The secret is out: Women watch porn. Glamour magazine found that 87 percent of women ages 25 to 39 enjoy porn as part of their self-defined healthy sexual lifestyles -- even more than use sex toys.
In The Smart Girl's Guide to Porn, acclaimed sex educator, sex and technology columnist, and porn-for-women expert Violet Blue offers hip, friendly, and knowledgeable advice on bringing porn into your sex life. Or, decide if it's even right for you.
Learn about the realities of porn and the women who watch it, women that direct it, and women who star in it. Discover how to find porn you'll like (and avoid things you don't want to see), from favorite turn-ons and women-friendly websites to Podcasts and porn groups on the web; how to reconcile fantasy with real-life desires. Also, find out how to maintain your own powerful and sexy beauty standards when the people on screen seem impossibly buff, smooth, and surgically enhanced. Looking for authentic sex scenes? Thinking of sharing porn with a lover? Wonder which browser is safest for internet porn surfing? For answers and insight, zoom in on The Smart Girl's Guide to Porn.
"Violet says women who are looking to spice things up need to know the difference between porn and erotica. (...) What's best for beginners? Get Violet's recommendations in The Smart Girl's Guide to Porn." --Oprah.com
Violet's unabashed love of blue movies, coupled with her honest acknowledgement of why it's difficult to find the good stuff, offers women exactly what the title promises: a guide, not a list of skin flicks for chicks. --Wired.com's Sex Drive
The Smart Girl's Guide to Porn -- Sexuality Bronze Medal Winner, 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards -- All National Categories --Independent Publisher Book Awards
Product Details
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Cleis Press; First Edition edition (June 29, 2006)
The London Times named Blue "one of the 40 bloggers who really count"
"Violet Blue is omnipresent on the Web." -Forbes
"Violet Blue is the leading sex educator for the Internet generation." --Webnation
"America's leading (very) public intellectual sexologist, Violet Blue." --The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Violet Blue (tinynibbles.com) is a top 25 Forbes "Web Celeb" and one of Wired's "Faces of Innovation." Blue is regarded as the foremost sexuality and technology futurist and sex-positive pundit in mainstream media (such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, Attack of The Show and The Tyra Banks Show). A published feature writer and columnist for CBSi/ZDNet, Violet also has many award-winning, best selling books. Her books are featured on Oprah's website.
She is regularly interviewed, quoted and featured prominently by major publications and media outlets including Wired (and Wired UK), Newsweek, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Salon.com, BBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Cinematical, PBS: Mediashift, CBS, The History Channel, Esquire, Jane, Maxim, Marie Claire and more. Violet is the author and editor of over thirty award-winning, best selling books and was the notorious sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a renowned blogger, high-profile tech personality, the first female podcaster, currently a reporter for long-running web TV show Geek Entertainment Television, and professional speaker, including two Google Tech Talks at Google, Inc.
Violet Blue's many books have won numerous awards and accolades and have been translated into seven languages. Blue connects with an audience of over 7 million a month with her podcast "Open Source Sex", named for the intersection of technology and sex, and the free-flowing information exchange of the open source software movement.
Forbes called her podcast "One of the Internet's most popular podcasts."
In addition to mainstream media features and guest blogging for sites such as Laughing Squid, Blue writes for media outlets such as Forbes, O: The Oprah Magazine, MacLife, and UN sponsored international health organization, RH Reality Check. She has contributed essays to eleven nonfiction books about sex and culture, and has been cited and quoted as a sex and future tech expert in print outlets ranging from Wired UK's "Experts Predict The Future" feature to David Levy's "Love + Sex With Robots."
Violet lectures about Internet sexuality to cyberlaw classes at UC Berkeley (Boalt; Samuelson Law Clinic), human sexuality programs at UCSF, volunteers as an advisor and instructor about sexual health and human sexuality to sex crisis counselors at community teaching institutions. She is considered an expert in the field of sex and technology, and has been invited to speak about the topic at conferences ranging from O'Reilly's ETech, Gnomedex, LeWeb and SXSW: Interactive and has given two Google Tech Talks at Google, Inc.
Oft-quoted and sourced, Violet has been a published writer in the field of sex and culture since 1999, was the first female podcaster and is a respected digital privacy advocate.
This review is from: The Smart Girl's Guide to Porn (Paperback)
Violet Blue does a great job at cracking open this once taboo topic. She is helping bring it to the mainstream. I read it when it first came out, and then reread it this week in anticipation of her appearance on Oprah to discuss women & erotica.
Th book is a great introduction, but in the world of Erotica a 2006 edition is quickly out of date. I recommend that you follow Violet's blog to keep up to date with some of the best releases that are geared for women + couples - which is a growing segment as she pointed out in her O! magazine article. Not interested in reading an entire book about it but you are interested her What's Worth Watching advice? The highlights include:
Comstock Films's Real People, Real Life, Real Sex Series Matt and Khym: Better Than Ever (Real People, Real Life, Real Sex series) Cult Epics' Vintage Erotica Series
Chemistry, Erotica meets reality TV with this series from author Tristan Taormino Tristan Taormino's Chemistry, Vol 4
The Bi Apple, Outspoken sex blogger and activist Audacia Ray's directoral debut
Jenna Jameson Is The Masseuse
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