GOOD RELEASING AWARDED THE PORYES EUROPEAN FEMINIST PORN AWARD FOR “GUSH: THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE G-SPOT AND FEMALE EJACULATION”

Prestigious “Oyster Award” Goes to Good Releasing for Explicit-Ed Excellence

San Francisco, CA — (July 7, 2011):  Good Releasing was recently honored by PorYes, the Feminist Porn Award in Europe for its explicit-education film, Gush: The Official Guide to the G-Spot & Female Ejaculation.

The famed “Oyster Award” will be presented on October 15th in Berlin, Germany to films that exemplify the principles of feminist porn.  PorYes was founded by Sexclusivitaeten, the first women-oriented sex enterprise and sexual communication centre in Europe, together with the Freudenfluss network, with the goal of supporting positive sexual images that empower and excite women.  Their criteria includes the portrayal of authentic female pleasure, ethical work conditions, the inclusion of diverse bodies and genders, and the participation of women in the production of the film as producers, directors, or camerawomen.

Female-directed and penned and hosted by Good Vibrations’ Staff Sexologist Dr. Carol Queen, Gush features real-life couples, adult stars, and first-time performers in intimate explicit settings.  With intense chemistry and communication, the Pleasure-Ed Series doesn’t just describe how to have better sex, it shows it too.  Nominated for the 2010 AVN “Best New Video Production Company” Award, Good Releasing offers its diverse line of educational films including Heads Up: the Official Guide to Fellatio, and Going Down: the Official Guide to Cunnilingus.

The third film in the Pleasure-Ed series of explicit sex education movies penned and hosted by Staff Sexologist Dr. Carol Queen; Gush features high production values and genuine enthusiasm.  This high-quality feature runs 90 minutes and combines crucial information with searing sex scenes that help the viewer find their own sexual style and enjoy it with confidence.  Directed and edited by Jackie Strano and Shar Rednour of S.I.R. Productions, Gush is lauded for its fine aesthetic sense.

Nominated for 2010 AVN Awards’ “Best New Video Production Company”, Good Releasing offers various lines of edgy, alternative, and educational films that provide a exciting option for people looking for original alternatives to mainstream porn.  Representing independent artists creating authentic and diverse erotic content, Good Releasing presents three video production lines, “Reel Queer Productions,” “HeartCore Films” and the “Pleasure-Ed Series.”  The company also distributes Blue Artichoke’s Matinee, and is the North American distributor for Pink & White Production‘s award-winning titles. In April, Good Releasing received three Feminist Porn Awards in Toronto, produced by Good For Her.

For more information about PorYes visit: poryes.de.

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Media Contact: Camilla Lombard
Events and Publicity Manager
(415) 974-8985 ext.201
camillal@goodvibes.com

GOOD RELEASING NOMINATED FOR TEN FEMINIST PORN AWARDS IN TORONTO

New Line of Erotic Films Receives Highest Honors from Sex-Positive Porn Awards

San Francisco, CA — (March 17, 2011): Good Vibrations (goodvibes.com), the legendary San Francisco-based company that takes pride in providing accurate information on sexuality and toys for grown-ups, is proud to announce the that its sister company, Good Releasing, was recently nominated for ten Feminist Porn Awards in Toronto for its films.

The nominees are: “Billy Castro Does the Mission” (Reel Queer Productions); “Ciao Bella: A Woman’s POV” (Reel Queer Productions); “Femmetastic” (Reel Queer Productions); “Heads Up: The Official Guide to Fellatio” (Pleasure-Ed); “Roulette Toronto” (Reel Queer Productions); “Seven Minutes in Heaven: Fuck Yeah!” (Reel Queer Productions); “Tight Places: A Drop of Color” (Reel Queer Productions); “Pregnant with Desire” (HeartCore Films) and “My Own Master” (HeartCore Films) were also nominated.  Good Releasing Distributes “Crash Pad Series Volume 6: Wide Open” (Pink & White Productions) which was also nominated.

