I work too much. Anyone who knows me knows this. It’s understandable considering that I have some of the greatest jobs on earth! This week I took a little break from the GV desk to head down south. A vacation to do a business trip sounds like a bum rap, but it when it […]

Good Vibrations has a tradition — part of its brand, by now — that I’m quite delighted to uphold when I go out on the speechifying trail to talk about the biz. I’m in the Universal City Hilton as I write this, here to attend the ANE (Adult Novelty Expo) convention: that is, the place sex toys businesses go to find out what new toys will be on the market for us to carry this year. What happens in this part of LA is literally Xmas in July, since what GV’s fine and feisty toy buyer sees and likes right now may well be what you see and like when it’s time to buy your sweetie (or yourself) something sexy. And I’m here to make sure this is true whether or not you shop Good Vibes, because I’m presenting on a panel called Why Smarter Customers are Better Customers and Educating Them Will Make You Money.

There was an area in the studio for people who wished to jack or jill off on-camera, on their own steam or with a toy — perhaps even a fucking machine! Several fuck-machine folks were on hand; the lovely duo from monkeyrocker.com even donated a machine to the cause. And also in this studio area were chairs for me, Your Host, and porn stars Nina Hartley and Michael Soldier, Your Celebrity MCs — though I noticed that midway through the event Michael had gone AWOL and was later found out on the floor, masturbating with a bunch of guys. Nina, too, went missing for a bit, and I was delighted to discover her walking aroud the room being followed by a gaggle of masturbating men. I swear, they looked like duckings. Well, ducklings with hard-ons (I don’t think Konrad Lorentz ever had to deal with that).