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How did you start giving sex advice?
That’s a really good question, because I’ve actually been giving people sex advice all my adult life, long before I had any veritable qualifications. In fact, I can recall being 10 years old and informing my sister – who was worried about getting pregnant from a tampon - that that [...]

$pread Magazine is putting a call out for models and contributors for their next Issue, 5.3. The deadline is November 1st.
$PREAD CALL FOR MODELS AND CONTRIBUTORS, ISSUE 5.3
In our upcoming issue, we’re exploring age and aging within the sex industry. Feature pitches (ideas for articles of 2000-3000 words) should be sent to contribute@spreadmagazine.org. We’re particularly [...]

I’ve been following the Rhode Island debates about whether to criminalize indoor sexwork lately. Actually, a lot of why I’m following it is because the effervescent Megan Andelloux has been on the receiving end of a lot of hassle over the opening of the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health, an educational organization somewhat akin [...]

When I visit the store and I happen to look over to a couple or single perusing over the various DVDs we have in stock, sometimes I see a puzzled look, eyes squinting, brow furrowed as if this posture will somehow give the answer-what movie is the best for me?
For instance, here is a description [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Michael Schwartz, the chief of staff for Republican senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, and his proclamation that telling boys that porn will make them gay will keep them from looking at it.
So imagine my pleasure in this little video from the Onion. There’s nothing I can say [...]

There are a lot of people conducting sex research, but most of us only hear about them when they make headlines. So I decided to take a look behind the scenes so you can hear about sex research from someone who’s actually doing it. Dr. John Beiter has been giving people his test as a [...]

How did you start giving sex advice?
I was a leader in the Lesbian And Gay Organization (now LGBT) at UC San Diego when I joined a discussion panel resource for local schools. I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1983 and soon thereafter started working with a group of sex-positive educators called the [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
Truthfully, I’m more of love and relationship educator or an Activist of the Heart. After the release of my book, Redefining Our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships, I came in contact with more and more people who were struggling to find support around polyamory and open relationships. [...]

Tomorrow, Courtney Trouble of NoFauxxx.Com and Good Releasing’s Roulette, Nostalgia, and Speakeasy is giving away something for nothing: porn! If you’re curious about her work and the website she’s been running for the last 6 years, check it out:
NoFauxxx.Com will be open to the public for the entire day of October 1st. To get into [...]

Good Vibrations will be donating to a very cool event coming up next month — so mark your calendars, San Francisco! — put on by Muni Diaries.
MuniDiaries.com is a place for Muni riders to read and share tales on the bus. They publish submissions from anyone who rides SF’s beloved public transit system. The idea [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
Celeste: I was interested in sex and relationships from a very young age, began masturbating early, talked with all of my friends about sex and was always a non-judgmental ear that people could go to if they needed to talk or had questions. I started out following [...]

One of the things that I love about being a sex educator is the incredible diversity of my colleagues. Sex educators come to the profession for many different reasons and via many different paths. And yet, there are quite a few similarities among us.
I receive a lot of inquiries from people who want to become [...]

Once again, Folsom St. Fair was a lovely time. The crowd was (mostly) lots of fun, the costumes outfits were impressive, the weather was perfect, and there was the usual array of spectacle. Plus, it seemed like people had  amazing hair this year. I saw everything from multi-colored, waist-length braids, a bouffant bleach job, mohawks, [...]

Team Evil Angel is so close to reaching their $2500 donations goal they can almost taste it. The team, consisting of pornstars like Belladonna, Keni Styles, and Sinnamon Love has raised $2250 so far. Most notably, Keni Styles and fans have raised over $1K towards the drive, and it’s just super exciting in general to [...]

Carnal Nation has a new piece up about the ongoing question of whether cybersex is cheating or not. And I think that a lot of the debate is missing the point.
As far as I’m concerned, what makes something “cheating” is that you’re not following the rules. If you’re playing checkers and you move your piece [...]

The Folsom St. Fair is coming up on Sept. 27 and I have a few tips for anyone coming to enjoy the spectacle. Folsom is an amazing experience and a great opportunity to have fun, if you’re interested in queer, kinky, leather, sexy folks. (You can pick any combination of those adjectives to describe most [...]

San Francisco Cabaret fans (and students) rejoice!
This weekend is the 3rd Annual National People of Color Cabaret, Kaleidoscope, and if the performers aren’t hot enough get this: they’re teaching workshops, too! You have got  to check out the classes, a must-do for any burlesque or cabaret performer and a good time for fans! The performance [...]

Good Releasing (www.goodreleasing.com) is sister company to Good Vibrations and has hit the stands with three outstanding video lines and a slew of new titles that put healthy and hot sex to the forefront of the adult video industry.
With directors like queer alt princess Courtney Trouble, kinky feminist pioneer Madison Young, creative photographer/filmmaker extraordinaire Carlos [...]

A news report came out today that hits close to home for me. Literally, since it’s about something going on at my hometown high school.
It seems that an annual tradition has evolved in which the senior girls create a “slut list” of the incoming first-year girls. According to ABC news, the list names of the [...]

As you may have heard, Michael Schwartz, the chief of staff for Republican senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, has announced that the best way for parents to keep boys from looking at porn is to tell them that it’s “homosexual.” He figures that this makes sense because “boys at that age have less tolerance for [...]

Atlanta just got hotter and a whole lot dirtier when Courtney Trouble rolled into town.
If you’re in Atlanta, you’re in luck. Get out tomorrow night, Tuesday September 22nd, for clips from Roulette & Nostaliga, and the screening of Speakeasy.
This free event is one night only, and it is an East Coast Premiere for Speakeasy! Filmmaker [...]

From Dr. Carol Queen, Ph.D: Are you an exhibitionist? Up for video appearances in the new how-to line I’m going to begin doing soon? These explicit sex education movies will be full-length, will appear monthly, and will cover lots of different topics. I’ll be casting two or three couples (and sometimes singles and more-than-twosomes) for each one, and in addition to that, I want each movie to include clothed (or, for that matter, unclothed) people talking about the topic.”

A while back, GV staffer and blogger Angelxtacy wrote about Georgina Spelvin’s visit to our Valencia SF store. Well, she’s back! Georgina Spelvin will be presenting The Devil in Miss Jones at the Lumiere Theater as part of the IXFF (Independent Erotic Film Festival) and will be doing Q&A herself following the film. It’s at [...]

I do a great deal of visual research at the Picture Collection in the Public Library in Mid-Manhattan. During one session, I found a 70’s era photo montage in the Erotic folder of photograph of a naked woman collaged into a photograph of a hot dog bun. The artist had also squirted red and yellow paint onto the image. The image struck me in diverse ways–the eroticism, the gross-ness, the rough technique, the offensiveness.