Nominated for the 2010 AVN “Best New Video Production Company” Award, Good Vibrations’ sister company Good Releasing offers various lines of edgy, alternative, and educational films that provide a exciting option for people looking for original alternatives to mainstream porn.  Representing independent artists creating authentic and diverse erotic content, Good Releasing presents three video production lines, “Reel Queer Productions,” “HeartCore Films” and the “Pleasure-Ed Series.”

Started in 2006, The Feminist Porn Awards are produced by Good For Her, a Toronto, Canada based feminist sexuality education centre and sex store.  This event was started when Good For Her realized it wasn’t enough to criticize adult films for not adequately representing women’s – and in many cases, men’s – sexuality.  The Feminist Porn Awards were created with the goals of celebrating ethical, feminist porn, exposing this work to a larger audience, and creating community amongst filmmakers, performers and audience members.  Since starting the Feminist Porn Awards, Good For Her has handed out over 70 awards to movies, short films, websites, directors, heartthrobs, boundary breakers and visionaries, while shining a light on the astoundingly sexy work of these feminist artists and filmmakers.

As porn star and performance artist Annie Sprinkle famously said, “The answer to bad porn isn’t no porn…it’s to try and make better porn!”

Good Releasing offers various educational films through its Pleasure-Ed line featuring such topics as fellatio, cunnilingus, and the much-anticipated, soon to be released film “Gush: The Official Guide to the G-Spot and Female Ejaculation.”  In addition, Good Releasing features two other lines: HeartCore Films (edgy, creative erotic films primarily for heterosexual and bisexual audiences) and Reel Queer Productions (LGBTQ offerings). These two lines won three awards at last year’s 2010 Feminist Porn Awards.

About Good Vibrations
Good Vibrations is the San Francisco-based retailer trusted for more than three decades to provide a comfortable, safe environment for finding sex-positive products and educational materials to enhance one’s sex life. Good Vibrations offers its products through its retail stores and website: goodvibes.com.

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Categories: Woman-directed, Sex Education

Cast: Jiz Lee, Dylan Ryan, Mickey Mod, Syd Blakovich, Sophia St. James, Altair Shadow, Gloria (GV), Maxwell Silver, Mirabelle Hayes, and Dr. Carol Queen and Michelle Meow in non-sex roles.

Box Cover | Photo Zip

PorYes Euro Feminist Porn Awards Winner

Description:

The G-spot most certainly does exist and this movie will help you find it! Dr. Carol Queen conducts a guided tour of G-spot stimulation in a warm, accessible manner. Featuring show-and-tell sex professionals and real-life couples, plus a lively radio call-in show with real people asking real questions, Gush gives you the tools to enjoy your own hunt for this pleasurable erotic area. Dr. Queen provides expert information about anatomy, arousal, and techniques, demystifying the G-spot and female ejaculation!

About Pleasure-Ed:
Smart, sexy, fun, and permission-giving, the Pleasure-Ed series doesn’t just tell you how to have better sex, it shows you too. This series helps you find your own sexual style and enjoy it with confidence. The Pleasure-Ed Series is a continuing collection of explicit sexual education films that include a wide range of informational and instructional content to inspire and enhance sex lives.

Dr Carol Queen, Good Vibrations Staff Sexologist and Co-Founder of the Center for Sex and Culture, encourages you to explore and enjoy your sexuality. Discover the possibilities of pleasure as she teaches you tips and techniques with the help of her expert friends and colleagues. All this information is illustrated with hot, explicit sex from professional performers and real-life couples to inspire your own sexual adventures. Intimate and full of chemistry and connection, Going Down in the first installment in the Official Guide series.

