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Whatever feelings you have about the practice of fisting, put them aside for a moment to meet Adam Glasser. A handsome man with sparkling eyes and a hidden, caustic wit, Glasser is also well known as Seymore Butts, a maker of adult films. Glasser’s companies Seymore, Inc. and Big Brown Eyes, Inc. (BBE), are homespun [...]

The odors and tastes found between women’s thighs have had volumes of euphemisms written to commemorate, or denigrate, their uniquenesses. While researching my new book The Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus, I encountered oceans of euphemisms, yet little actual information about the way women smell and taste. Women and men who enjoy performing cunnilingus will gush [...]

It’s always funny (in that I’m-a-bad-person-for-thinking-this-is-funny way) when Hollywood actors try to do things in the “real world.” For instance, in late fall of 2001, Scientologist actress Jenna Elfman felt the firing of a synapse, somewhere, and decided to emulate fellow actress and Scientologist pal Kirstie Alley and open up a Scientology mission in her [...]

Last year was a tough one for everyone. The porn industry, however, didn’t flinch. As usual, it churned out thousands upon thousands of videos. Though we at Good Vibrations didn’t have to watch every single one of them, we still sifted though piles of porn to keep our discriminating customers — and ourselves — happy.
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Last week, the acclaimed PBS documentary series Frontline aired “American Porn,” Frontline’s own examination of the adult entertainment industry. It received a lot of hype and some pretty titillating pre-press. Articles written by journalists who saw advance copies gave us teasing tidbits that hinted at the documentary’s shocking imagery — just enough to ensure that [...]

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So, you think you might be interested in watching a dirty movie, eh? You’re not alone. According to the Free Speech Coalition’s 1999 survey of adult retailers, during 1998 stores in the United States reported a total of [...]

For some people, porn is pretty scary all on its own — and not just in a funny or gross-out way. But some of us appreciate a little of the right kind of the macabre in our erotic entertainment. For a long time, I was enamored with soft core Euro-horror, especially anything pre-1980. I still [...]

Rimming, or analingus, is when you kiss, caress or penetrate your lover’s anal opening with your tongue. For many people, rimming is a delicious experience, both on the giving and the receiving end. Some say there is nothing as arousing as having their lover’s warm, soft tongue and lips give them pleasure in such an [...]

At Good Vibrations we have an education department that coordinates and oversees our After Hours classes, the rigorous in-house staff training, and a team of dedicated individuals that give outreach workshops. To me, the Outreach Team is an earnest group of heroes, traveling great distances for no or little money to present sex ed. workshops [...]

We traipse into the porn section at the video store looking for a hot S/M video. Instead, we come home with a poorly shot, sexless, unconvincing flick with silicone-stuffed players dressed in awful outfits. What we really wanted was something sleek and sexual, with scenarios like short stories, acted out by actual S/M players wearing [...]

Take a look at any neighborhood porn video rental section, and you’ll find an alien rainbow of genres and tastes. Big-budget couples’ fare, low-budget bisexual features, tapes that specialize by sex act: anal, oral, double, facial, interracial… And sometimes you’ll find sections for what pornographers consider the deviant stuff; fetishes like shaving, “messy girls,” urination, [...]

Finding decent queer porn is tough. There’s tons of gay male porn cranked out each year, and most of it’s extremely poor quality — mostly pumped-up LA Gladiators going through the motions, and plots so flimsy you wish they just didn’t even bother. And if you’re looking for real lesbians and dykes, just forget it. [...]

Originally released in 1999, WADD: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes had its theatrical re-release in January of this year, and is making its way slowly through the art house circuit as you read this review. The film is a scrupulously researched documentary directed by Cass Paley, released by adult industry giant VCA [...]

It was the opinion of doctors (and all other health and morality experts) in Europe and the U.S. from the 1830s to the 1930s that masturbation was a compulsive affliction, similar to the way we view smoking today. In fact, the widely held view was that no sane adult man or woman would “voluntarily” masturbate. [...]

Adult film actor Randy Spears just can’t help it — he’s got natural good looks, charm, and a sexy magnetism that makes you keep your eye on him, no matter what he’s doing. And it doesn’t hurt that he’s got a wealth of acting talent, which proves itself again and again with each character-driven role [...]

Just when I think I’ve seen the ultimate in erotic imagery, just when I think it can’t get any better, someone comes along and shows me something hotter, something sexier. I’ve often come across a very sexy photograph and thought, “That’s it, that’s the most perfect situation, most arousing person,” only to see another erotic [...]

Hollywood’s tender beginnings may seem cute and innocent by our present standards. But back in the 1920s before moving pictures learned to speak, the nation saw Hollywood as a modern-day Sodom. Weekly movie attendance was 35 million, and while actors like Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were the perfect symbols of all-American sex appeal, exotic [...]

Veronica Hart is one of porn’s most celebrated mavericks. Like many Hollywood directors, she found a resting place not in her first career as an object of the camera’s fascination, but when she re-invented herself as the conductor behind the camera’s lens. She certainly hasn’t been the first adult actress trying on the director’s hat [...]

The year 2000 was a landmark year for sex — and it showed most of all in the sheer volume of high-quality erotic books and videos released for public consumption. Along with other retailers, we sold more adult books and videos than ever, and with the year’s incredibly talented offering of writers, artists, directors and [...]