Live Girl Review offers up reviews of sexual culture and media: books, art, and yes - porno and sex toys. Not always well-behaved and tasteful, but always smart and critical, while never losing sight of that whole “fun” thing.The show is hosted by Audacia Ray and features special guests like sex educator Jamye Waxman. In addition to being available on LiveGirlReview.com and via RSS, the video show is also available on iTunes. Live Girl Review was launched in November 2007 as a short format show; one product was featured in each two to three minute episode. After seventy episodes, the show transitioned into a longer format in August 2008. Each Marathon Episode features a book, movie, and sex toy review, as well as features like sex tips, products to avoid, and a fan girl moment, as well as giveaways for commenters.Marathon Episodes are posted on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month, with the occasional Quickie in between.ABOUT THE HOSTAudacia Ray edits the Village Voice sexuality blog Naked City and produces the video show Naked City TV. She is the author of Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing In on Internet Sexploration and is the award-winning director and producer of the porn feature The Bi Apple. Audacia is a former sex worker who was an executive editor at $pread magazine for three years and is now on the board of advocacy organization Sex Work Awareness, for which she edits the public education blog Sex Work 101. She has blogged on her website WakingVixen.com for four years. Dacia has a BA from the New School, a MA from Columbia University and has used her degrees to teach Human Sexuality at Rutgers University. She is based in New York and can be emailed at dacia[at]livegirlreview[dot]com.
Here is what's in the show this week!ReviewsBook:Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture by Damon Brown (check out the Porn and Pong website too)Sex Toy: The Sasi, an exclusive from Babeland. If you shop at babeland.com and type in the code "livegirl" at checkout, you'll get a 10% discount on whatever you purchase - not just the Sasi.Smut: Good Dyke Porn - check out the monthly subscription website or you can give the Good Dyke Porn DVD a whirl o...
Yay, its the third episode! Unfortunately, Live Girl Review had a bit of a set back last week - the show has been deleted from iTunes. I think it's probably because of “strong prevalence of sexual content,” which is listed in their terms of service as a reason shows may not be included. I haven't gotten a response back from iTunes Abuse - if anyone has suggestions for me, please let me know. It would be a real bummer if the show wasn't on iTunes. In less crappy news: the winner of the goodies ...
Thanks for all your lovely comments on Episode 1! In response to your suggestions, I added transitional graphics and music, I hope it makes the show more watchable. There are a few things you can do to make Live Girl Review popular and me feel loved - comment here (and win free stuff), review the show on iTunes, and click on the links below to check out the things I review. If you buy anything at Babeland, type in the code "livegirl" when you checkout and you'll get a 10% discount. I'm working...
Here's what you'll find in the episode!ReviewsBook: Dagmar Herzog's Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American PoliticsSex Toy: Magma Toys' PhoenixMovie: Madison Young's Writers and Rockstars -- you can also see my review of her film Undone here on Live Girl ReviewOne Hot Minute - new feature!My good pal sex educator Jamye Waxman is now the sex tip correspondent for Live Girl Review! In this episode, she dishes on deep dicking - or rather, shallow dicking.Jamye is the ...
Audacia Ray reviews Porn Nation: Conquering America's #1 Addiction, a first hand account of porn/sex addiction by Michael Leahy.
Audacia Ray reviews Ladies of the Night: A Historical and Personal Perspective on the Oldest Profession in the World, by Gene Simmons (yes, that Gene Simmons)
Audacia Ray reviews Divas of San Francisco: Portraits of Transsexual Women , a soft cover photo book (read: actually affordable) by David Steinberg.So I lied about the twice a week thing. I'm putting up a video once a week until mid-August, when I'll be introducing a new format for Live Girl Review.
Ah! It's been too long! But I haven't abandoned ship, I've just been insanely busy and had to let Live Girl Review fall quiet for a while. As I say in the video, I'm coming off of my first semester of teaching at the college level - human sexuality, of course. I've also been very busy with my new job as the editor of the Village Voice sexuality blog Naked City, for which I also produce a weekly video show, which goes live on Mondays. But, no more excuses! More episodes of Live Girl Review are ...
Audacia Ray reviews Madison Young's Undone.
Audacia Ray reviews Special Delivery, a lesbian/queer porn DVD lovingly crafted by the folks at Early to Bed in Chicago.