Violet Blue

“An illuminating handbook for women.” —ELLE Magazine “The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy is a straight-forward how-to for protecting your privacy and undermining the social media settings that want you to share potentially intimate details with the world...I found the book alarmingly handy.” —Bitch Magazine “For girls and women in the technological age, this guide to Internet safety is a must-read. It’s a young woman’s invaluable guide to empowerment, addressing not only the why of keeping strong boundaries but the how.” —Foreword Reviews The whirlwind of social media, online dating, and mobile apps can make life a dream—or a nightmare. For every trustworthy website, there are countless jerks, bullies, and scam artists who want to harvest your personal information for their own purposes. But you can fight back, right now. In The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy, award-winning author and investigative journalist Violet Blue shows you how women are targeted online and how to keep yourself safe. Blue’s practical, user-friendly advice will teach you how to: -Delete personal content from websites -Use website and browser privacy controls effectively -Recover from and prevent identity theft -Figure out where the law protects you—and where it doesn’t -Set up safe online profiles -Remove yourself from people-finder websites Even if your privacy has already been compromised, don’t panic. It’s not too late to take control. Let The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy help you cut through the confusion and start protecting your online life.

Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online

The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy

Her mother was a hacker-for-hire and drug dealer to Silicon Valley's elite; after everything went wrong she was homeless and alone on San Francisco streets at the age of thirteen. Fleeing her mother's life on the run from a double-crossed cartel and fresh out of witness protection, she joined Silicon Valley's children foraging food from San Francisco's trash cans and sleeping in abandoned cars -- while tech's earliest generations of workers partied, broke laws, and spat on homeless kids begging for spare change under the glow of tech's latest creations. A Fish Has No Word For Water is a memoir about what it's really like for homeless kids, the strength of chosen family, and a hard love letter to San Francisco. This memoir of survival unflinchingly shows Silicon Valley's children begging in the shadows of tech's shining towers, the surprising care circles formed by adults in San Francisco's LGBTQ community, and a city that is a mosaic of technologies and peoples that should not be together, but are. It upends stereotypes about children who survive abuse, young sex workers, LGBTQ youth, resilience in the face of immense grief and trauma, and how communities form to overcome some of the deadliest forms of discrimination. It reveals to readers that there was never a case for tech's shine in the first place. Most of all, it is a story of tremendous resilience and how we can remake trauma into an invitation to be part of a larger world.

A punk homeless San Francisco

A Fish Has No Word For Water

Cyberpunk anti-heroes face global conspiracies, misused government R&D, thugs, drugs, true love, artificial intelligence, and vengeful sexbots in this collection's heady mix of sci-fi and sex. Wetware shows how hot "high tech low life" can be when all the glittering and frightening possibilities of cyberpunk meet the crisis point of sexual need. Seven unpredictable stories depict hackers, transhumans, androids, pop stars, armed revolutionaries, government contractors and more who discover that sex is hotter with hacked, stolen and renegade tech -- especially when it's a high-risk proposition.Some erotica writers have ideas, others have visions. Love is a side-effect of stolen, weaponized biotech in "Bishop to King's Pawn, Two" by Thomas S. Roche. In "Synthetic Skin" by Kendra Jarry, a government contractor steals secret field hardware for the sole purpose of seduction. A brainwave hacker's conquest in a club bathroom stall takes a turn in Cecilia Tan's "Rough, Trade." Lines are crossed and re-crossed when the household helper bot in Devyn X. Sands' "Never Say No" has had enough of her owner's perversions. "Sixty-Five Night" by Stephen Stavros charts a dangerous AI experiment that pushes one woman into a seedy neon ghetto for a public transhuman sexual encounter -- under the shadow of a murder conspiracy. Cyberpunk's sexuality has always been transgressive and prescient; this collection brings the genre's tradition into the current state of cyberpunk affairs. Wetware isn't a typical erotica collection, nor is it a typical sci-fi anthology. It's also a rich celebration of hacker and cyberpunk culture, within the hallmarks of this culture's rich and diverse sexualities and genders. It's a tech-savvy, philosophically-rich, erotic anthology artfully spiked with cyberpunk-themed cocktail recipes and recommendations for sexy cyberpunk films, books, and anime. Blue's introduction "Coded in Spirals and Pheromones" features story excerpts in an essay examining cyberpunk sexuality, and how our fantasies of a gilded cyberpunk future have arrived -- while at the same time, something has gone horribly wrong with the way technology was supposed to empower us. Blue explains exactly why "it is our growing sense of things gone terribly wrong that gives the stories here their power, anchored in one of cyberpunk's most defiant agents of change: Sex." This book contains adult situations, including BDSM, domestic discipline, gender fluidity in sexual situations, backdoor and oral play, power exchange, role-play, spanking, bisexual men, and explicit scenes. The book also depicts non-monogamous relationships and sexual activity (and penetration) involving more than two individuals. Table of Contents* Introduction: Coded in Spirals and Pheromones by Violet Blue * Bishop to King's Pawn, Two by Thomas S. Roche * Liquid Exploits: The Gibson Engine * Rough, Trade by Cecilia Tan * Say Cyber One More Time: Sexy Cyberpunk Films * Dangerous Circuitry by N.T. Morley * Liquid Exploits: Tschunk! * Grinding by Janine Ashbless * Say Cyber One More Time: Adult Cyberpunk Books * Never Say No by Devyn X. Sands * Liquid Exploits: Zero Couth * Sixty-Five Night by Stephen Stavros * Say Cyber One More Time: (Sexier) Cyberpunk Anime * Synthetic Skin by Kendra Jarry

