KamaSutronics

The UK Fashion Export Awards had a surprising finalist: Myla, a company that sells swimwear, lingerie, and sex toys.

An adult toy store in Kansas is fighting a new state law that would require it to take its billboards down.

Watching reality TV, Newsweek’s Raina Kelley saw a bridesmaid give the bride sex toys at her bachelorette party.  She’s appalled.  Appalled, I say!

The Brooklyn Paper reports on the first anniversary of their local Babeland.

The Journal of Sexual Medicine has published the results of a large-scale study on vibrator use in men and women.

Julia Allison returned to her Alma Mater, and was shocked at the open way they discussed sex toys.

Second Lifers mourn the loss of their sex toys.

City Hall in South Portland, Maine, has proposed a new set of rules around the sale of sex toys, after some jerk complained about Spencer’s.

The Australian case against a teacher accused of having sex with an underaged student continues.  “The prosecutors also came in for some harsh words from the bench on Friday after they had tendered 15 dildos and vibrators seized by police from Tominac’s bedroom at her home without establishing any link between the items and the alleged offences.”

In Tokyo, a nyotaimori restaurant was shut down after a salmonella outbreak.  Nyotaimori is sushi served on the skin of naked women.  Apparently customers had been bringing their own vibrators, stimulating the women with them, and dipping the sushi into the wet.

“British commercials for condoms and vibrators are the best in the world.”

A man in South Africa is on trial for raping his girlfriend, who sells sex toys.  She claims he raped her repeatedly one night, took photos, and sent the nude pics to his friends.  The defense argues that it was consensual; after all, “she is an agent for sex apparatus, handcuffs and vibrators.”  Well then, hu must be innocent!

Tokyo sex shops, hit hard by the economic times, have apparently begun recycling condoms.

Lynn Crosbie writes, “I have long assumed that teen female mania about Tiger Beat-ish boys is the result of complicated relationships with masturbation: If sex-ed classes brought out and patiently explained shower-heads, vibrators and Frisky Fingers, teen idols would not exist.”  This from an article about the vampiric celibacy franchise, Twilight.

A new sex toy store, Romeo and Juliet’s Adult Boutique, is opening near Shakespeare’s birthplace.  Predictably, a local Vicar objected, forgetting that Shakespeare liked sex more than he liked Vicars.

An Australian science teacher is on trial for having an affair with one of her students.  But why, the judge wants to know, did prosecutors tender 15 sex toys found in her home as evidence?

Scandals plague the Cronulla Sharks, a rugby team.  Among the scandals: it’s said that team members were given sex toys.

A British study found that tech nerds make the best lovers.  Their criteria for a good lover?  One who is selfless in bed, adventurous, and likely to use sex toys.

The Rack in Las Vegas is a shop for porn and sex toys.  The owners decided to get involved in show biz, opening the Onyx Theatre around back.  And theatre critics were floored.

In South Africa’s Sun City, a woman was kicked out of a conference where she’d been invited to display vibrators for sale.

A website out of Kansas sells sex toys for charity.

The University of California at Santa Barbara put on its annual Sex Affair, highlighting sex toys and BDSM implements.

Anti-sex toy lunatic crusader Shanda Perkins is still trying to become a member of Texas’ parole board.

Yakima, Washington, has passed a new ordinance that places restrictions on the sale of sex toys.

A Malaysian “expert” warns that sex toy use has “caused relationships to end in divorce on their wedding night.”

London researchers found that women with high emotional intelligence may have more orgasms, too.

Feeling the music.

It’s called “synesthesia” when your senses blend together.  You can taste music, or feel a smell, or hear a color.  These are beautiful strange moments.  A song might glow like a bright white light with darker green edges; a lover’s touch could become a deep note held for a long time.

That’s synesthesia.

For a while now I’ve been working on a music system.  I call it the Synestheatre.  The idea is simple: I want to play music for a woman so that she hears it and sees it and feels it, all through her body.  Lie on your back, close your eyes, and let the music play you.

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An Australian woman was denied bail after stealing sex toys.

It was the first magazine that ever ran an article providing independent testing of sex toys — any guesses?

Shanda Perkins led a crusade against passion parties in Texas.  Then the Governor nominated her for the parole board.  How did that work out?  Not too well.

Playboy has decided to expand its retail line.  But not to sex toys.

Filmmaker Sid Dukie is planning to release a series of films about the private lives of figures from American history — including Ben Franklin’s love for wooden dildos.

Chef Heston Blumenthal serves a glow-in-the-dark absinthe jello made with strawberry juice and elderflower; its wiggle is powered by vibrators.

Brown Bag v. Pure Romance: when two sex toy party companies clash, they wind up in court.

When Christian groups organized to protest South Africa’s Sexpo, the Sexpo offered to give them a tour.

A Boston man is charged with stealing more than a thousand dollars’ worth of sex toys.

The Governor of Texas appointed Shanda Perkins to the state parole board this week.  Perkins is best known for her crusade against people who sell sex toys.

Panelists at South Africa’s Sexpo predicted that people are going to explore naughtier sex as economic hardship continues, including roleplay and sex toys. Meanwhile, a Christian group is organizing protests against the Sexpos.

Some prude from ENTblog visited New York’s Museum of Sex.

The Edmonton Sun reports that business is booming for the purveyors of passion parties.

Kam Williams reviews the documentary “Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm.”

Warren Ridge’s job at a porno magazine was hurting his relationship — until he started bringing home some free samples.

After Oprah Winfrey suggested that teenage girls should be taught to masturbate with vibrators, 1,300 people complained to the FCC.  Mary Lingwall responds.

Why ARE Nigerian women addicted to sex toys?

Thieves in North Carolina made off with three hundred dollars’ worth of sex toys.

Lucy Tanat Jones left her singing career behind to sell organic sex toys.

TopCo won its appeal; sex toy companies can indeed use borosilicate glass, despite the patent issues.

Professor Foxy at Feministing recommends sex toys to an abstinent virgin.

Australian pharmacies have started selling vibrators near the condoms and Viagra.  John Morrissey of the Australian Family Association said, “There’s only one use for them and that’s not a habit we want to encourage in teenage girls.”  Who knew butt plugs could talk?

At the premiere of neo-retro-Blaxploitation-slasherflick “Black Devil Doll,” filmmakers threw eighty pounds of black dildos into the audience.  At the end of the film, none were left in the theatre.