PayPal and Sex

Some of you may have noticed with have moved from selling our calendar through PayPal to Audacia Ray’s store on her site Waking Vixen. This change was made last Monday after our account had been put on review for the second time by PayPal.

Last Sunday we received an email from PayPal stating that our account was under review and they were requiring additional information for four transactions that occurred on October 1st, 2nd and 3rd. We were able to provide the additional information they requested and our account was fully reinstated within the hour. This however was the second review we had received since opening the account. When we first opened this PayPal account we received a phone call from them questioning what exactly we would be selling.

We believe what has caused PayPal to twice now review our account is the word “sex” in both our email address and the actual calendar title. Because of this we made the decision last Monday to move the purchase transactions over to Dacia’s store. We were lucky that someone involved with this calendar already had a merchant account that made this possible.

It is obvious to us and many others in this community that PayPal is not good to use for anyone in the adult industry. We were aware of others who had had their accounts frozen and their funds taken by PayPal for what PayPal felt was a violation for their TOS. We did not think when we set up our Paypal account we would have this problem because there is no nudity in our calendar. As a matter of fact our calendar shows less skin than the Sport Illustrated calendar does but we do not want to take the risk of having the funds in our account seized.

Calendar Release Party Tomorrow!

Thanks to the miracle work of the pervy angels over at Njoy, the calendars have made their way over land and through the sky and probably over the sea to the Njoy-plex. They will be personally delivered to us tomorrow at our secret headquarters. All but for a box of 50 that showed up on my doorstep last night.

And let me tell you, all the time and effort, stress and insanity of working on such a tight time schedule was worth it. The calendars are beautiful and I am so proud to be the producer of this project and to have had the ability to work with all the smart and sexy pin ups and our fabulous sponsors.

So come party with us and share in the fun, use some of your hard earned bucks for a good, sex-positive cause, Sex Work Awareness, enjoy some sultry, sexy burlesque performances by The Luvely Rae, Weirdee Girl, Jezebel Express and Darlinda Just Darlinda and maybe win a fabulous prize or two. It’s all happening at White Rabbit, tomorrow between 6:30 and 9:30. Remember that the first 100 people get Babeland gift bags crammed with goodies from many of our sponsors and the first 100 people to buy calendars get a FREE bottle of Sliquid Silk, a $14.95 value, making your calendar purchase practically free. We even have other goodies to pass out among the best (or naughtiest) behaved among you.

Take a look at all the press we’ve been getting and think about arriving early because we don’t want you to miss out on any of the merriment and mayhem.

Please bring cash to purchase your calendars and raffle tickets. You know you can’t resist the charms of scantily clad ladies. Don’t forget you get to touch Tess’s bountiful boobs or spank/be spanked by Rachel when you purchase a calendar. We are such a giving group of women. All for the cause, people, all for the cause.

New calendar trailer video!

Here it is, the second of two sneak peek videos of the sex blogger calendar shoot! The launch party is this Friday, November 14th from 6.30-9.30 at the White Rabbit (145 East Houston, NYC).

At the party you can meet all your favorite sex bloggers, buy a calendar ($20, all proceeds support Sex Work Awareness), and enter to win one of the many glorious raffle prizes.

The first 100 people in the door get goodie bags and the first 100 people to buy a calendar will get a free bottle of Sliquid Silk!

Calendar Party Countdown

Our party is less than two weeks away and we hope to see many of you there. Get there early, we expect a crowd and only have 100 gift bags and we know you are going to want yours.

Due to popular demand, with your calendar purchase you can choose between tickets to Spank (or be spanked by) Rachel or to Touch Tess’ Tits. We’re givers.

The raffle prizes keep growing thanks to so many wonderful supporters who believe in this project and believe that being sex-positive extends beyond the walls of their own bedrooms. So check out the list on the About The Raffle page and see what you might win. Raffle tickets are $2 for 1, $5 for 3 and $10 for 10. Cash only. Bring the green!

