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Who’s Kinkier?

By smartyboots • Oct 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Let’s say you’re looking for someone to tie you up and flog you – are you going to have better luck finding someone who can help you out at an Obama rally or a McCain fundraiser? If you are haunted by this question, as many Americans are, we’re about to do you a big favor. [...]



Pirates 2: Stagnetti’s Revenge reviewed at Popporn

By smartyboots • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: Blog

Check out this extremely piratey video review of Pirates 2 at Popporn! Sadly, I can’t embed the video, so just go over there (but only if you’re not at work because it’s totally nsfw). I just discovered Popporn and I think they’re my new favorite porn review site. Why? Let me count the ways:

host wearing [...]



video games – doing their part to make porn stars look realistic

By smartyboots • Oct 14th, 2008 • Category: Technology, humor

In case you were wondering why your little brother likes video games so much, The Escapist has a great article on the history of boobs in video games. And if you don’t believe their assertion that “digital boobs are the unsung heroes of the graphical arms race”, then you should check out X-Play’s review [...]



xkcd is going to put us out of business

By smartyboots • Oct 10th, 2008 • Category: humor, science

At least in terms of sex position guides – I mean, who needs A Complete Guide to Sexual Positions when you have the brief, yet informative, NUMERICAL guide? Eat your heart out, kama sutra.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to limber up for 1n(2π). It’s gonna take a while.



Adult Fail

By smartyboots • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: humor

So me and Kuono were at 6th and Mission in San Francisco, on our way back from a meeting. It’s a little seedy there, and somewhat aromatic. I know that combination evokes memories of tasty dinner rolls, but it’s not that kind of seedy and aromatic. There’s an “adult store” on the corner and while [...]



Olympics joke

By smartyboots • Aug 24th, 2008 • Category: In the News, humor

A man went over to his girl’s place for a little bit of nookie between the sheets. He presented her with three choices of condom — gold, silver, or bronze.
“Silver,” she said.
“Why not gold?” he asked.
“Because I want you to come second for once!”
(You may benefit from adding this at the end.)



We’re glad to have you back where you belong, WALL•E!

By smartyboots • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Trans Sexuality, pop culture

Check out Kate Bornstein’s great post on robots and gender in WALL•E.
I’m completely smitten with WALL•E, this summer’s Pixar/Disney offering. But the last thing I expected to see in my friendly, heterosexual upper east side Manhattan neighborhood movie theater was a feature length cartoon about a pair of lesbian robots who fall madly in love [...]



Small Favors reviewed at Pulp Secret

By smartyboots • Aug 13th, 2008 • Category: Books & Videos, pop culture

Those lovable goofballs over at Pulp Secret comic podcast reviewed Small Favors: Girly Porno Comic Collection by Colleen Coover (also the author and artist of the cleverly titled Small Favors 2). Of course, they loved it, because it is awesome. Small Favors is the second book reviewed in the episode below (about three minutes in):

Comics [...]



how good vibes is going to save America from the Republicans

By smartyboots • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Blog

Turns out former presidential and vice presidential nominee John Edwards had an affair with a young filmmaker while he was campaigning. A friend alerted me to this, and I was initially really surprised at how angry she was about it – we both pretty much believe that what people do in the privacy of their [...]



Is this sex test graded on the curve?

By smartyboots • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: In the News, Trans Sexuality, science

Oh boy! It’s time for the Olympics again – I think of it as a time of gratitude. Usually I take this time to reflect on how grateful I am that San Francisco didn’t get chosen as the site for the Olympics, because I like to keep my daily commute to under three hours each [...]



heavy PET-ing

By smartyboots • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: Technology, science

According this recent article in Scientific American, new brain research shows that “At the moment of orgasm, women do not have any emotional feelings”. Although the SciAm article takes a broader view of it, discussing the cycle of arousal and biological basis for desire (the article is totally worth reading), I’ve seen at least five [...]



