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Peaches Christ and Dildo Juggling at Queen of Hearts Ball and Fairytale Pleasure Faire - Today's Calendar Pick

Happy Masturbation Month!

Sunday Dispatch: Masturbate-A-Thon 2008

Last Night: Laughing Squid's Second Annual Unholiday Party

(Mark Growden Trio perform live at the Unholiday Party) Laughing Squid's Second Annual Unholiday Party "SOMA Venue Without a Name" December 27, 2008 Words, Photos and Video by Tamara Palmer Better than: Reading about it afterwards on Twitter Like its multi-tentacled namesake, Laughing Squ ... More >>

Dildo Storage and Quality-of-Life Orgasms at Good Vibrations' Headquarters

A typical Good Vibrations cubicle.By Bonnie Ruberg For over three decades Good Vibrations has been a Bay Area pillar of sex positivity. With three chic, welcoming local stores - one on Valencia, one on Polk, and another out in Berkeley - these days Good Vibes it synonymous with helpful health info ... More >>

Want Some Candye?

A typical Good Vibrations cubicle.By Bonnie Ruberg For over three decades Good Vibrations has been a Bay Area pillar of sex positivity. With three chic, welcoming local stores - one on Valencia, one on Polk, and another out in Berkeley - these days Good Vibes it synonymous with helpful health info ... More >>

The Sex Beat

A typical Good Vibrations cubicle.By Bonnie Ruberg For over three decades Good Vibrations has been a Bay Area pillar of sex positivity. With three chic, welcoming local stores - one on Valencia, one on Polk, and another out in Berkeley - these days Good Vibes it synonymous with helpful health info ... More >>

Dildo Juggler! Dildo Juggler!

A typical Good Vibrations cubicle.By Bonnie Ruberg For over three decades Good Vibrations has been a Bay Area pillar of sex positivity. With three chic, welcoming local stores - one on Valencia, one on Polk, and another out in Berkeley - these days Good Vibes it synonymous with helpful health info ... More >>

On Your Night Stand

A typical Good Vibrations cubicle.By Bonnie Ruberg For over three decades Good Vibrations has been a Bay Area pillar of sex positivity. With three chic, welcoming local stores - one on Valencia, one on Polk, and another out in Berkeley - these days Good Vibes it synonymous with helpful health info ... More >>

Fun Naked People

A typical Good Vibrations cubicle.By Bonnie Ruberg For over three decades Good Vibrations has been a Bay Area pillar of sex positivity. With three chic, welcoming local stores - one on Valencia, one on Polk, and another out in Berkeley - these days Good Vibes it synonymous with helpful health info ... More >>

Reading Series Showdown

A typical Good Vibrations cubicle.By Bonnie Ruberg For over three decades Good Vibrations has been a Bay Area pillar of sex positivity. With three chic, welcoming local stores - one on Valencia, one on Polk, and another out in Berkeley - these days Good Vibes it synonymous with helpful health info ... More >>

Perverts Put Out

A typical Good Vibrations cubicle.By Bonnie Ruberg For over three decades Good Vibrations has been a Bay Area pillar of sex positivity. With three chic, welcoming local stores - one on Valencia, one on Polk, and another out in Berkeley - these days Good Vibes it synonymous with helpful health info ... More >>

Call of the Wild

A typical Good Vibrations cubicle.By Bonnie Ruberg For over three decades Good Vibrations has been a Bay Area pillar of sex positivity. With three chic, welcoming local stores - one on Valencia, one on Polk, and another out in Berkeley - these days Good Vibes it synonymous with helpful health info ... More >>

Just Desserts

Cake offers straight women a comfortable woman-friendly place to be sexy. So why does it feel so retro?

Best Place to Watch Pornos (and Be Considered Intellectual)

Cake offers straight women a comfortable woman-friendly place to be sexy. So why does it feel so retro?

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Cake offers straight women a comfortable woman-friendly place to be sexy. So why does it feel so retro?

Embrace the Dude

Lebowski fever at Oaklandish

Mr. Roboto

One man's treasure

House of Tudor

Outsider art, techno puppets, and Body Manipulations

Self-Love

Good Vibrations presents "Wankers!," a video tribute to National Masturbation Month

House Of Tudor

Bebel Gilberto; Phantom Chords; Dadafest; Go-Nuts

Night Crawler

You're Not in Moraga Anymore

House Of Tudor

The Make-Up, Ute Lemper, Erotica USA

Night Crawler

At the Cotillion

Savage Love

At the Cotillion

Night & Day

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Night + Day

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Night Crawler

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Night + Day

At the Cotillion

The House of Tudor

At the Cotillion

Racket

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Night+Day

At the Cotillion

Night Crawler

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Night+Day

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Night Crawler

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Night+Day

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Cinematic Sex Mavericks

At the Cotillion

Real Resolutions

How locals plan to make life changes in the new year.