And since our calendar was shot at the fabulous NYC burlesque venue, The Slipper Room, what could be better than to bring a bit of va-va-va-voom directly to you. Performing at the party are Jezebel Express, Weirdee Girl, The Luvley Rae and Darlinda Just Darlinda. We’re hoping to lure one of our own pin ups into performing the burlesque act she’s been working on. Have any ideas who that would be? You’ll just have to wait and see! And it will be so worth it.

And since so many of you are giving in so many ways, we’d like to ask for some volunteers to hand out gift bags, sell raffle tickets (scantily clad only need apply), refill our drinks (oops, how’d that get in there?) and generally make sure that chaos is somewhat contained. If you’d like to help out, email me (urbangypsyt@gmail.com) or my able bodied assistant with the growing boobs, I mean, seriously, have you seen Diva’s recent HNT’s, (debaucheddomesticdiva@gmail.com). If anyone wants to try their hand at DJ’ing and has an iPod full of super sexy music, bring it on. Again, just email either of us.

We really want all of you out there to be at the party, but if you happen to be out of town, across the country, across the ocean or otherwise unable to attend, you can go to the Purchase A Calendar page and order yours now. They will ship out after the party!

See you all soon…

Behind the Scenes Video!

I bet you were wondering what it was like to be on set with twelve sex bloggers and their suitcases full of outfits, weren’t you? Well, thankfully Audacia Ray brought her video camera. This behind the scenes video has almost eight minutes of footage, showing you what went into the prep for the 2009 Sex Bloggers Calendar. And if this isn’t enough, there’s one more video coming up – the second one will be released the week before the NYC launch party.

PARTY – SAVE THIS DATE

NYC Sex Blogger 2009 Limited Edition Calendar Release

12 of New York City’s Top Bloggers Come Together For Fundraiser

Join us for the launch party and buy a copy of the NYC Sex Blogger 2009 Limited Edition Calendar on Friday, November 14, 2008 from 6:30 pm – 9:30pm at The White Rabbit. The White Rabbit is located at 145 E. Houston Street, between Forsyth and Eldridge, in NYC. Meet the bloggers who made it happen, and ask really nicely and you might even get your calendar signed. While admission to our party is FREE and open to the public, there will be a cash bar (with Happy Hour prices till 9PM), raffle tickets and calendars to purchase so please come prepared with some green to show your support and join in the fun.

Twelve of New York City’s most dynamic literary and sex positive women, along with photographer Stacie Joy, and the sex blogging CommUNITY have collaborated to create the New York City SexBlogger 2009 Limited Edition calendar in order to support Sex Work Awareness. Sex Work Awareness is an organization that trains sex workers in media skills and educates the public about issues that affect people who work in the sex industry. 12 of NYC’s finest writers, sex educators, film makers, and ordinary women are determined to see the stigma associated with sex work and workers removed.

Included in the calendar are Audacia Ray, Desiree, Diva, Elizabeth Wood, Jamye Waxman, Lux Alptraum, Mariella Ella, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Riese, Sinclair Sexsmith, Tess Danesi, and Twanna A. Hines. See About the Pin Ups for a full biography of each calendar model.

The first 100 guests to arrive will receive a FREE gift bag from Babeland! Aside from amazing burlesque performers and organic orgasm-worthy cookies from FreeFoodsNYC, you can purchase your very own copy of the calendar. In addition, to supplement our fundraising efforts we will have a raffle, and we encourage you to buy a raffle tickets. $2 for 1, $5 for 3 and $10 for 10 will give you a chance to win prizes detailed on our About the Raffle page.

If you are unable to attend the launch party, you can still buy your limited edition copy of the calendar directly through the Sex Blogger Calendar by clicking here.

About Sex Work Awareness

Want to learn more about the cause you’ve been so generously supporting? Of course you do and in order to facilitate that we’ve added a brand spanking new page that tells you all about SWA and what the funds this project raises will go toward achieving.

