Welcome to our weekly wrap up of recently written sex toy reviews by our blogger friends. This is a great spot to read up on all of the items you’ve been thinking about getting, but just wanted to know someone else’s opinion first. But remember, everyone is different. Just because a reviewer loved or hated a sex toy doesn’t mean you will feel the same way. Always keep in mind what you enjoy personally when reading reviews.
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Leave the tie buying to the kids and get the sexy dad in your life a present that will rev his engine this Father’s Day. With all the work he’s put in he deserves a gift that will remind him that even though he changes diapers and helps out on homework he’s still the same sexy man he was before he became a dad.
For the father you’re married to or dating we recommend the WeVibe III. This best selling couple’s toy will bring spice to your sex life in a way that no other vibrating toy can. Designed to hug the g-spot and clitoris during intercourse, this popular vibrator has 6 functions of vibration and pulsation that are 40% stronger than the previous WeVibe II. Men love vibration just as much as women do and you’ll both have a blast with this toy.
For your best guy friend dad who doesn’t want more kids right now we recommend condoms. A lot of guys get whatever basic condoms they can find at the grocery/drug store, but there are a lot of options out there that can be more fun for both your dad friend and his partner. We think condoms can be a great gift any time of year … just make sure to give them discreetly.
For the man you call daddy, but isn’t your father we recommend the Beginner Bondage Kit to explore all of your BDSM fantasies together. We know you’ve been curious since you read 50 Shades of Grey. The only question left is: who gets to be tied up first?
Getting your dad a sexy Father’s Day gift could be a bit awkward which is why we recommend the Ultimate Romance Kit. It’s a nice innocent way of telling your dad that you want him to have a fulfilling romantic sex life without the creepy factor. This of course only works if your dad is still with your mom or has paired off with someone else. It comes complete with everything he’d need to woo his partner into a romantic evening for two.
If you’re a father why should you wait and hope that someone else gives you the perfect sexy Father’s Day present? Get one for yourself! We recommend the Tenga Flip Air because it is the sleekest, most technologically advanced men’s sex toy we’ve ever seen. I mean it conforms to the shape of your penis for gosh sake! This is the kind of toy that gives ladies penis envy. If you’re a gadget guy you can’t pass this one up.
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Psst … wanna see a 37,000 year old vulva?
The whole world did, and recently, when some interesting home decor was found at Abri Castanet in France at the site of a 37,000 year old rock shelter – a carving that appears to represent a vulva, reports Stephanie Pappas of LiveScience.
The artists who put the vulva on the now-collapsed shelter ceiling would have been the Aurignicians, the first humans in Europe who arrived from Africa, hunter-gatherers who also made wearable art: jewelry made from ivory, shells and pierced animal teeth. Archeological expeditions at the site have been going since 1911, but less advanced techniques made them unable to determine the age or origins of carvings that had been previously found. Pappas writes that “The researchers weren’t sure there was much left at the Abri Castanet site after 100 years of excavation, but the underside of the rock ceiling met their wildest expectations.”
Randall White, a study researcher and an anthropologist at New York University told LiveScience that homo sapiens left evidence of art as long as 40,000 years ago though they’ve been around for 200,000 years. In fairness, it takes awhile to get settled into a place before you really start getting a feel for decorating.
And thinking of it that way, as “quotidian art, it’s every day art,” as Randall describes it – the things they looked at all the time, like you look at whatever you have on your walls makes it really intriguing. It’s also important White says, to see it as an invention, since what the Aurignicians, were doing was “groundbreaking”. Whether they are really vulvas is debated about anthropologists – but isn’t the meaning of art always a subject for debate?. Depictions of the vulva may have represented a a “preoccupation with fertility and the mystery of birth”, according to White.
It also makes us think how crazy it seems for modern humans to worry about depictions of nudity in our culture when clearly our own human sexuality has been fascinating to us ever since art was invented.
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Before I say tell you this story I have to say a heartfelt thank-you to artist/inventor/ tech visionary Matthew Epler. I was having a rough week…one of those weeks that makes you wonder if fate is trying to give you a hint that every decision you’ve ever made since you were 14 is wrong and you should start over. Then along came Grand Old Party, a “data visualization project” that is also a line of anal sex toys, commonly referred to as butt plugs. Never ever did I think I’d say this, but GOP – you made my day.
A data visualization project is, from what I gather on Mr. Epler’s website, the visual depiction of statistics, in this case, with a 3D model of the popularity of GOP presidential candidates over a set period of time, in this case, fashioned as a butt plug. From the website:
“Each shape is determined by voter approval ratings amongst registered republican voters for each of the GOP presidential candidates. The height is a measurement of time, beginning December 10, 2011 and ending on Aptil 1, 2012 (bottom to top). The width of each object is the quantity by percentage (out of 100%) of approval for that candidate. All data comes directly from Gallup polls.”
So what you end up with is a Michelle Bachman’s approval ratings looking remarkably like a small standard butt plug, Rick Perry’s looking a little more, um, shapely due to a cinched in moment near the top, Ron Paul’s stats looking far more imposing than you’d have thought and Rick Santorum’s being so tiny in the beginning and so bulbous and top-heavy towards the end it can’t stand up on it’s own. You must – you must – go to the website (link above) and see the video, which shows each item and how it was made, for yourself.