Behind the Scenes at Masturbate-a-Thon 2010 (Pics NSFW)

All photos | Gretchen Robinette Lady Grace, volunteer stage manager and full-time dominatrix, takes center stage​ View more pics in Gretchen Robinette's 10th Annual Masturbate-A-Thon (Really NSFW) slideshow. It was 11 a.m. on Sunday morning, and the masturbatorium was quiet. The chairs in the ... More >>

Not Totally Amateur

All photos | Gretchen Robinette Lady Grace, volunteer stage manager and full-time dominatrix, takes center stage​ View more pics in Gretchen Robinette's 10th Annual Masturbate-A-Thon (Really NSFW) slideshow. It was 11 a.m. on Sunday morning, and the masturbatorium was quiet. The chairs in the ... More >>

Film Showtimes for the week of September 22-28, 2010

All photos | Gretchen Robinette Lady Grace, volunteer stage manager and full-time dominatrix, takes center stage​ View more pics in Gretchen Robinette's 10th Annual Masturbate-A-Thon (Really NSFW) slideshow. It was 11 a.m. on Sunday morning, and the masturbatorium was quiet. The chairs in the ... More >>

Thursday's Pick: Independent Erotic Film Festival

​Independent Erotic Film FestivalCastro Theatre7 p.m., $10-$20We can always count on Good Vibrations for two things: to help us learn more about sex and sexuality - and to keep us from taking it all too seriously. So it is with the Independent Erotic Film Festival. Every year the San Francisco ret ... More >>

The Hard Questions About Sex, Consent, and Free Will

​Independent Erotic Film FestivalCastro Theatre7 p.m., $10-$20We can always count on Good Vibrations for two things: to help us learn more about sex and sexuality - and to keep us from taking it all too seriously. So it is with the Independent Erotic Film Festival. Every year the San Francisco ret ... More >>

Ground Zero in the Culture Wars

​Independent Erotic Film FestivalCastro Theatre7 p.m., $10-$20We can always count on Good Vibrations for two things: to help us learn more about sex and sexuality - and to keep us from taking it all too seriously. So it is with the Independent Erotic Film Festival. Every year the San Francisco ret ... More >>

Green Is the New Hot

​Independent Erotic Film FestivalCastro Theatre7 p.m., $10-$20We can always count on Good Vibrations for two things: to help us learn more about sex and sexuality - and to keep us from taking it all too seriously. So it is with the Independent Erotic Film Festival. Every year the San Francisco ret ... More >>

Cinematic Quickies

​Independent Erotic Film FestivalCastro Theatre7 p.m., $10-$20We can always count on Good Vibrations for two things: to help us learn more about sex and sexuality - and to keep us from taking it all too seriously. So it is with the Independent Erotic Film Festival. Every year the San Francisco ret ... More >>

Run, Don't Crawl

​Independent Erotic Film FestivalCastro Theatre7 p.m., $10-$20We can always count on Good Vibrations for two things: to help us learn more about sex and sexuality - and to keep us from taking it all too seriously. So it is with the Independent Erotic Film Festival. Every year the San Francisco ret ... More >>

Overtaken by Darkness

​Independent Erotic Film FestivalCastro Theatre7 p.m., $10-$20We can always count on Good Vibrations for two things: to help us learn more about sex and sexuality - and to keep us from taking it all too seriously. So it is with the Independent Erotic Film Festival. Every year the San Francisco ret ... More >>

Sex Work and Society

​Independent Erotic Film FestivalCastro Theatre7 p.m., $10-$20We can always count on Good Vibrations for two things: to help us learn more about sex and sexuality - and to keep us from taking it all too seriously. So it is with the Independent Erotic Film Festival. Every year the San Francisco ret ... More >>

Dirty Fun -- Fox News Says So

​Independent Erotic Film FestivalCastro Theatre7 p.m., $10-$20We can always count on Good Vibrations for two things: to help us learn more about sex and sexuality - and to keep us from taking it all too seriously. So it is with the Independent Erotic Film Festival. Every year the San Francisco ret ... More >>