Violet Blue

Bio: Violet Blue is a blogger, award-winning and best-selling author, podcaster, long-running web TV show GETV reporter, technology futurist, and sex-positive pundit in mainstream media (such as CNN and The Tyra Banks Show). Violet is the sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle with a weekly column titled Open Source Sex, and has a podcast of the same name that frequents iTunes’ top ten. Blue is also a 12-year SRL vet and robotic artist since 1996, and a Forbes Web Celeb . With a sex ed and media career spanning a decade , she writes about sexuality for media outlets such as Forbes , O: The Oprah Magazine and UN sponsored international health organization, RH Reality Check — while being a best-selling, award-winning author/editor of over two dozen books with many translations. Violet lectures to cyberlaw classes at UC Berkeley, human sexuality programs at UCSF, tech conferences (ETech and SXSW ), in addition to sex crisis counselors at community teaching institutions and Google Tech Talks . Her podcast is notorious and the most popular, most-downloaded sex podcast in the world: Open Source Sex, seen in Wired , Newsweek (MSNBC) , The Wall Street Journal and more. Blue’s tech blog is techyum . She self-publishes DRM-free audio and ebooks at Digita Publications . Blue has been a professional sex educator and tech futurist for a decade. She is a highly respected online sexual privacy expert ; see also Google Tech Talk: Sexual Privacy , with over a million views. Her training includes over 80 hours of sex ed training courses, extensive reading and viewing curriculum, over 1000 hours of client counseling, and for over seven years she worked closely with women-run adult retailer Good Vibrations’ Education Department to write and develop their training and outreach materials (GV’s education staff trains a range of health care professionals including Planned Parenthood). Violet lectures to human sexuality students at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley and to trainees at national sex crisis and information hotline San Francisco Sex Information . The Erotica Reader’s and Writer’s Association : “The majority of readers will know that Violet Blue is an icon in the world of erotic fiction; being a sex educator, columnist, editor and authoress, as well as having many other roles and accomplishments to her credit. She even reviews books, so the lady must be incredibly gifted.” Other people’s books: Of the above print titles, I wrote the introduction to Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z (Rachel Kramer Bussel ). I am a featured contributor in Naked Ambition (Carly Milne ), Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong (Russ Kick ), Whipped: 20 Erotic Stories of Female Dominance (Carol Queen ), and She’s Such A Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff (Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders), Best Sex Writing 2008 and upcoming Best Sex Writing 2009 edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel , and 101 Sexy Dares by Laura Corn. Forbes: Violet Blue: Forbes The Web Celeb 25 . “From penniless bloggers to geek entrepreneurs, these are the biggest and brightest stars on the Web.” About Violet Blue, Forbes writes, Sex educator Violet Blue is the best-selling, award-winning author of over a dozen books on sex and sexuality, as well as the sex columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. She’s also nearly omnipresent on the Web, whether she’s writing for Metroblogging San Francisco, reporting for Geek Entertainment Television, contributing to Fleshbot.com or hosting Open Source Sex, one of the Internet’s most popular podcasts.” Feature in July 2007 issue of O: The Oprah Magazine — “Eyes Wide Open”, two-page article plus sidebar about porn for women, and celebrity contributor profile with photo side-by-side with Queen Latifah. Popular Open Source Sex podcast has been in and out of the iTunes top ten since inception; profiled in Wired , Newsweek/MSNBC (print + web) and featured on cover of business section of The Wall Street Journal