Reviews

“Basically, this is awesome, you should buy it, and then you should spend an evening in either on your own or with your partner and find your G-Spot and figure out how to ejaculate. Or, if you know how to do that, do it again while watching other women do it. Or buy it for all your friends who are always like, “Where’s my G-Spot? How do I have great orgasms like you?”
- Sailor Ripley, Fleshbot.com

“Perfect for couples.”
- Bambi Hotchkiss, XBIZ Premiere

“If it’s anyone in the world we’d expect to know all about this – and to make a video on the subject – it’s Queen and Good Vibes.”
-Keith Bowers, SF Weekly

“Like Nessie and multiple orgasms, female ejaculation has always had a mystic reputation. Can women really shoot it like the boys? Does it matter? Yes, yes, and oh yes. Start taking notes on when and how with Good Vibrations’ newest instructional release, GUSH: The Official Guide to the G-spot and Female Ejaculation.”
-Amber Schadewald, San Francisco Bay Guardian

“As I would expect from a film made by Good Vibrations, the people featured in the film are diverse in body size, gender, gender of partners and ethnicity. Gush: The Official Guide to the G-Spot and Female Ejaculation is an excellent sexual education tool. Everyone should learn more about the G-Spot and female ejaculation and this video is a great place to start. I especially liked the extras.”
-Kathy Belge, Lesbian life on About.com

Good Releasing Announces Exclusive DVD Distributorship of the Pink & White Productions Film Catalog

Good Releasing Proudly Offers Best Selling Hardcore Dyke Film Series by Critically Acclaimed Filmmaker Shine Louise Houston

SAN FRANCISCO (January 6, 2010): Good Releasing is pleased to announce that it will be the exclusive distributor of Pink & White Production’s entire catalogue. Pink & White Productions is the award-winning porn company founded and directed by multi-award winner and Good Vibrations alum, Shine Louise Houston. Good Releasing will act as the exclusive distributor for the company’s catalog of best selling feature movies and web series, including the debut of Crash Pad Series Volume 6.

Good Releasing offers various lines of adult titles and educational films and has won recognition by the AVN Nominations Committee. Representing independent artists creating authentic and diverse erotic content, Good Releasing is proud to support and promote Pink & White Productions through its distribution channels.

Pink & White Productions is credited with inspiring a new porn paradigm with films that embrace gender-fluidity and authentic queer desire. Shine Louise Houston was honored at the PorYes Feminist Porn Awards in Berlin and noted as Feminist Porn Awards’ “Visionary”, as well as Curve Magazine’s Sex Curator, adding authentic representation to queer sexualities that spans marginalized communities of color, gender expression and sexual desire, body politics and BDSM with strikingly beautiful cinematography, humor, and realism. The distribution deal comes at a time of company growth for both Pink & White Productions and Good Releasing.

Shine Louise Houston says, “Pink & White is excited to be teaming up with Good Vibrations to distribute all our current titles. It’s especially significant for me to be working with Good Vibes because I conceived the idea for Pink & White while I was a SESA. It feels like a great homecoming.”

Houston’s films have received many awards and nominations from industry taste-makers AVN and the Feminist Porn Awards. Crash Pad Series Volume 1 was awarded Best Dyke Sex Film; Volume 2’s scene with Julie and Michelle Aston was recognized with a Best Trans Sex Scene. Volume 3 saw an AVN Nomination for Best Solo Sex Scene with Dylan Ryan. The 4th and 5th Volumes are recognized with nominations from the Feminist Porn Awards and Audience Choice award for a pivotal gender-bending scene with Syd Blakovich and Mickey Mod.

Jackie Strano, Producer/Director for Good Releasing and COO of Good Vibrations explains, “We couldn’t imagine a better partnership. Pink & White was born of a shared philosophy of diverse sexual representation and authentic on-screen chemistry, and they have always been great sellers and customer favorites for us. We are excited to share these movies with a larger audience and offer Pink & White the means of doing so.”

Four feature titles include Houston’s debut film “The Crash Pad” released in 2006 and a best selling video earning several awards for its scene with Jiz Lee and Syd Blakovich. “Superfreak” features an award-winning scene with Dana DeArmond, Princess Donna and Lorelei Lee. Houston’s third title “The Wild Search”, a mockumentary comedy features an award-winning trans three-way with Papi Coxxx, Will Thrustwell and Jiz Lee. The director’s fourth feature, “CHAMPION: Love Hurts” stars MMA wrestler/porn star Syd Blakovich and was awarded Feminist Porn Awards “Movie of the Year” as well as nominated for the 2010 AVN Awards “Best Video Feature”.

