I spend a lot of time thinking about and talking about porn. I find our cultural relationship to it fascinating, partly because it sheds light on some facets of our attitudes towards sex that are hard to see otherwise. In the interest of full disclosure, I work for a company that sells sexually explicit movies […]

I went to the AVN Expo last week to teach a seminar on sex education in retail settings for Good Vibrations. I’ve been to a few shows before, so it wasn’t new. That’s a good thing because I find Las Vegas a bit much even without dozens of porn performers wandering around in skimpy clothing, […]

In one of those serendipitous moments, Tony’s comment reminded me of an article that was in the Advocate recently (sorry- link broken) about the effects of porn tube sites and pirated porn on the industry. One of the long-standing advertising maxims is, of course, “Sex Sells.” And it’s true that sex is used to get […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]