Bi-Costal Writers Knit Sex Conspiracy

If you’re like me, and read sex columns like they’re stock market reports, you’d be putting all your money in yarn bonds next week. In some strange fluke, or a sure sign that there is a bi-coastal sex writer conspiracy afoot, two of my favorite sex columnists, the Village Voice’s Rachel Kramer Bussel and the SF Chronicle’s Violet Blue uncovered the warm and fuzzy world of erotic knitting this week.

Bussel’s Lusty Lady column does a great job of introducing us to the multitude of erotic knitting blogs, websites, and books that have cropped up over the past couple of years. It also comes with photos guaranteed to get you rushing out to your local knit café (or at the very least to start rummaging through those old knitting patterns your mom had lying around the house).

Violet Blue focuses on San Francisco local “Domiknitrix” Jennifer Stafford, who also has a book, and more than a few sexy pictures to share.

In the end, as the knitters themselves admit, the actual content of these books and blogs tends to be more “silly than sexy”, and the purls you’ll find are more likely of the knitting and not the necklace variety, the fact is that crafts have always been sexy, and this resurgence of bold knitters is nothing if not good news for all of us as we stare down a long cold winter ahead.

Read more – Village Voice, Lusty Lady: Kinky Knitknacks

Read more – SF Chronicle, Open Source Sex : Knitting for Adults Only