Valentine’s Day gifts tend to have a predictable rhythm that nonetheless is tried and true, oftentimes expected and not at all dreary in that you can be creative, there’s some variation on the themes.

Chocolates? Yes! Flowers? Definitely!

In our experience, it’s what goes with the chocolates and flowers that can take Valentine’s Day from being just another gift-giving holiday to something special and memorable.

With that in mind, we offer five surefire Valentine’s Day gift ideas:

1.  Where the Heart Is. The most romantic of all Fatale’s gift sets, this 3-DVD set also has the worthwhile amateur Afterschool Special mixed in. Carolyn Caizzi’s lovely real-life couples come alive in the other videos included in this set. Free Priority Mail shipping in the U.S.

2. Butch/Femme Rules. This 3-DVD set is a mash-up of romance (Special Delivery by Carolyn Caizzi), classic Nina Hartley with the remarkable Miss Sharon Mitchell (Suburban Dykes) and pure lust (Hard Love and How to Fuck in High Heels by Shar Rednour). Free Priority Mail shipping in the U.S.

3. Talk to Me Baby. For an under $30 gift, Shar Rednour’s Talk to Me Baby is perfect for gay or straight, queer or trans, male or female. Everybody should know how to talk dirty, and this is the definitive tape. First class shipping in the U.S. costs only $2.95.

4. Nostalgia. We were talking with an old friend and longtime Fatale Media customer the other day. He told us that his favorite  Courtney Trouble video was Nostalgia. We went back and watched it again and were once again simply delighted! This is an excellent video, a queer porn parody starring all manner of lesbians. Under $30, with domestic shipping starting at $2.95.

5. Sugar High Glitter City. If your sweetie has a sweet tooth, this is definitely the Valentine’s Day gift that will satisfy her yearnings. Nominated for Best Soundtrack, Best All-Girl Feature and Best All-Girl Sex Scene by AVN, this is one of our favorites by far. Another excellent under $30 gift with a reasonable ($2.95) domestic shipping fee.

See all Fatale’s DVDs for even more ideas.

Yours in good love and sex,

Christi and Nan
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com

P.S. Valentine’s Day gift wrap is now available as an option at Fatale Media, as is birthday gift-wrap. Select your option—it’s free—at checkout.

P.P.S. Want it by Valentine’s Day? Order by Friday, February 3rd 2012 for shipping outside the U.S. Order no later than Friday, February 10th 2012 for shipping within the U.S. For overnight shipping, order no later than 4 P.M. PST Monday, February 13th 2012.

It’s not too late to find the perfect gift for that special someone in your life…or your best friend, or that cutie you’ve had your eye on for a while now.

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Order by Monday, December 19th, for free First Class shipping in the U.S., or by Wednesday, December 21st, for Priority Mail shipping. UPS expedited delivery available. See the complete Holiday Shipping Schedule.

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Happy Holidays!

Nan and Christi

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Last month, we wondered if you would masturbate or have sex on a stage, like the people do in Courtney Trouble’s new DVD, Live Sex Show. We asked: Would you ever masturbate or have sex on a stage for an audience?

Lonely Dude, also known as “Straight, single and celibate in the SoCal desert” wrote:

“I most definitely would perform onstage alone,  or with someone else.  But only if there were no video cameras, no still cameras, no cell phones, etc. But in front of a live audience of onlookers, 2 people or 20 or 200,  oh yes, that would be great fun for them and me.  My ideas are far too wild, far too kinky for the dating world,  but I’d put on a great show for spectators if I ever had  the chance.”

Thanks, Lonely Dude. Maybe you want to head to San Francisco for the next Masturbate-a-Thon.

See all the November 2011 poll results.

This month, after having read an interesting article in the New York Times Magazine called “Teaching Good Sex” by Laurie Abraham. Discussing the idea of “introducing pleasure to the peril of sex education,” one seemingly enlightened sex-ed teacher in Philadelphia is quoted as saying: “[T]here is no romanticism or intimacy in porn, porn is strictly sexual.”

We ask: In your opinion, is porn, in the words of one high-school sex-ed teacher, “strictly sexual”?

Vote now! The poll is on Fatale’s home page. We’ll give you the results next month.

Until next time, we wish you happy holidays and deliciously hot sex,

Nan and Christi
www.fatalemedia.com

P.S. Check out one of our favorite, most romantic and intimate porn DVDs, Coming Home by Carolyn Caizzi.

Courtney Trouble has a new DVD out, and it’s in stock at Fatale Media and ready to ship. Called Live Sex Show, the movie was shot live at a San Francisco Masturbate-a-Thon. Lucky for us, there’s a lot more than just solo performances here.

