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Who’s Kinkier?

smartyboots — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:41:10 +0000

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. Good Vibes is harnessing the power of statistics to determine once and for all whether Republicans or Democrats are the kinkier political partisans*. You can help us in this proud civic endeavor by heading over to our survey and answering 10 quick questions to help us empirically determine once and for all whether you should be looking to the left or the right for the best kinksters in the country.

Click here to take the survey!

* I will now voice my disappointment that I can’t vote for Trotskyists, who a friend of mine once described as “the cute communists”

Pirates 2: Stagnetti’s Revenge reviewed at Popporn

smartyboots — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:45:22 +0000

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 Marvel Secret Wars t-shirt
random dissing of Jar Jar Binks
Stoya, one of the pretty ladies from the movie helps with the review, which may make it prejudiced
making fun of Tommy Gunn’s balls
there’s more, but if I told you it would ruin the fun

So this is really more of a review of the review. I confess that I haven’t seen Pirates 2 yet (in fact, I have the original Pirates is sitting at home right now, waiting for me to view it), but this review is making me want to see it. Go watch, want to see it, and then come back to goodvibes.com to get the dvd or blu-ray (which is convenient since all our dvd’s are on sale this month). Or if you’re in the Bay Area or Boston you can go to one of our retail stores and rent it.

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

smartyboots — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:00:48 +0000

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 of the boob-intensive Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2.

xkcd is going to put us out of business

smartyboots — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:28:30 +0000

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

smartyboots — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:39:06 +0000

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 we were standing there waiting for the light, I happened to look up and see their sign -

WTF?!??? We were disturbed! We were mystified! Then we got across the street and saw their other sign -

Now I’m sad that I have to pay full price for my mutilator. Do you have any idea how much those things cost?

Olympics joke

smartyboots — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:08:23 +0000

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!

smartyboots — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:41:48 +0000

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 with each other. WALL•E is nothing short of hot, dyke Sci Fi action romance, some seven hundred years in the future! Woo-hoo!

Isn’t that what you saw?
No? What movie were you watching?

Leave it to Kate Bornstein to sum it up so clearly. And I think the point is a good one. In fact, I had a similar thought when I was watching it. It’s really not a stretch to view it that way, especially since they included the clear queer signifier of Hello Dolly. But since I lacked the get-up-and-go to actually follow through on that thought, go read her awesome post. And it goes without saying that you should see WALL•E, if you have not yet done so. (It’s worth checking out the comments, too, where Kate responds to some objections readers have to her theory.)

via Feministing

Small Favors reviewed at Pulp Secret

smartyboots — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:24:16 +0000

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 is usually a major boyzone, so I appreciated that once they stopped giggling about having read a dirty book they actually reviewed it on it’s merits, saying that Small Favors is “a really well done story, very funny, very well drawn” among other complimentary things. I don’t want to turn this into a review review, so I will only say that I would like to one day explain to them the difference between the terms “girl on girl” and “lesbian” in porn, and that I enjoyed watching them squirm while they talked about it.
I was also delighted to learn that Colleen has worked in mainstream comics (because everyone knows it doesn’t count unless it’s Marvel or DC), doing some backup stories for X-Men:First Class and Power Pack Day One. But worry not, smut fans, Colleen has said that she will return to doing adult material, so we can all dream of the day we have Small Favors 3 in our hot little hands.

Small Favors: Girly Porno Comic Collection and Small Favors 2 at gooodvibes.com

how good vibes is going to save America from the Republicans

smartyboots — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:45:59 +0000

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 bedrooms is their own business, and of course we have no way of knowing what, if any, agreement Edwards had with his wife Elizabeth. Then my friend pointed out that he did this WHILE HE WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. Because he would apparently like to hand the presidency to the Republicans for the next eight years.
Now, granted, Republicans seem to get a free pass on this – McCain left his disabled wife to marry a much younger heiress and Newt Gingrich did very much the same, but without the heiress part. I guess we expect them to be heartless, and if you get away with it, it’s not actually dumb.
But Dems! Please! What are you thinking? Bill? Elliot? John?
I have come up with a solution – I propose that, in order to protect their candidacies, Good Vibes provide all male Democratic candidates with a Tunnel Of Love and some nice lube. If they can’t keep it in their pants, maybe they can at least keep it out of their aides.

Is this sex test graded on the curve?

smartyboots — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:30:32 +0000

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 way. This year I’m also grateful that I’m not in Beijing for the actual Olympics, where the pollution is apparently so bad that my asthmatic self probably shouldn’t even watch them on tv.
You may reply to this, “Um, sex blog? Hello?” That’s a fair response.
Another thing I’m thinking about the Olympics is sex testing for female athletes*. Yesirree, if you’re competing in women’s sports in the Olympics, and you seem masculine, based on completely non-objective measures, you may be “evaluated (on your) external appearances by experts and undergo blood tests to examine their sex hormones, genes and chromosomes for sex determination”. Sex testing was the norm until 1999, when the IOC officially stopped it, probably because in the 31 years it was required, gender testing has never found a man masquerading as a woman. For some reason it was deemed appropriate to bring it back for the Olympics this year, though.
There’s a great post over at Bioethics Forum (my current favorite science blog) where some pertinent questions are posed, along with some great explanations of biology, genes and gender.

If women aren’t allowed to be naturally too strong, how about sex-testing male athletes for being too graceful in sports where grace counts? I’m thinking diving. And figure-skating. If a diver or figure-skater who is a man seems a little too graceful, why not sex-test him to see if he’s really a female?

Sex testing has been destructive in the past – Santhi Soundarajan was stripped of a silver medal in 800 meters at the 2006 Asian Games because she was found to be chromosomally male, probably due to Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (which wouldn’t actually provide a performance advantage), subsequently attempted suicide. It has never been successful in it’s intended purpose. Singling out “masculine” women for testing is worse than testing by itself, and if anything un-levels the playing field instead of making things more fair, because the specter of sex testing could be used as a threat – “You beat me in this race and I’ll say it’s because you’re really a man.” It’s easy to imagine an athlete going through the rest of their careers with an asterisk after their record because she was suspected of not being a woman. The only good news is that the resurrection of sex testing seems to be universally considered to be stupid, and news articles about it are an opportunity for education about sex and gender, which you don’t usually see in the New York Times.

* see how I brought it back around?