...]



Log into Queer Pornsite NoFauxxx.com for Free Oct. 1

By Kuono • Sep 30th, 2009 • Category: Blog

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 [...]



How Did the Condom End Up on the Bus? Muni Diaries Erotic Contest

By Kuono • Sep 29th, 2009 • Category: Blog

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 [...]



AIDS Walk with Evil Angel, Belladonna, Keni Styles, and more

By Kuono • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog

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 [...]



Kaleidoscope 09 – 3rd Annual National People of Color Cabaret

By Kuono • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: Blog, Burlesque Caberet, POC

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 Launches New Video Productions

By Kuono • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: Blog

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 Gets a Night of Trouble: Queer Erotica

By Kuono • Sep 21st, 2009 • Category: Blog

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 [...]



WANT TO BE IN SEX ED MOVIES?

By Kuono • Sep 21st, 2009 • Category: Blog, Carol Queen

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.”



Georgina Spelven Presents – The Devil in Miss Jones at Lumiere Theater!

By Kuono • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Film Fest

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 [...]



IXFF Spotlight: Narcissister

By Kuono • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Film Fest

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.



April Flores’ Love Toy Art Show

By Kuono • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Events

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 [...]



IXFF Spotlight: Paul Festa

By Kuono • Sep 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Film Fest

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.



BDSM – It’s Not What You Think!

By Kuono • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Film Fest

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 [...]



IXFF Spotlight: The Crew of Mislaid

By Kuono • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Film Fest

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!

GV: [...]



IXFF Spotlight: Allegra Hirschman

By Kuono • Sep 11th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Film Fest

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.



IXFF Spotlight: Éric Falardeau

By Kuono • Sep 10th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Film Fest

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



The O-spot? A Tantra Lover Looks Deep in the Throat

By Kuono • Sep 3rd, 2009 • Category: Blog

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 [...]



IXFF Spotlight: Travis Mathews

By Kuono • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog, Film Fest

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 [...]



Labor Day Sale at our Stores

By Kuono • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog

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 [...]



IXFF Spotlight: Nara Denning

By Kuono • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Blog, Film Fest

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″!



Welcoming Jackie Strano, Chief Operating Officer to Good Vibrations

By Kuono • Aug 31st, 2009 • Category: Blog

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 [...]



New TSA Regulation makes Flying the Friendly Skies not so friendly to Trans/Gendervariant Travelers

By Kuono • Aug 28th, 2009 • Category: Blog

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 [...]