And Perry and Bachman are going for a mere $45 a piece, though depending on who you are one must wonder what the words “Perry” and “Bachman” might do to your, um, desire. The other candidates data visualizations go for $65 and it’s $350 for the set.
Mr. Epler also does projects that don’t involve sex toys. “Movement #24,” for example is a graceful 3D depiction of a series of a dancer’s movements meant to be hung in the space in which the dance was performed so that though the dance is over the multi-dimensional image of the dance is captured forever. There’s also “Earth Printer,” a work-in-progress that uses seeds to draw a picture “to create computer generated drawings that grow out of soil.” You can see more projects on his site.
I’m inspired! And I’m excited! Can’t help wondering if he’ll continue his 3D sex toy coverage of the presidential race now that it’s down to the final two. Not to tip my hand about who I favor or anything, but my hopes are that if there’s a data visualization of President Obama’s popularity in November I hope it is of terrifyingly large proportions.
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Ever look at studies, surveys, polls, marvel at the results and think “Well, they sure didn’t ask me”?
I think it all the time and until recently when a survey was released that pin-pointedly, exactly, almost alarmingly targeted precisely my demographic: straight premenopausal women on hormonal birth control. If they had kicked in “with bad eyesight and a Mac preference” I’d have felt stalked.
The survey had to do with where our eyes go when we watch adult entertainment and the answer seems to be a simple: “away.” Slate reports that researchers from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands did PET scans on a dozen women in the subcategory above while they were looking at “female friendly” pornography and found that while blood typically goes to the primary visual cortex while watching videos far less blood went there while watching the most explicit adult material (a video of tropical fish was used as a control).
It doesn’t mean that watching porn makes premenopausal, etcetera women go blind; what it might mean is that, much in the same way you sometimes fail to notice objects you’ve seen a thousand times before, you just don’t really put that much effort into seeing it. Slate says it might be that the brain “recognizes the erotic trajectory” of what’s onscreen – in other words this plot going where it always goes – so why waste time paying attention?
Actually when you think about it, it’s pretty ironic that such a taboo form of entertainment is also so formulaic that you’re visual processors go on autopilot when it’s on.
The other part of the equation seems pretty plausible too: the brain, having divined yet another happy ending, may be “sending that blood to other areas of the body “rather than the brain’s visual processing area.” So while seeing it may become ho-hum, it seems that feeling it never does.
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With the popularity of the 50 Shades of Grey erotic novel series SexToyDay.com thought folks might be interested in exploring their kinky side. Which is why this month they decided to help you walk on the wild side. The kit includes a Door Play Set designed to tie your partner up to any door in your house without damage or hardware, a beautiful Jeweled Flogger for some light or hard impact play, Tickle Me Wild which is half mini-crop/half feather tickler, a beautiful red brocade blindfold, wireless vibrating nipple clamps, a book of 22 Spank Me! Coupons perfect for inspiring you and your partner, and a bottle of water-based lube to keep it all slick and smooth while you play. This kit is valued at $150!
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Considering the fact that there is probably just as much if not more masturbation going on in the world at any given moment as there is partner sex it’s kind of surprising that there really aren’t nearly as many songs celebrating how much we love ourselves as there are how hung up we are on others. Maybe it’s because others play harder to get with us than we ever do, thus driving us inexorably to poetry.
That said, the songs that do exist about onanism are doozies and since May is Masturbation Month (do they make cards for that?) here are our Top Five songs of sheer self-pleasure. So make a playlist, turn the lights down and have yourself a ball (or whatever’s handy).
She-Bop by Cyndi Lauper. Definitely the most famous, incontestably the cutest, this song, containing the lyrics “I’ve been thinking of a new sensation / I’m picking up good vibrations” made it to the final coveted spot of the Parent Music Resource Center’s “Filthy Fifteen” in 1985, songs the PMRC recommended be banned.
I Touch Myself by the Divynls Well, it doesn’t get more direct than that, does it? No euphemisms for the stunning Christina Amphlett who sang “I don’t want anybody else. When I think about you I touch myself.” We love a girl who comes right to the heart of the matter.
Doing Laundry by Nerf Herder. Okay, maybe it does get more direct with this one from pop punks Nerf Herder singing “I was thinking of you when I jerked off into my sock last night.” It’s short and sweet – heck, nothing wrong with a quickie, Captain Solo.
Dancing with Myself by Billy Idol. The best part about this notoriously masturbatory song is that he’s using his own reflection for inspiration. It’s a very different take on the whole “Man in the Mirror” concept than the one Michael Jackson had, huh?
My Ding-a-ling by Chuck Berry. As many times as we’ve heard this song it was the jaunty hook imprinted forever on our pop culture memories and not really the lyrics that include “When I was a little boy in Grammar school / Always went by the very best rule . But every time the bell would ring / You’d catch me playing with my ding-a-ling.”
Just goes to show that when it comes to this sort of stuff an oldie can still be a very very goodie.
Are there any songs that make you want to touch yourself?
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