Cyberpunk Erotica

Wetware

Sex educator and best-selling writer Violet Blue guides readers through the pleasure playground of strap-on sex for heterosexual couples. Lots of hot women want to strap it on and their male partners are happy to oblige. With style and wit, Violet Blue explains pleasure anatomy in men with ample attention to the prostate gland - the epicentre to male orgasm that's been called 'the male G-spot.' Full of crafty ideas on positions, toys, harnesses, role-play scenarios and reading a partner like a dirty book.

The Adventurous Couple's Guide to Strap-On Sex

From the erotica anthology series that truly delivers, Best Women's Erotica 2009 is packed with risky, romantic thrills and erotic adventure - both inside the bedroom and out. The stories contained within the anthology are yet to be announced - Violet Blue is sifting through the year's best stories to find the best of the best - but the results of her search are bound to be explosive. Violet Blue is a sex columnist, author and editor of erotic fiction, as well as being the creator of popular podcast Open Source Sex.

Best Women's Erotica 2009

Acclaimed sex educator Violet Blue tells women how to find porn they'll like, from favorite turn-ons and women-friendly DVDs to podcasts and porn groups on the web. She shows how to reconcile fantasy with real-life desires, and how smart girls can maintain their own 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? The Smart Girl's Guide to Porn has the answers.

The Smart Girl's Guide to Porn

Provides advice for women on how to flirt effectively and use this power to find the man of one's dreams, in a book that includes personality tests and information on Internet flirting. Original.

Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Every Girl Needs to Get the Guy

Total Flirt

Taboo will feed you erotic stories of forbidden desire like fingerfuls of warm chocolate dripping onto your tongue. Here are twenty-two superbly written erotic stories featuring couples who want it so bad they can taste it - and they do, making their most taboo erotic fantasies come true. What is your deepest, darkest, sweetest, most stunningly wicked fantasy? The couples whose naughtiest fantasies play out within these pages are comitted to each other without question. They push the limits of sex, lust, and the imagination as far as they can to please each other. Taboo delivers enough heat to inspire you to try out your own fantasies at home, in the office, or ...?

Taboo (16pt Large Print Edition)

Who can live without lust? All day and night, our minds run through delicious possibilities — a silky hand beckoning us into the VIP lounge; a stranger in the backseat; the hunky FedEx driver bringing his package to the door — not to mention our own lascivious memories. Lust is a collection of erotica by and for women, a fierce and joyous celebration of female desire — and the triple-X trouble it gets us into. In Kay Jaybee’s “Tied to the Kitchen Sink,” a birthday boy finds his present — nude except for tall, high-heeled boots — happily devoted to domestic duties. Maria Grigoriadis’s “Pleasant Surprise” shows what can happen when you knock on the wrong apartment door — without your panties. And Bonnie Dee’s “Ripe Fruit” teasingly elaborates the sweet, sticky encounter of a soap opera idol and a fruit-stand employee on a stretch of rural roadside. Let the witty and provocative Violet Blue, best-selling writer, sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and host of the popular podcast Open Source Sex, lead you down a primrose path to a forest of wicked, lustful surprises.

