Our Indie Erotic Film Festival is making waves, and just got written up in the Cleveland Scene — Cleveland’s Cedar Lee Theatre is one of the stops for the festival’s “Second Coming Tour”. Here’s the excerpt that includes an interview with Coordinator Camilla Lombard.
Reel Cleveland: Cedar Lee Gets Erotic
[Cleveland Scene]
The sexual double entendres are endless [...]
Question: Did you have fun at the Masturbate-a-Thon?
Great fun! The Masturbate-a-Thon was held Saturday, and competitors (looking to best the world time record) started at 11 a.m.; I was running around getting ice and stuff, that’s always my last-minute job, and got there at 3 or so. By 4:30 it was time to start the [...]
For This just in from the fantastic Camilla in Marketing:
Good Vibrations is proud to announce IXFF: The Second Coming Tour, a national road show of the Independent Erotic Film Festival’s best shorts. This Spring, Good Vibrations is selecting the very best of past entries from its Independent Erotic Film Festival (IXFF) and taking it on [...]
If you’re in San Francisco and love kinky film, then there’s no better place to be tomorrow night than at the Castro Theatre for Good Vibration’s Third Annual Amateur Erotic Film Festival, sponsored by Tantus Toys and Digital Playground films. This year we’ve gone bi-coastal, accepting entries from both California and Massachusetts for one hot [...]
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 [...]
How does that song go? … “Sistas are doing it for themselves…”
Well, they are. Giana Taylor, founder of the 1st Annual Urban Spice Awards is recognizing adult industry talent who usually only get their for nods in the “Best Ethnic” categories. Shafted (literally?!) by award after award, this Sunday’s award ceremony brings some [...]
Good Vibrations was voted a “Readers’ Poll Winner” in San Francisco Weekly’s “Best of” 2008 for… you guessed it… sex supplies!
SF Weekly contributor Michael Leaverton knows a thing or two about design, and when it comes to GV’s toys, he’s got his pick on Barry the Beaver and our Beaver launch party at Valencia [...]
Are you going to the Masturbate-a-thon? You don’t have to go in person — you can participate (or just support) from the comfort of your own laptop. The event will even be webcamed (well, a portion of it — hose attending who wish to be on webcam will be seen).
Find out m… m… more!
at:
www.masturbate-a-thon.com
As Smartyboots belatedly alluded to, the cuming of spring brings back the freak in all of us, be it fucking outdoors… getting down at play parties. The term “play party” is a recent one, though the idea of group sex is well documented through the ages, including our friends(s) at wikipedia.
An East Coast friend of [...]
This just in from $pread Magazine… From the Bay Area to the Big Apple, sex workers are organizing for political and economic justice. It’s time to organize our sex worker electorate into a political force and “Grind the Vote!”
We already have voter registration events scheduled for New York City and Washington DC, but we need [...]
Good Vibrations tends to have a lot of in-store events. Whether it’s an After Hours Class, erotica reading, how-to, product launch etc… we like bringing folks into our stores for eats and treats. And we always hope people leave a little happier whether it’s from the information they learned or from the [...]
The folks at the Center for Sex and Culture really know how to have a good time. REALLY!
Need proof? Just check out the Masturbate-a-thon. That’s right, it’s an event to rival all marathons… for those of you training for the AidsLifeCycle right now, I’m sure you’re secretly wishing the event was based on a different [...]
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 [...]
I care about the environment. I care about being “green” and try to “do my part”, whether at work or in my personal life. I buy organic. I recycle, reuse and try to reduce. I compost. I buy composting baggies for picking up my dog’s waste (http://www.ecoanimal.com/poopbags.html) . Heck, I buy composting [...]
If you live in San Francisco, you should know about this event coming up!
In a few words: It’s a rock show with bonus erotic performances that benefits the filming of an underground, independantly produced, sex-positive porn film.
Monday, March 31st
El Rio, San Francisco.
9pm
$4-8 sliding scale, benefit.
“No Fauxxx Filming Benefit”w/ Thunder Thighs (SF)
Chinese Bookie (SF)
Hellokoptor (LA)
& special [...]
If you live around San Francisco, or just happen to read this magazine, I’m sure you heard about Good Vibrations amazing Valentine’s Day Bash, the Queen of Hearts Ball. It was a magical night filled with hot costumes, great live acts, and some really special moments. For those of you who couldn’t make it, here [...]
The Center for Sex and Culture (www.sexandculture.org) has a great class called Cunts for Fags. My friend and blogger, 5 Star, caught some great comments on her blog Iamfivestar.com. Included is a brief interview with Carol Queen and some of the participants and live models. The class lends a hands on education in a unique [...]
By Allison G
Good Vibrations, the world-renowned purveyors of pleasure, are taking over Valentine’s Day with the biggest bash of the year, the Queen of Hearts Ball.
Good Vibrations and the Queen herself, Dr. Carol Queen, will host a night of decadent delights on Thursday, February 14, 2008, beginning at 8 PM at Mighty, 119 Utah Street, [...]
I just got news that the Sex Workers Art Show is coming to San Francisco!
The hell-on-wheels traveling family circus that is the Sex Workers Art Show
tour is making its San Francisco stop on Sunday, January 20th at the
Victoria Theatre, which is San Francisco’s oldest operating theater, built
in 1908. Come and have Barbary Coast [...]
The other night we had the lovely pleasure of a visit from Doctors Carol Queen and Robert Lawrence. The event was the latest in a series of in-store classes called Ask The Doctors. These classes are free events and happen on a regular basis at all our Bay Area locations. Tonight’s class focused on Erotic [...]
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 [...]
The Sex Workers Art Show is getting set to tour again!
Have you worked in the sex industry? (Porn stars, strippers, escorts, dommes, webcam girls and boys, hookers, etc…) All are encouraged to apply!
Michelle Tea and Julie Atlas Muz from the 2006 Sex Workers Art Show, photo: sexworkersartshow.com
Here’s their official announcement…
THE SHOW:The Sex Workers’ [...]
October is always exciting at here at GV, but mostly because October means the return of Good Vibrations Annual Amateur Erotic Film Competition. Last year was amazing. It was our first time trying to put on a competition of this magnitude and we had no idea if people would submit films, if they would be [...]
“Electricity has given so much comfort to womankind …
It gave her the vacuum cleaner, the pop-up toaster and the automatic ice dispenser. And perhaps above all, it gave her the vibrator …”
Natalie Angier, New York Times
review of “The Technology of Orgasm”
Friday, October 19th: Free!
DVD release party for “PASSION & POWER”!
This stirring documentary is based on [...]
In preparation for Folsom Street Fair, which happens every year in San Francisco, Good Vibrations is grabbing some hot new toys. Tagged “SF Vibes” and themed with the BDSM man in mind, they’re sure to be a hit. I sat down with Graphic Designer, Q, for a … “behind” the scenes look at what goes [...]
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Sex Questions from the Twittersphere: Treatments for Vaginismus
Whats the best path of treatment for vaginismus? Are there any good online resources for self-help? (asking on behalf of my gf)
I’m not sure about the vast range that the online world offers re: this, but there is a substantive-looking site called vaginismus.com which is certainly worth exploring. And there has been one good book written about Vaginismus, which is a condition which involves the vagina not relaxing enough to allow for comfortable penetration — sometimes the tightness is so extreme that even a finger can’t be inserted without pain. Its functional definition refers to the inability to have intercourse.
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