KamaSutronics

A weekly roundup of news items involving sex toys.  I am hoping to gain a better understanding of the role of sex toys in contemporary life, and to observe subtle trends.

At the Queer Women of Color Festival, attendees will have the opportunity to watch a short film that asks the question, What to Do After A Break-up….with the S#x T@ys.

The left-leaning political website Alternet condemns states that outlaw sex toys, in a roundup of 15 Shocking Tales of How Sex Laws Are Screwing the American People.

Morbidity and gossip meet in the discourse around the death of actor David Carradine.  Shoshana Arazy, the owner of Susie’s Delights in Tarzana, California, announced that Carradine had been a frequent shopper there, and even shared a list of his favorite shopping items.  Let’s hope the store’s other patrons are aware of their confidentiality policy.

“A girl’s got to do what a girl’s got to do,” says Blake to Olivia, after finding her shopping for sex toys.  Soap operas aren’t what they used to be.

cnet tv reports that developers can use the new iPhone 3G as a sex toy.  Users can program their own patterns in the vibration. Gizmodo wrote about this in March, exploring the ramifications.

The San Francisco Weekly blogs about locally-held patents for sex toys.