Erotic Fantasies for Women

Lust

Bestselling author Violet Blue shows smart girls everywhere how to enjoy mind-blowing G-spot orgasms – with or without a partner. “The G-spot is not a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. It is a place in your body.” — from the introduction It’s not a myth, it’s a miracle — the G-spot, that powerhouse of female orgasm. With wit and panache, sex educator and best-selling writer Violet Blue helps readers master the sexual alphabet through “G.” Beginning with an anatomical guide and incorporating suggestions for couple-play, positions, toys, and safer sex,The Smart Girl’s Guide to the G-Spotwill lead to thrilling new sensations and earth-shaking, bed-breaking, gale force climaxes. As with all her sex guides, Violet includes sections on further reading and recommended videos and DVDs, and practical information on toys and toy shopping. Any girl can unleash her own awesome orgasmic superpower withThe Smart Girl’s Guide to the G-Spot.

The Smart Girl's Guide to the G-Spot

It's not a myth, it's a miracle, the G-spot, that powerhouse of female orgasm. With wit and panache, sex educator and best-selling writer Violet Blue helps readers master the sexual alphabet through G. Beginning with an anatomical guide and incorporating suggestions for couple-play, positions, toys, and safer sex, The Smart Girl's Guide to the G-Spot will lead to thrilling new sensations and earth-shaking, bed-breaking, gale force climaxes. As with all her sex guides, Violet includes sections on further reading and recommended videos and DVDs, and practical information on toys and toy shopping. Any girl can unleash her own awesome orgasmic superpower with The Smart Girl's Guide to the G-Spot.

The Smart Girl's Guide to the G-Spot (16pt Large Print Edition)

The secret is out: Women watch porn. A recent study by 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 Violet Blue offers hip, friendly, and knowledgeable advice on bringing porn into your sex life: how to find porn you’ll like, from favorite turn-ons and women-friendly DVDs to Podcasts and porn groups on the web; how to reconcile fantasy with real-life desires; and how smart girls can maintain their own 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.

The Ultimate Guide to Sexual Fantasy is a complete guide for readers who want to use sexual fantasies to change old habits, learn new tricks, and make their sex lives more imaginative. With wit and enthusiasm, sex educator Violet Blue encourages couples to talk about and explore fantasies together to deepen erotic intimacy. She takes readers on a tour of the wide world of sexual fantasies, offering expert advice for talking dirty to a partner, playing with toys and dress-up, making homemade porn, and exploring fetishes, sex scenes, phone sex, and much more. Packed with tons of games, resources, and lots of fun, The Ultimate Guide to Sexual Fantasy is the perfect book for daring readers who want to safely turn their sexual fantasies into reality.

How to Turn Your Fantasies Into Reality

The Ultimate Guide to Sexual Fantasy

This is our world, right now: Racist bullies binge on power, science fights to stop the slide into another dark age, women are targets, and the past is forgotten. Under a hostile and cavalier government, protests form online while calls to take action are broadcast on social media. How To Be A Digital Revolutionary illuminates why we're here and what we can do, standing in this moment with devices in hand, as both eyewitnesses and active participants to significant social change. It thoroughly runs down the hazards of taking action to fight injustice and fascism in the digital age, providing readers with a roadmap for effective resistance.How To Be A Digital Revolutionary is woven from clear explainers about murky topics like surveillance and censorship, hands-on strategies to dial back news overwhelm and rage fatigue, first-person accounts in hacking, practical safety advice for protests, and gritty reporting on rights abuses in the digital realm. Here, you'll learn to identify and minimize your surveillance footprint, about anonymity and making separate identities, how to buy or make a burner phone, and to hack-proof your life. Make your phone less of a tracking device, and keep your communication both secure and private. Find out which documents to keep with you at marches, and how to stay safe if a protest gets violent. Discover ways to support your cause when you can't be there in person.Find groups to join and get rid of poison people. Make a digital protest sign that makes emergency calls if it gets confiscated, choose or make a body camera, and learn how to record, photo, and share under stress. Fight filters and blocks, and defy being censored on social media. Find out how to "leak" with tools like SecureDrop, and how to create posts and memes that matter.In a time of rampant injustices, How To Be A Digital Revolutionary offers a powerful new handbook for the resistance, and a way forward for change no matter your level of technical acumen. Praise for Violet Blue:"One of the leading figures in tech writing in the world." --Guardian UKPraise for The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy by Violet Blue: "An illuminating handbook for women." --ELLE Magazine"The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy is a straight-forward how-to for protecting your privacy and undermining the social media settings that want you to share potentially intimate details with the world." --Bitch Magazine"For girls and women in the technological age, this guide to Internet safety is a must-read. It's a young woman's invaluable guide to empowerment, addressing not only the why of keeping strong boundaries but the how." --Foreword Reviews