It’s not too late

By smartyboots • May 19th, 2008 • Category: humor

I can’t believe I missed the big day! Fortunately, there’s still time to celebrate the reason for the season.
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/gRhPeJ3uzOc" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
Brought to you by Mr. Jonathan Coulton, who also sings songs about your zombie coworkers.



the internet ladies want your sex to be arty

By smartyboots • May 14th, 2008 • Category: science, video clips

Something old and something new in arty sex on the internet for you! It rhymes!
Firstly, I can’t believe I’m the first GV blogger to find Green Porno! Oh frabjous day! I wish I could embed one of the movies in this post, but I can’t, so you’re just going to have to go and see [...]



looks like a win to me

By smartyboots • May 9th, 2008 • Category: humor

Has my dog done this? Of course – the tall one, not the short ones, who are sweet angels of sweetness, and who are too short to get into the toy box. I came home one day to find her on her bed with all the silicone toys in the house, one of which I’m [...]



Two great tastes that taste great together

By smartyboots • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Technology

Net neutrality and losing your virginity – what on earth could they have in common?
What is net neutrality? It’s the principal that the network provider (that is, your internet service provider) shouldn’t be allowed limit the content their clients have access to online – otherwise, if your ISP was owned by Time/Warner, they might not [...]



why porn works

By smartyboots • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Porn, science

Have you ever thought about why porn works? Seriously, why does seeing other people engaging in sex acts make us physically prepared to engage in sex ourselves – that is, why does it turn us on? Obviously not all porn turns on all people, and men are supposedly more responsive to it than women, but [...]



speaking of design

By smartyboots • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: humor

Wondering why I’m showing you this logo? Tilt your head to the left and look at it -

Maybe the designer for the UK Office of Government Commerce would like to come work with us here at Good Vibrations? It seems appropriate, it being Masturbation Month and all.
Apparently the good people of the at the OGC [...]



Cephalopods of Love

By smartyboots • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: science

I dreamt about cuttlefish last night. I was up late watching an episode of Nova about cuttlefish called Kings of Camouflage, because that’s just the sort of nerd I am. Fortunately, my dreams were all about them growning spines and changing colors, and not about their unfortunate resemblance to Cthulhu, the the great old one [...]



The Classics

By smartyboots • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: Sex Positivity, pop culture, video clips

Okay, first you have to watch the video. It’s okay, I’ll wait…

You know what I like about this clip? Even though the joke is supposed to be “heh heh horny old ladies”, Bea Arthur, Charlotte Rae and Katherine Helmond totally OWN that tired premise and make it awesome. (The less said of Sally Struthers [...]



Continuing Education

By smartyboots • Mar 24th, 2008 • Category: Trans Sexuality, pop culture, video clips

Oh internet, is there nothing you can’t do? You bring me funny cat pictures and restaurant recommendations, allow me to download old Kelly Hogan albums, and now you offer me the opportunity to get schooled by Calpernia Addams, who is apparently on the tv machine!

No, seriously, you need this. If you haven’t been around [...]



Had sex?

By smartyboots • Mar 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Sex Positivity, oral sex

Maybe it’s my conservative upbringing, but it never occurred to me until Monicagate that giving head might not count as having sex. I probably would have had a lot more fun in high school had I been aware of that distinction.
This lack of clarity isn’t only about faithfulness, either. I’ve known a number of women [...]



Ill-conceived toys, indeed.

By smartyboots • Mar 13th, 2008 • Category: Blog

This ill-conceived toy brought to you by the goons at SomethingAwful.com



Best Erotic Comics 2008 – review

By smartyboots • Mar 6th, 2008 • Category: Books & Videos

This isn’t going to be the one hundred millionth review of a comic collection to say that “comics aren’t kid stuff anymore” or some such nonsense. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade you know that comics (or “sequential art” if you’re a graduate student or a New York Times reporter) [...]



Linkatorium

By smartyboots • Feb 29th, 2008 • Category: Blog

“The ONLY 100 percent effective method for avoiding car accidents is to ABSTAIN from driving until marriage.”
Abstinence-Only Driver’s Ed via Feministing
If you like science fiction or comics, you should just go ahead and bookmark queer and nerd friendly science fiction blog io9 immediately. They’ve kindly assembled a roundup of the “craziest aphrodesiacs in science fiction” [...]



coworker commences blogging

By smartyboots • Feb 26th, 2008 • Category: Technology, diy

Kuono has finally convinced me to blog, rather than forwarding neat things I find on the net to her. It will undoubtedly be a big time-saver that will result in increased efficiency, a rise in the GNP and a chicken in every pot – a rubber chicken, if nothing else.
Did someone say “rubber”??? Speaking [...]