Year: 2008
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Ecosexuals do it greener / Violet Blue shows how to have hot eco-friendly sex
Originally published in SF Chronicle. Note: Several of the links in this article contain lead to sites containing images of semi-realistic sex toys. Use caution and good sense if clicking from a common area. Bouncing around Nob Hill in an old Honda full of fleshy jiggly local exotic dancers, we were talking about boys and… Read more…
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China's Olympic-sized sex and gender problems / Rounding up and testing female 'gender suspects' while disallowing sex talk to foreigners makes Beijing look like a bad place to be a top female athlete
Originally published in SF Chronicle. In a couple weeks, the Olympics begin in China. It's a big country. So big that it manufactures most of the world's sex toys, and was recently host to the world's largest sex toy expo, the Fifth China International Adult Toys and Reproductive Health Exhibition. In 2007, the expo boasted… Read more…
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Obama's national sex ed program / Violet Blue lays the groundwork for the candidate to save our kids from the evils of sex ed, once and for all
Originally published in SF Chronicle. Let's just get this part of the discussion out of the way: I'm not even going to pretend that John McCain has a broken condom of a chance at a term in the Oval Office. Barack Obama is going to be our next president, and our next first lady is… Read more…
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Is Cybersex Cheating? / Violet Blue investigates the outer limits of cybersex and monogamy
Originally published in SF Chronicle. "Hey. Baby. I know you like to have some fun. You. Know. Where to find me," burbles Kari, the Virtual Girlfriend in a halting, female Stephen Hawking voice through my G4's speakers. But while Kari might be the most advanced commercially available artificial intelligence pleasure model online, if I walked… Read more…
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Have Highbrow Porn, Will Travel / Violet Blue investigates CineKink, the X-rated Sundance
Originally published in SF Chronicle. When I was finally old enough to walk into a women-owned sex shop, I got my paws on one of their adult video catalogs. Packed with porn handpicked by women and reviewed by staff, I felt I'd finally hit the girly gold mine, and I rushed home to the Haight… Read more…
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Margaret Cho, a bottle of whiskey and a long night / Violet Blue dishes the dirt on her night out with the fabulous Miss Cho
Originally published in SF Chronicle. I'm not telling you what happened on Friday night because you deserve it. I'm telling you because you need it. And what began with a post Trans March surprise visit from Donna Sachet turned into a squirmy pile of bodies packed into Margaret Cho's limo as we all got in… Read more…
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Your extra sexy Pride guide / Violet Blue rounds up gifts and events, because the honeymoon begins now
Originally published in SF Chronicle. Everyone loves a happy ending, especially here in San Francisco. Many say that the happy ending to a wedding is the honeymoon; fortunately for everyone in town for the biggest Pride celebration in the world this weekend, we've got newlyweds and happy endings a plenty. A whole city practically doubling… Read more…
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Prelude to a gangbang / Violet Blue asks Chuck Palahniuk about his new porn novel, 'Snuff'
Originally published in SF Chronicle. We're standing in a Mission bar, and Tristan Taormino has just finished poking my cleavage with her index finger and giggling, when she says, "So. The story goes like this. One night, Hunter S. Thompson calls up Susie Bright. It's late, and he says, 'It's Hunter. Tell me everything you… Read more…
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My Big Fat Sexless Marriage / Violet Blue demands a solution
Originally published in SF Chronicle. Ironically, my drink was called Vow Of Silence. Grinning evilly over my delicious Alembic cocktail, I leveled my gaze and stared directly into Patrick's beautiful eyes. My handsome porn-star pal raised a recently waxed eyebrow in challenge. I asked, "So. what food do you eat if you want to eradicate… Read more…
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California's porn tax / Violet Blue has serious concerns when lawmakers get in bed with fundamentalists for a 'money shot'
Originally published in SF Chronicle. If California lawmakers are going to levy a draconian vice tax on porn, it seems only fair that consumers get to decide what kind of porn should be taxed. For instance, only really bad porn should cost extra at the checkout counter. Is it from the 1980s? Tax that ass.… Read more…