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Anyone who has read smut knows that there’s a lot of bad sex in fiction. After all, it’s not easy to come up with a new way to describe something that has been written about so many times. But some examples are worse than others and if you want a fun read, [...]

“It’s unfortunate what we find pleasing to the touch and pleasing to the eye is seldom the same.” Fabienne, Pulp Fiction
One of the sticking points in many of the debates and conversations that I’ve participated in around porn is that porn sex doesn’t look like real-life sex. Unfortunately, if the only images that we have [...]

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 [...]

Our film for the Good Vibrations IXFF (Independent Film Festival) has been submitted, and now I feel like I can tell you all about it.
The shoot was one of the best experiences I have had in a long time, an experience I am still trying to analyze and digest. Often I get approached to work [...]

Every so often, when talking with a customer about the DVDs, I’ll get this question: “do you have anything with women with real bodies?” And I have to say that it kind of yanks my chain. Ren has an interesting post on this at Feministe, which is what sparked this for me today.
First off, I [...]

You may recall the rather nasty piece that Matt Smith wrote a while back, in which he detailed his opinions about BDSM and presented them as fact. It sparked off yet another round in the sex wars, as detailed here.
In response to this piece, BDSM video veteran Mz Berlin blogged about why she thinks that Smith’s conflation [...]

So Matt Smith wrote a really inflammatory article in the SF Weekly about Kink.com. There’s a California state program that helps train employees and Kin.com has used funds to help their staff develop their skills in video and multi-media tech.
First off, nothing that Kink.com is illegal. They get the consent (and enthusiasm) of their models, [...]

A few weeks ago, I was participating in a panel discussion on porn at a local college and I’ve been thinking about something that one of the other folks brought up.
She was talking about how porn doesn’t show the intimacy and connection that are part of sex. And I 100% agree with her on that, [...]

There’s a lot of discussion about the influence of porn on society. And there’s a lot of discussion about the unrealistic expectations that many people (especially younger people) have because of the messages that porn offers. While I think that many of these points make a lot of sense, I also think that there are [...]

The AVN Awards are an exciting event, though they’ve been known to leave folks in the dust at times. Partly in response, other award ceremonies have sprung up to valiently honor those the AVN has overlooked. This weekend the GayVNs will take place this weekend in San Francisco – creating a separate event to honor [...]

Porn has changed a lot over the years. First came the film loops that men watched in social clubs and at bachelor parties. Then we had the era of the classic movies that were filmed for the big screen. Next came the VCR revolution, which shifted the focus from movie theaters to the living room. [...]

From New Scientist
A recent article published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives takes a look at patterns in online porn and found some fascinating information. First off (but not too surprising), online porn use is higher among younger people and those who live in urban settings. On the other hand, a higher marriage rate correlates [...]

I think it’s safe to say that one of Good Vibrations long-standing crushes has been Madison Young. She’s like a Clark Kent of porn stars, masquerading not-so-secretly as a pornstar/bondage model/award-winning director by day and a feminist art gallery owner/performance artist/community leader… well… day. She’s also a musician and writer. Is there anything this sexy smart woman can’t do?

Sadly I left Las Vegas early Saturday – hours before the awards were handed out. It was the first time in three years that I haven’t attended the AVN Awards and a part of me felt sad about it.
Not so much about missing the ceremony itself, though with Belladonna and Jenna Haze running the show [...]

I’ve been inspired lately and I’ve been reading a lot of articles and blogs about porn. The first thing that I have to say is that many of them seem to be written by people with very little actual information about the industry. I’ve been with Good Vibrations for 12 years now, and I’ve learned [...]

In the articles and blogs that I’ve read about porn, every so often, someone talks about the “cum shot“. For the most part, I see people talking about it as objectification of women, a way to humiliate the recipient (generally, this is an argument about humiliation of women since gay porn is consistently left out [...]

I’ve been reading Ernest Green’s Pro-Porn Activism blog lately and I really like his take on the anti-porn documentary propaganda that I also blogged about recently. I also highly recommend checking out his extensive posts about Stop Porn Culture, including how they misrepresented what many of their porn industry interviewees said, since they contradicted the [...]

The other day, Kuono posted about the latest round of anti-porn efforts. I’ve seen these sorts of things come and go, but for the first time in a long time, I sat down and watched their promo video.
I agree with Kuono that it’s ironic that the anti-porn people are using porn to make their point. [...]

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 [...]

An Interview with Jeffrey Lei, Director of Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star
My search for Asian American representation in porn brought me to a film entitled Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star. Cleverly billed as a documentary, the film stars its director Jeffrey Lei as a legendary 1970’s porn actor who mysteriously vanished (along with [...]

A call for submissions & a look at the winners from last year!
Good Vibrations, the legendary destination for sex-positive pro A call for submissions & a look at the winners from last year!
Good Vibrations, the legendary destination for sex-positive products, announces The Second Annual Good Vibrations Amateur Erotic Film Competition.
Submit [...]

Buck Angel makes his own rules, but that’s what you have to do when you’re boldly going where no man has gone before.
Being the world’s first female-to-male transsexual porn star, almost everything he does is ground-breaking, history-making and eye-opening. Undaunted by the fact that, at first, most people really didn’t know how to take him; [...]

Darren James’s fellow adult industry performers speak well of him, calling him “a real gentleman.” Women liked working with him, and his professional standards were higher than those of many up-and-coming porn stars: he got tested oftener for HIV than the customary once-monthly checkup. This requirement, adopted by most porn companies in the 1990s after [...]

Movie music is an art. Porn is seldom art, so it’s no surprise that most porn music sucks. Movie music is seldom done well either, but in regular non-erotic films, the person (or team) doing the scoring takes into account a variety of factors with the goal of enhancing the feeling, mood or action onscreen. [...]

Recently, I was invited to have dinner with a friend and her fairly prestigious family. I can’t quote the exact pedigree, but her father’s research team had once received the Nobel Peace Prize, her uncle is the head of one of the largest hospitals in the country, and her mother manages an upscale furniture store. [...]