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About Me
“Part mad scientist, part gonzo journalist”
Welcome to the home of Franklin VeauxI I am a writer, computer consultant, polyamory and BDSM activist, sex educator, and sometimes amateur photographer. Over the years, I've built a more or less inadvertent Web empire, and this is the page that brings all my various Web sites together.
I write on a number of topics, including polyamory, BDSM, transhumanism, personal philosophy, science, skepticism, Macintosh troubleshooting, and computer security. I speak at conferences and events about polyamory, ethics, and human sexuality.
I own Tacit Assumptions, the parent company of Symtoys, the home of my sex game Onyx and the popular posters of the Map of Human Sexuality, as well as free tutorials on bondage and sex.
I co-own Tacit Pleasures, a tech startup exploring ways to use direct neurostimulation to help trans* people have the physical experience of being in a body that matches their gender identity.
I write for a living. I am co-author of immechanica (under a pen name), a near-future post-cyberpunk novel set in 2054; and the far-future, post-scarcity erotic science fiction novels The Brazen Altar (banned from Amazon for erotic content!), Divine Burdens, The Hallowed Covenant, and Ecstatic Communion.
I have several more novels coming out this year, including the re-release of my alternate-history steampunk dark humor novel Black Iron, the sexy contemporary urban fantasy London Under Veil, and the next Passionate Pantheon novel, Unyielding Devotion.
I also write erotica under a pseudonym. My novel Nineteen Weeks, is a sort of inverted romance that turns many of the tropes of conventional romance novels on their heads, and features lots of fun kinky sex.
From the Blog
Recent Noodlings- My dear fellow liberals: PLEASE stop being know-nothing dumbasses
A short while ago, CNN published an explosive story about a group of men coordinating with each other on Telegram and porn sites in what CNN calls an “online rape academy,” exchanging tips and techniques to drug their wves and then rape them or …
- When Fantasy Sex is Not Just Sex
Eunice and I have written four novels and one collection of short stories in a far-future, post-scarcity world that emerged from a fantasy she had, a woman atop a ziggurat, strapped to an altar, given forced orgasms from sunup to sundown. From …
- Stories from the Past: Beth
As I move into my sixth decade of life, I’m posting a series of stories from my past. This is part of that series. Fresh out of my rather disastrous first year of uni, during which I got caught hacking the school’s DECsystem-20 mainframe and …
- Stories from the Past: Tacit Rainbow
As I move into my sixth decade of life, I’m posting a series of stories from my past. This is part of that series. A few weeks ago, as I waled to the coffee shop where I spend a lot of my writing time, a woman coming the other way pointed to …
- Sex as Fuel for Creativity
Back in 2019, Eunice and I spent some time in New Orleans, a place I’d never visited before. We did all the normal New Orleans touristy things: explored an abandoned and partly-flooded power plant, did some urban spelunking in the ruins of an old …
What's With the Bunny Ears?
I wear bunny ears almost everywhere I go. The bunny ears you see in the photo of me above have been all over the world with me.
Naturally, that means I get a lot of questions.
The short version of the story is this: The bunny ears were a gift from my sweetie, artist Maxine Green, who also did the illustration on the left. We met at a BDSM convention and have collaborated on several projects since then. And, naturally, when a lover gives you a ring,you wear it; when a lover gives you a necklace, you wear it; and when a lover gives you bunny ears, you wear them.
