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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. [...]

I came across this great website a while back… Votergasm.com. It encourages people to vote by asking people to give and withhold sexual activity from voters and non-voters, respectively.  There are 3 levels of pledging: the first calls for voters to abstain from sex with non-voters for a week after presidential elections. The second asks [...]

I’ve mostly kept politics out of this blog, but the current political climate is seriously scary and I recently came across some information about McCain’s stance on sexual issues that I think more people need to know about. I got this info from the Planned Parenthood Action Center list of 10 Things Everyone Should Know [...]

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 [...]

Who said politics weren’t sexy? Proposition K is in the running this election for San Francisco, which if passed will decriminalize prostitution. The SF Chronicle ran this recent Op-Ed article “Decriminalize Prostitution – Vote YES on Prop K” which sites a number of reasons why “Clearly, the policing of sex work is problematic.”
You can donate [...]

My good friend just moved to Canada to go to law school. Why Canada? Because she’s interested in the rights of prostitutes and other sex workers, and in the US, prostitution is a crime. Boo.
Are you located in the Bay Area or know someone who is?
Let them know that they can come to the State [...]

Abba, Ikea, Lelo (the Rolls Royce of vibrators), and now Gay asylum (in a good way). What can I say, I HEART the Swedes. I don’t know if you’ve been keeping up with the news about several incidents of gay youths running away from Iran in search of a country that won’t kill them for [...]

This weekend San Francisco was literally shaking with Pride. From recent lifting of the Marriage Ban (read about the struggles and slow triumphs of a similar marriage ban such as the history of Anti-Miscegenation laws), to powerful political urges still fighting for justice — for example, the TransMarch focus this Pride was for a transgender-inclusive [...]

One of my reps just told me about this lawsuit and it serves as a reminder that the right to access pleasure products, book and DVDs is not actually a right… it is something that is constantly under attack and people in our industry and beyond are constantly having to fight for… read on.
Here’s the [...]

Thanks to the ongoing efforts of publications like $pread Magazine, and activist/artistic offerings of Annie Oakley’s Sex Workers Art Show, the country and most critically, our politicians, are finally starting to get a clue. I recently was on SexWork101.com (edited by none other than Audacia Ray), and found this great video filmed during one of [...]

The sex boutique Good For Her in Toronto, Canada, throws an event every year that really blows my mind. The Feminist Porn Awards! They pick out the best indie, sex-positive, and feminist movies, scenes, and scene-makers and compile a list every year.
And, of course, Good Vibrations carries some of these titles!
Here are this year’s winners!
Boundary [...]

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 [...]

Judging from the interest that my grandmother showed in the G-spot, I believed that, after the initial disapproval had passed, she would be receptive to a vibrator. So I made up my mind to buy one for her.
Then it came time to pick one.
It’s always a difficult to buy sex toys for another person, but [...]

My grandfather is driving and my grandmother is in the passenger seat. I sit in the back, reading. We’re taking the hour-long drive to visit relatives. As my grandfather pulls over and leaves the car to ask for directions, my grandmother swivels toward the backseat and asks, “What’s that you’re reading?”
I look up from my [...]

Let me tell you about my family. As a child, I spent a great deal of time with my father’s side, so I have an emotionally close, affectionate relationship with most of that side. I make it a point to visit them when possible, to call on holidays if I can’t be with them. They [...]

As a Good Vibrations employee with a generous discount, I am faced with a dilemma at Christmas. Namely, the necessity of choosing between:

Purchasing gifts elsewhere at full price, or
Saving some cash, and getting everyone sex toys.

Being the sex toy enthusiast that I am, I enjoy the idea of gifting sex toys—and I often indulge [...]

Reading is really sexy. I know so many of you out there agree… And you have been so disappointed by how the book sections in our stores have been lacking and I’m so sorry you’ve been waiting so long. I hear your disappointment loud and clear, which is why I am so [...]

So two things of note today, or should I say, two colors. First let’s begin with Purple. They customer interaction was short and sweet, but nevertheless meaningful, and went a little something like this…
Custie “Hi.”
Me “Hi.”
Custie “Do you have anymore of these in the back?”
Me “No, unfortunately we don’t. Is there something [...]

Dear Good Vibrations Customer,
I’ve lived in the San Francisco Bay Area my whole life. I grew up in southern Marin County with a crazy artist for a mother and an old school, city-surfer for a step-father. To say the least I grew up under the influence of fairly unconventional and slightly radical thinking. Many topics [...]

Yes, yes… It is that time of year again.
Time for what you say?
A Global Orgasm of course.
Last year, peace activists Donna Sheehan and Paul Reffell took sex-positivity to a whole new level when, for the first time, they organized a global effort for people to climax simultaneously in protest of the growing prospect of war [...]

I am sure that many of you have at some point in life heard some variation of the following phrase: On the day <insert deity/creative force here> gave out <insert physical or mental attribute here>, you were <insert activity that implies that you were in the wrong place at the time that said physical or [...]

I’m on a mailing list for “Alerts” from the American Family Association.  It’s a bit oxymoronic, but every so often the AFA sends out an alert that just tickles me pink.  Usually I get notes asking for me to take action when companies air “offensive” commercials or when previously accountable politicians veer too far from [...]

Walking into the offices of General Video of America-Trans World News for the first time in April of 2007, I admit that it was with some reticence. Its location was not exactly ideal and its worn and weathered offices in no way rivaled the super sleek testaments of modern architecture that dominated the landscape [...]

If you’ve ever watched an erotic movie made in the last decade, or looked at porn on the internet, you’ve probably noticed a blurb about the fact that the movie or website contains sexually explicit images and that there are records being kept pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 2257 and C.F.R. 75 ar, along with the [...]

Gotta love wikipedia. If you’ve been following the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), proposed by US fed law that prohibits discrimination against all employees on the basis of sexual orientation, you know that the current debate is whether or not to include gender identity within the bill.
Basically, the deal is that there’s two versions of the [...]