Good Vibrations Magazine

Writer, filmmaker and all-around fabulosa Audacia Ray (check out The Bi Apple) spent 6 months being celibate… and lived to write about it.
Over these months of celibacy I’ve felt waves of shame about my condition. What kind of sexuality “expert” doesn’t actually have sex? I’ve beaten myself up a lot about this. The [...]

On the eve of the release of Courtney Trouble’s first full length DVD – Roulette, we asked her wife and partner (in work and life) to do an interview with her so we could get to know her a little bit better!
What follows (Continued from Part 1 and Part 2) is part 3 of an [...]

Courtney Trouble has run NoFauxxx.com since 2003 making her one of the trailblazers of modern queer porn! NoFauxxx.com has over 125 unique models and over 200 photosets, most of which she took. She does all of the coding, designing, editing, marketing, and behind-the-scenes business stuff involved with the site and project. And on top of [...]

On the eve of the release of Courtney Trouble’s first full length DVD – Roulette, we asked her wife and partner (in work and life) to do an interview with her so we could get to know her a little bit better!
What follows – in three parts – is an intimate and personal in-depth interview [...]

Last week I flew down to Los Angeles to attend the one-night-only art show innovated & curated by Carlos Batts and sponsored by Topco Sales.

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 [...]

Before I moved to San Francisco & before I worked at Good Vibrations I opened a box sent to me by my then best friend & was overjoyed to see my very own Hello Kitty rocket-style vibrator! Not only did I think she was so so SO cute but the actual vibe wasn’t so bad [...]

Though imperfect I do rely on Adult Video News (AVN) for industry information –new titles, industry issues, and of course the hot goss. I usually make my way through tearing out the pages showcasing titles I’d like to add to our selection, read an article here and there and then I’m done. I have to [...]

I was checking my daily AVN.com to see what’s news in the industry and, horror of horrors!!!! The Adult Novelty Expo Awards website was (gasp) hacked into!

AVN.com said the site was “commandeered and altered in ways that ANB — publisher Tony Lovett calls “Repugnant, offensive, and contrary to all standards of civilized behavior.”
I too was [...]

Courtney Trouble, fabulous director of the upcoming Roulette (incredibly hot soon-to-be released queer porn!!) and operator of the NoFauxxx website just announced she’s looking for folks to be in her next queer-licious film! There are lots of roles to be played – sex and non-sex – so if you are in the Bay Area (or [...]

Locasexual n. An environmentalist who applies locavore logic to affection and, on principle, will date only locally. Refusing long-distance attachments and coolly calculating “sex miles,” this carbon-conscious canoodler makes love as romantic as a spreadsheet.
I was tickled to see that the Locavore revolution has an offshoot – the Locasexual movement – as defined above [...]

When I first became aware of the Female Condom (FC)I was skeptical and intrigued by the design. Just the idea that a condom would be “worn” by a female partner rather than a male partner was really novel. I’ve never tried it myself but working in our stores, I grew to have an acute appreciation [...]

Sadly I left Las Vegas early Saturday – hours before the awards were handed out. It was the first time in three years that I haven’t attended the AVN Awards and a part of me felt sad about it.
Not so much about missing the ceremony itself, though with Belladonna and Jenna Haze running the show [...]

A coworker recently passed on this Forbes article about the recession and the adult industry.
Reading this article was interesting to me – not just for the obvious I-work-in-the-adult-industry reason but also for the companies they included… Walgreens… Walmart.
Walmart? I have had the luck to only shop at Walmart once… in a small town in southern [...]

It’s not like I needed another one, honestly, as every interaction I’ve had with April Flores (GV’s April Flores Videos) has been a pleasure and in addition to be gorgeous April is a genuinely lovely person to spend time with. But that isn’t the reason I love her today. Today I love April Flores for being the model for the first plus-sized realistic masturbation doll. There have been plenty of gag gifts featuring larger ladies but nothing done in a manner that could come close to being sex positive and body positive.

Here’s just one more reason why Good Vibrations loves former porn star Sharon Mitchell! After performing in the adult industry for years she saw that healthy care wasn’t a focus and wanted to change that. She is an amazing advocate not only of sex-positivity but of healthy porn-making! The information she provides and the work [...]

This was posted on AVN.com and I thought it might be helpful to cancer survivors and their partners.
As a SESA I spoke with many women trying to find their way back to intimacy after surviving cancer. It wasn’t just the changes in how their bodies reacted to stimulation but it was also about re-learning how [...]

Clicking through websites this morning I came upon the article below. And I feel sick – it just isn’t right. That’s the bottom line but there’s so much more to it. People are so afraid of the “other” and it’s easier to hate and persecute than acknowledge that we are all fucked up. It’s easier to hate and fear and persecute than to acknowledge that differences are okay. And I’m frustrated because it’s all coming out so pedestrian but it’s so important.

Just came across this gallery on the Declare Yourself website. The site advocates folks voting and has videos, articles and other fun & hip pro-registering ways.Photographers Mark Liddell and David LaChapelle added what could be called “shock value” by choosing some well-known models and using different bondage-esque methods to show their freedom of speech being [...]

I read Dr. Glickman’s blog post the other day and giggled.
Ever since having a conversation with a dear friend about the Palin porn he envisioned (filed under MILF of course) I’ve been waiting for the industry to pony up and release a Palin-inspired title. And after watching last night’s debate… I was hoping somebody would [...]

We here at Goodvibes have loved the Ramp for years so it’s great to see it finally hit the big screen! Not to say this is a 15 minutes of fame… oh, no…. this bedroom device gets around… and the world is better for it!

New York, NY (September 12, 2008) – As federal marshal [...]

It’s my intention to attempt to see a toy for all the ways it can be enjoyed – from multiple perspectives if you will – who can use it, who will it appeal to, how many ways can it be used aside from the intended market. I often find that the best toys [...]

I just saw this article posted on AVN.com. What a fantastic mainstream recognition that safer sex can be great sex! In addition to all of the other amenities provided to the athletes it’s awesome to know that condoms and safer sex are also valued. Not to say the reasoning (see “embarrassment” quote below) is always [...]

The We-Vibe – one of the more innovative designs to hit the adult industry in a while. Recently we’ve seen a lot of new vibrators come out that have increased functionality, dual motors, digital interfaces… as well as many other bells and whistles. We’ve also see variation of the same be release one after another. [...]

Walking to work I saw paper after paper, national and local, touting the good news that gay marriage is now officially legal in California. The historic coupling of Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin was San Francisco’s first to be married after being together for over 50 years… honestly it brought tears to my eyes. Not [...]

AVN gives Kudos to Sex Educators
This great article came out in AVN recently and I wanted to make sure our readers also got a chance to read it. Written by Jamye Waxman it gives a brief history of sex educators in our industry. It’s refreshing not only to see these people acknowledged but to see [...]