Month: September 2007

Originally published in SF Chronicle. Like any venerated holiday, the Folsom Street Fair (folsomstreetfair.com), the world's largest daytime celebration of kinkiness, happens but once a year. This weekend, it's leather Christmas in the city — and if the weather holds up, we'll likely see the estimated 400,000 BDSM-lovin' attendees sweating it out in rubber and… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. Maybe it's that your roommates are tired of your Hitachi Magic Wand vibrating their collectibles off their IKEA curio shelves. Or that when you get that dish of the day (or night) home to your thinly-walled San Francisco Victorian, you're worried your elderly neighbors will dial in a domestic violence… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. Last week, Violet Blue pondered questions of rape and consent in the world of realistic sex dolls, focusing on performance artist Amber Hank Swanson's work, "To Have, To Hold, To Violate: The Making of Amber Doll" and MGM's comedy film "Lars and the Real Girl." In this second part of… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. In previous columns, women working in porn have asked themselves some pretty interesting (and often ironic) questions. Such as, "How many anal scenes does it take to open a feminist art gallery?" — in reference to international bondage model Madison Young's new feminist art space, Femina Potens, which she's primarily… Read more…