How to Be a Digital Revolutionary

The G-spot, the powerhouse of female orgasm, is often veiled in mystery and confusion - many believing it to be nothing more than urban legend! With wit and panache, sex educator and bestselling writer Violet blue introduces readers to G-spot play. Beginning with an anatomical guide and incorporating suggestions for couple-play, positions, toys and safer sex, this guide will lead readers to thrilling new sensations and earth-shaking, bed-breaking, gale-force climaxes! Any girl can unleash her own orgasmic superpower with The Smart Girl's Guide to the G-spot.

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Little Black Book vom Küssen

Some temptations are just too tantalizing to ignore- the hot guy at the Apple Genius Bar, the mysterious stranger in the train station who makes you sweat, the nameless faceless stranger at the club whose dirty dancing left you breathless. From quickies, to lost weekends, to three-ways and nights that you'll want to last forever, One Night Only is a collection of delightfully dirty bon mots edited by the one and only Violet Blue. Always surprising, sometimes sweetly romantic, and more than a little shocking, these stories of sudden sex are designed to get your juices flowing and inspire your OWN tale of one night of love, lust, and fantasy! One of the most seductive set of stories ever put to print!

Erotic Encounters

One Night Only

Lovingly handpicked by Violet Blue, these stories are erotic gems, polished to perfection by an expert in erotica. The Best of Women's Erotica 2 is wildly sexy, super smart, and, highly readable. What makes an erotic story "best?" It has that something extra, and a good plot and characters that truly interest you and commands your interest during their trysts, triumphs, and erotic adventures. In the editor's own words, " The result of taking all five years' final selections, over one hundred stories, and choosing the very best--the ones I couldn't ever get out of my head, the ones that turned me (and others) on almost dangerously fast, like a match to gasoline--was worth the wait." Steamy encounters include Adrie Santos' nervy, cautious "Paid for the Pleasure," which scratches more than one itch as a girl decides to let a man pay her--to receive oral sex. And, just when you think you have gender play all wrapped up in a nice and tidy bow, Lee Cairney's "Cruising" takes you trolling with a lesbian late at night in a park where she doesn't belong. What happens to her anonymously in public is as surprising as it is incendiary. Meanwhile, across town, Scarlett French is looking out her "Rear Window," watching her male neighbor and his trick provide full, explicit service for her to enjoy. These are just a few of the carnal classics in this best and boldest of all women's erotica.

Best of Best Women's Erotica 2

Eager readers can get their smooch on with all the different tricks and practices found in Seal It with a Kiss. Best-selling author and columnist Violet Blue helps her audience come up with -- and perfect -- its very own style, from the novice kissers to the make-out queens. Discover how to time a kiss perfectly, how to deliver or receive that amazing first kiss, and how to ask for kisses, both with and without words. Solve problems such as stubble rash, and learn how to handle the kisses that don't turn out as planned. Violet Blue reveals all the kissing do's and don'ts in Seal It with a Kiss, with chapters including "Deliver a Knockout Kiss Techniques," "The Make-Out Artist," "Kissing Games," and many more.

Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Delivering the Knockout Kiss

Seal It with a Kiss

Kissing is an art form. A great kiss can stop traffic, start a five-alarm fire, and feel like Times Square on New Year's Eve. Get your smooch on with all the different tricks and tips in this handy guide. Bestselling author and columnist Violet Blue helps readers choose — and perfect — their very own unforgettable kissing style. Learn how to time a kiss perfectly, how to deliver (and receive) a first kiss, and how to ask for kisses with body language. Recognize when someone wants to kiss you, when to build tension, and when to take your kiss to the next level. Discover all the secrets and foolproof techniques for the perfect kiss in this indispensable guide to an overlooked sensual art.

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