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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- It’s Almost Here!
London Under Veil, the new book by Eunice and me, is publishing next week at WorldCon Glasgow! Sadly, I won’t be there, but Eunice will, and she’ll have paperbacks and eBooks with her. (Plus you’ll be able to pick up copies of our other …
- A year ago today
Hard to believe it’s been a year. These past twelve months have been a wild ride. Bits of it have been extremely good, bits (like the death of my mother) extremely bad, but there’s been nothing average anywhere in this year. Today marks the …
- Stalking, harassment, and the North American polyamory scene
Trigger warning: Stalking, graphic death and rape threats, doxxing, threats of swatting, impersonation I’ve been putting off writing this for a while now, because it involves dredging deep into some incredibly ugly stuff. Most of you know …
- Setting Math in Adobe Illustrator: The Impossible Dream
A while back, I posted on social media: I did not suspect, Gentle Reader, just how many people would have questions about this, nor how many of them there would be. Especially over on Quora, where it raised quite an interesting discussion …
- There and Around and Back Again
I am not, it must be said, the sort of person who gets to the airport early. I am the sort of person who rolls up to the gate just as they start boarding, then says “hmm, I’m in Boarding Group 8, that means I have time to dash down the …
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.