Retailers can now order Houston’s four feature films and six compilations through Good Releasing’s distribution line by calling (877) 453-7676 or emailing sales@goodvibeswholesale. Good Releasing can be found online at goodreleasing.com.

Titles:
• CHAMPION: Love Hurts
• The Wild Search
• Superfreak
• The Crash Pad
• Crash Pad Series Volume 1
• Crash Pad Series Volume 2: Unlocked
• Crash Pad Series Volume 3: Through the Keyhole
• Crash Pad Series Volume 4: Rope Burn
• Crash Pad Series Volume 5: The Revolving Door
• Upcoming! Crash Pad Series Volume 6: Wide Open

About Good Releasing
Good Releasing is the sister company of Good Vibrations. This new releasing company encompasses 3 new video production lines, “Reel Queer Productions,” “HeartCore Films” and the “Pleasure-Ed Series.” Nominated for the 2010 AVN “Best New Video Production Company” Award, Good Vibrations’ sister company Good Releasing offers various lines of educational films through its Pleasure-Ed line featuring such topics as fellatio, cunnilingus, G-spot stimulation, and anal play, plus two other film lines, HeartCore (edgy, creative erotic films primarily for heterosexual and bisexual audiences) and Reel Queer Productions (LGBTQ offerings). These two lines won three awards at the recently-held 2010 Feminist Porn Awards.

Good Vibrations is the San Francisco-based retailer trusted for more than three decades to provide a comfortable, safe environment for finding sex-positive products and educational materials to enhance one’s sex life. Good Vibrations offers its products through its retail stores and website: www.goodvibes.com.

Director: Courtney Trouble

Nominated 2011 Feminist Porn Awards

Categories: Queer, Women-Directed

Cast: April Flores, Jiz Lee, Dia Zerva, Dylan Ryan, Courtney Trouble, Tina Horn, Drew DeVeaux, Judy Minx, Scout, Lascivia Liberty, River Turner, Wordman

Front and Back Covers | Photo zip

Description:
Greetings from Toronto! I was in town for the Feminist Porn Awards and of course brought my camera! Hot to see Judy Minx again, I headed to her room for a quickie which escalated into an all-night love affair full of perversions and queer femme fetishes! River Turner led Jiz Lee & Drew DeVeaux in a dance routine which turned into a three-way genderqueer fuckfest. April Flores called an escort service for a gorgeous, leggy, brunette femme — and the lovely Dylan Ryan obliged with a hard steel Njoy Eleven sex toy ready to serve April’s soft, sexy body. Lascivia Liberty and Scout fucked in a sunny, hot pink bedroom with lots of toys and orgasms, anal, and kink! This was one wet ride with ejaculation in every scene! I hope you enjoy these hot, diverse, hardcore vignettes proving once again that hot queers can be found anywhere and everywhere… will your town be next? xoxo, Courtney Trouble

2010, 90 minutes, single disk.

Reviews:

Forthcoming

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact: Camilla Lombard
Events and Publicity Manager
Good Vibrations
(415) 974-8985 ext.201
camillal@goodvibes.com

www.goodvibes.com

Good Vibrations and sister film company Good Releasing nominated for multiple AVN Awards

SAN FRANCISCO (November 29, 2010): Just weeks before Good Vibrations opens its newest store in downtown San Francisco, the iconic company has been recognized by the adult industry with a nomination for Best Retail Chain, and its Polk Street (San Francisco) store in particular singled out for nomination as Best Retail Store in the West. GoodVibes.com, its online presence, has also been nominated for Best Retail Website.

These are nominations for the most prestigious awards in the adult industry, the 2011 AVN Awards, sponsored by Adult Video News. Dubbed the “Oscars of Adult Entertainment” and recognizing companies and products as well as movies and performers, the AVN Awards mark the best and most notable in adult entertainment.