Here’s a video (let’s make that a link to a video since I am hopeless at this damn WordPress and fail to see why everyone raves about it, grrrr) for those of you who prefer watching to reading.

Click to read the About Sex Work Awareness page .

OhMiBod Raffle – One a Day for Five Days

Want to have your world rocked like Zoli’s in this OhMiBod ad for their Naughtibod? Well, we can make that happen for five of you.

Each day from now till 10PM Saturday we’ll randomly choose one winner from our calendar orders. So this is a really good week to pre-order your calendars. I have seen the proof and the calendar is not only beautiful but a testament to what a commUNITY effort can accomplish. Without all of you who helped us by linking to our blog, putting up our buttons, donating products, buying days and sending much needed funds, it would not have been possible.

Now I’d like to thank Suki & Brian of OhMiBod for giving all of you the opportunity to feel the music.

Order your calendar here and now to win either an OhMiBod or a Naughtibod. Hell, order one a day for five days and who knows, you may be finished with your holiday shopping before you even start!

NYC Sex Blogger Calendar gets International Attention

Yes, that’s correct folks, we have garnered some overseas attention from the German site, Lust & Mehr. That would be Lust and More to us English speaking types.

You can go to the post, Bloggerinnen make Sexblogger Calendars and read it in German or have more fun with the translation I got through Yahoo’s Babel Fish:

Nothing is than the looking business – and correctly dumb to work, as it is sometimes demanded in the Bourlesque, is still more difficult – as one in the video to see more difficult can.

The film show I you today for a certain reason. There will be white a calendar the New York Sex blogger to give – among other things with as well-known names as Audacia Ray (Waking Vixen) and Rachel Kramer Bussel (Lusty lady) – like erotic, naked or otherwise as publicly accessible made a blueprint it, I not yet – Audacia knows itself however at least well out, how the business with the desire functions.

Now it is missing actually only to put together itself that all CW-Bloggerinnen, in order to arrange a calendar (on-line one hands completely, friends) – perhaps: “My dearest Christmas present and I” – and for shrinking from among you I would have there also still another solution: Bloggerinnen naked under the winter coat. Now, I know, I white, one cannot have everything – above all no good Bloggerinnen as Bourlesquetänzerinnen.

Not sure if this is a good or bad thing. But it sure makes for fun reading.

If you’ve got some real German to fall back on and want to provide us with a less comical translation, please feel free to use the comments or to email.

In the meantime, I think we’ll just say thanks to Lust & Mehr in the hope that they’re trumpeting our cause or at the very least aren’t making too much fun of us!

We have goodies and we want to give them to you

We have a lot of fabulous sponsors and you can (and should) check them each out in the sidebar and on our sponsors and friends page.

This week, courtesy of Candida Royalle and Natural Contours, we have the PETITE PINK RIBBON to give away. All you have to do to win it is buy a calendar this week and thanks to the magic of random numbers generated by atmospheric noise (I just love that concept even if I have no clue what the hell it means) you could win this pretty-in-pink ergonomically curved vibe.

Here at NYC Sex Blogger Calendar we are grateful to have sponsors that also want to give back to their community and Natural Contours ® is donating 10% of the sales proceeds from the PETITE PINK RIBBON™ to Breast Cancer Action (BCAction.org). So if you don’t win it, purchasing it on your own is a way to make a contribution towards this dreadful disease that afflicts so many.

I recently twittered about losing one of my oldest friends. Janet had breast cancer in her 20’s. She managed to fight long and hard and with an unfailingly cheerful upbeat attitude that made me admire her even more. Finally, after nearly thirty years of on and off again remissions, cancer attacked her brain. So today when I return from Florida, it will be to my dear friend’s memorial service. I will miss you, Janet. When I think of you, it will be your will to survive, the way you always smiled through the pain and refused to concede that comes to mind. And all our silly teenage adventures.