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 [...]
Joan Price, author of Better Than I Ever Expected just reviewed Jimmyjane’s Form 6 Vibrator on her blog.
Jimmyjane is part of our Luxury Sex Toys collection, and is known for creating beautifully designed, award-winning sex toys. The local SF company recently won Best in the Bay from the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Joan’s review was picked [...]
The San Francisco Bay Guardian just released their Best of the Bay 2009 Awards. It’s so exciting to see so many friendly faces celebrated! From Sex & Romance:
BEST COCK RING FOR THE CREATIVE CLASS
What’s wrong with loving a product for its design? That’s really why Apple fanatics love all things “i.” And that’s why we [...]
Not too long ago, Courtney Trouble released her highly anticipated film, Roulette. Read her 3-part interview and click through for her a look at a behind the scenes gallery.
The young director (who has been running NoFauxxx.com since 2002 and who won a Feminist Porn Award last year) is now gearing up with Reel Queer Productions [...]
We’re thrilled to announce some great news — GoodVibes.com won AVN Novelty ‘O’ Awards 2009 for Outstanding Online Retailer – for our exceptional service and sales! Our Senior Buyer Coyote Days was at the awards and she has this to say:
“It was such an honor to win in a category with such an amazing range of [...]
SF Pride weekend has come and gone, and everyone at the stores and main office are winding down and getting back to the daily flow of operations. We thought we’d share some pictures and experiences with you, thanks goes out to our Marketing Department and all our customers, vendors, and staff. And our float won [...]
It’s that time of the year again to share our love for Good Vibrations, especially for folks here in the San Francisco Bay Area who know our physical store locations well.
So, please Vote for Good Vibrations in the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s 2009 Best of the Bay Readers Poll!
Log on to http://www.sfbg.com/bobpoll2009/ and nominate us [...]
$pread Magazine has just announced a Call for Submissions and like always, the magazine addresses important issues in the Sex Worker community. Take a look, submit your story, or go and subscribe to $pread.
Please circulate widely! All questions, pitches, and finished pieces should be sent to contribute at spreadmagazine dot org
*Hot Topic: What about the [...]
Good Vibrations has won the SF Weekly Best of the Bay 2009 Readers’ Poll for Best Sex Supplies Store.
Throughout the years, the SF Weekly recognized Good Vibrations as the a place couples go shopping before making the move and has highlighted GV as the Most Intelligent Sex Shop, with “the best array of sex toys [...]
Natalie from Kinsey Confidential noted our Masturbation Month, thanks to a post from Kelsey at Bitch Blogs.
“Every year in San Francisco there is a Masturbate-A-Thon to raise awareness and funds for safe, accurate, comprehensive sex education. Fun fact: The record-holder in this event masturbated for 9 hours and 58 minutes straight! Now there is a [...]
Joan Price, author of Better than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty, and blogger on BetterThanIEverExpected.Blogspot.com has some pretty great things to say about The Cone Vibrator.
She writes, “My first introduction to the Cone Vibrator was at the 2008 AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists) convention. Lively and handsome [...]
Just blocks away from GV Headquarters, protesters are gathering for support for loved ones, personal grievance and connection, and large media recognition against Proposition 8, which added a new section (7.5) to the California Constitution stating that “Only Marriage between a Man and a Woman is valid or recognized in California.” That measure was passed [...]
Good Vibrations will be donating a percentage of the sales from last week’s Celebration of Women’s Health to organizations that have aided women in our community. The two organizations that will receive these donations are WOMAN, Inc. and Planned Parenthood in Brookline, Massachuettes. We’d like to extend a huge “Thank You!” to all our customers [...]
Our Indie Erotic Film Festival is making waves, and just got written up in the Cleveland Scene — Cleveland’s Cedar Lee Theatre is one of the stops for the festival’s “Second Coming Tour”. Here’s the excerpt that includes an interview with Coordinator Camilla Lombard.
Reel Cleveland: Cedar Lee Gets Erotic
[Cleveland Scene]
The sexual double entendres are endless [...]
For This just in from the fantastic Camilla in Marketing:
Good Vibrations is proud to announce IXFF: The Second Coming Tour, a national road show of the Independent Erotic Film Festival’s best shorts. This Spring, Good Vibrations is selecting the very best of past entries from its Independent Erotic Film Festival (IXFF) and taking it on [...]
Ani Niow is one of the featured creative minds at “A Touch of Pleasure” an exhibit for National Masturbation Month, curated by Madison Young and presented at Femina Potens Gallery in San Francisco. The exhibit runs through the 31st. More about the exhibit follows below, beginning with Ani’s fantastic Steampunk Vibrator.
Ani Niow’s Steampunk Vibrator
Photo: ladycartoonist.com [...]
The news is in from the Feminist Porn Awards, held annually in Toronto and presented by Good For Her.
We’ll be doing an feature spot on each award winners to dive in and give you even more information about each film.
To kick it off though, here’s the entire list of winners.
2009 Feminist Porn Awards Winners
Hottest Kink [...]
Good Vibrations Loves Belladonna, and the award-winning porn star and producer loves good vibrators! (Read Our interview with Belladonna). She attended the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo and hopped on camera with Switched as a Senior Sex Gadget Corespondent to check out two booths — LELO and We Vibe.
At LELO, she handled the sleek Iris Vibrator, [...]
In honor of Earth Day, Good Vibrations and our favorite food blog BrokeAss Gourmet (BrokeAssGourmet.com) united to offer a really amazing Ecorotic gift basket, worth more than $500 to the winning submission of the sexiest 3-course locavore dinner you can for 2 people costing $35 or less.
BrokeAss Gourmet Picked a Winner!
GIveaway Winner Steffany Farros
It was [...]
This looks like it’ll be a hot flick. A queer/lesbian porn is being filmed in NYC this summer and they’re looking for more talent, particularly the Femme variety.
(via JizLee.com and Fleshbot)
TAXI
Single White Femme, LLC is on the lookout for sexy women to star in a hot, new project called “Taxi”, shooting in New York City [...]
Looking for LGBTQQI books? Trying to find erotica? Curious about sex books to learn more about how to please yourself or lovers?
The book selection at Good Vibrations is full of books about LGBT sexuality and erotica, and adult-themed content.
Spurred by the recent online commotion now known as #amazonfail, we’ve created a special link that [...]
One of the artists in connection with the gallery exhibits that run in our Polk Street Good Vibrations is involved in a project calling for Bisexual Artists. We thought we’d pass this along — please feel free to repost and spread the word!
I am a graduate student in the Sexuality Studies program at San Francisco [...]
Over the weekend, Amazon.com dropped the sales ranking of a number of books pertaining to sexuality — of adult-themed literature such as The Joy of Sex, and LGBTQQI/Queer themed books.
A recap: On Friday, two gay-themed romance novels disappeared from Amazon’s sales rankings — they were still listed on the site, but could not appear on [...]
Legendary porn actress Marilyn Chambers has passed away over the weekend. She is best known for her enthusiastic performances, which included both men and women, in films such as Behind the Green Door and Insatiable.
The Advocate included a bit of history around Marilyn’s past:
Chambers was [...]
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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 [...]
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