Also honored with nominations are several 2010 movie productions by Good Vibrations’ sister company, Good Releasing, which offers various lines of adult titles and educational films. Representing independent artists creating authentic and diverse erotic content, all three of Good Releasing’s award-nominated lines — Pleasure-Ed, HeartCore, and Reel Queer — have won recognition by the AVN Nominations Committee.

Jackie Strano, Producer/Director for Good Releasing and COO Good Vibrations says, “We are very pleased and proud of these nominations. This past year was very busy and it’s rewarding to have the industry recognize those efforts. Just wait until you see what 2011 has to offer.”

The Pleasure-Ed Series’ Going Down: The Official Guide to Cunnilingus has been nominated for Best Educational Release of 2010. Hosted and scripted by Good Vibrations Staff Sexologist Dr. Carol Queen, Pleasure-Ed movies showcase real couples and erotic performers eager to represent sex in a hot and informative way that will enhance viewers’ sexual knowledge and pleasure.

HeartCore Films, nominated for Best New Line, released titles which garnered six AVN Award nominations: Madison Young’s The Curse of Macbeth, a post-apocalyptic erotic envisioning of the classic Shakespearian tragedy, made the Best BDSM category; Carlos Batts’ Dangerous Curves, featuring a buxom cast including his big, beautiful wife and muse April Flores, has won a nod in the Best Specialty/Other category (this film was also a 2010 winner at the Feminist Porn Awards, where it was awarded “Most Deliciously Diverse Cast”); and a Best Music nomination (score by the Meatmen) goes to Turbo Rock, revisiting the raunchy era of rock as conceived and directed by renowned fetish photographer and award-winning director Dave Naz.

Finally, Mandy Candy, which upon release garnered a 4 1/2 star rating from AVN, racks up three nominations: Best High-End All-Sex Release, Best Videography and Best Editing. Kimberly Kane directs, showcasing her friend and inspiration, the incandescent Mandy Morbid, in a scorching alt-porn tour de force.

Reel Queer Productions gets a nod for Best Pro-Am Release. Courtney Trouble’s Seven Minutes in Heaven: Coming Out! is an unscripted sex-fest where the amateur cast picks their own partners, their own sex toys and their own ways of getting off. Also nominated for 2010 Feminist Porn Awards, Seven Minutes represents the first-ever gonzo queer film series in an industry already amply-supplied with the heterosexual version.

“A lot time, effort and passion was put towards each of these productions,” says Good Releasing Producer Coyote Days. “It’s inspiring to see each of them acknowledged by the authority in adult video.”

In addition to these nominations, Good Vibrations’ original founder Joani Blank will be inducted into the ranks of the AVN Hall of Fame; marking the first time sex toy manufacturers and retailers have been included in the Hall of Fame Founders Branch, she will serve as one of four Pleasure Products honorees (and the only retailer). The AVN Hall of Fame adds new members each year, honoring the legends of the adult entertainment industry. For her pioneering commitment to women’s pleasure (and pleasure products), Joani, who founded Good Vibrations in 1977, receives richly-deserved recognition as an adult industry visionary.

The AVN Awards are the culminating event of the annual Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas (January 6-9, 2011). Good Vibrations Staff Sexologist Dr. Carol Queen joins a panel discussion, “In the Company of Women,” on Friday, January 7, 1:00-2:30 pm. The AVN Awards ceremony will be held on Saturday, January 8, at the Pearl Theatre inside the Palms Hotel & Casino. Tori Black, 2010 Female Performer of the Year, and Riley Steele co-host. For more about the awards, please visit avnawards.com.

ABOUT GOOD VIBRATIONS
Good Vibrations is the San Francisco-based retailer trusted for more than three decades to provide a comfortable, safe environment for finding sex-positive products and educational materials to enhance one’s sex life. Good Vibrations offers products through its website (goodvibes.com) and retail stores.