Mostly real-life couples perform in this DVD, but the highlight is a lovely, long scene with Nina Hartley and Jiz Lee. It’s sexy and humorous at the same time, worth every moment.

Like the event, Live Sex Show benefits the Center for Sex and Culture, run by Carol Queen and Robert Lawrence. You may also know Carol and Robert as the main stars of Bend Over Boyfriend.

You can watch the trailer, see pictures and order the DVD now at Fatale Media. The new DVD is in stock and ships within 24 hours.

Yours in good love and sex,

Christi and Nan
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com

Susie Bright and Honey Lee Cottrell. Credit: Mariette Pathy Allen

Imagine our surprise to learn that Honey Lee Cottrell was being evicted from the apartment she’s had since the early days of On Our Backs.

On Our Backs was the seminal lesbian porn magazine first published by Deborah Sundahl and Myrna Elena. Nan Kinney became publisher not long after that first issue came out, and Susie Bright became editor.

Susie and Honey Lee shared that apartment back in the early days of OOB. Many of the magazine’s sexy shoots took place in it or nearby.

Susie’s piece is an amazing chronicle of the OOB shoots and that apartment on Bessie Street in San Francisco.

There are fabulous pictures in this piece. One in particular, The Voyeur shoot at the York Theater, with Susie, Honey Lee and Nan, brought a big smile to our faces. Nan’s hair!

Read Susie’s piece here:
Annals of Bessie Street: From Revolution to Eviction

<Snip>This Friday I am losing my long-standing home in San Francisco: 25A Bessie Street. My first books Herotica and Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World were written inside this little nest. I grew up as a young woman in this apartment, my daughter grew up here from infancy to adulthood. The… <snip> Read more.

Here are two good articles about On Our Backs, should you want to know more:

Susie Bright’s remembrance of On Our Backs:
http://susiebright.blogs.com/History_of_OOB.pdf

The Wikipedia article about On Our Backs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Our_Backs

Thank you, Susie, for this important piece. We’ve been thinking of you and Honey Lee and that Bessie Street apartment.

Yours in good love and sex,

Christi and Nan
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com

P.S. Check out all Fatale Media’s sexy DVDs.

Photo credit: Honey Lee Cottrell

Susie wrote:

May, 1991: Close to Bessie Street was a dilapadated grand movie theater, called “The York,”on 24th Street, which had seen better days. Nan  Kinney, Honey, and I went over early one morning while they were cleaning up and  asked the dyke ticket-taker if we could shoot there… and if she’d like to play  the “voyeur” for a story we were illustrating.

From Susie Bright’s Blog: Annals of Bessie Street: From Revolution to Eviction

September 27, 2011

We love your letters and notes, your tweets and retweets, your FB mentions. Thank you.

Here’s a note we received last week:

“Thanks for offering these DVDs for sale. We have difficulty obtaining DVDs with lesbian content in Australia.  Very few titles available. So strange given that Sydney has probably the largest Mardi Gras parade in the world!”

–Priscilla in Australia

Thanks, Priscilla, for your kind words. Much appreciated.

With heat waves sweeping the U.S. west to east, and with air conditioning not always the answer (we don’t have one), we thought we’d offer up a few summertime sex tips:

–Make love outside (up on the roof or out on the fire escape or out back in a tent)

–Sleep outside so you’ll be in the mood for more sex outside

–Take a cold shower together…the cool buzz will last the rest of the night

–Go skinny-dipping, especially good if you’ve got a place by the water or a friend with a pool; you can put cold water in the hot tub too!

–Go to the movies, make out in the back-row seats (this is a time-tested New York City solution to heat waves).

Want to add to this list? Post your comment here. We want to know what you do!

Yours in good love and sex,

Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com

   P.S. Check out Take Her Down for the naked lesbians outdoor swimming pool scene.

P.P.S. Did you know? Buy three or more DVDs at Fatale Media and get free shipping in the U.S.

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Best-selling titles:
The Crash Pad Gift Set – Shine Louise shines!
Bend Over Boyfriend – the girl-on-boy butt-fucking best-selling how-to
Coming Home – sweet lesbian lust from Carolyn Caizzi
Hard Love and How to Fuck in High Heels – hard-driving “best lesbian porn” from S.I.R. Video

It’s the last two days for Fatale Media’s Gay Pride Special – 10% off all orders and free shipping in the U.S. Plus, Fatale’s specially priced gift sets offer up even more savings – 25% or more!

Hot tickets include Hard Love and How to Fuck in High Heels by the inimitable Shar Rednour and Jackie Strano of S.I.R. Video. (This pic, finger sucking, is from Hard Love.)

If you’ve never seen S.I.R. Video’s Sugar High Glitter City, that’s worth checking out too.

Celebrate pride! Celebrate sexy!