KamaSutronics

When women brandished vibrators and burned their bras as a part of the women’s rights movement during the 1960s, they were on a mission to discover their sexuality. Determined to no longer be solely vessels for men’s pleasure, they first dismantled the old stereotypes of what gave women erotic pleasure. Then, they bagn discovering and naming for themselves their own unique pleasures. In doing so, women moved toward becoming men’s true sexual equals rather than their sexual marionettes.

Having orgasms was first on the agenda. Anecdotally, approximately 60 percent of women were not experiencing orgasms. The absence of this basic human sexual response and pleasure in a majority of women needed serious attention. Women began masturbating and talking openly about doing so, and vibrators became common bedside accoutrements.

–from Female Ejaculation and the G-Spot, by Deborah Sundahl

The sexual revolution arrived with a bang. Its anthem came with moaning, shrieking, and shouting; this was the symphony of self-discovery. Women who discovered their pleasure centers weren’t just masturbating; they were making the world a better place for women.

The female orgasm was feminism in action. It forced a re-evaluation. Women’s sexual bodies, their sexual identities, had been unexplored. Women discovered the importance of sexual fantasies, and they began demanding their own satisfaction. In this struggle for women’s sexuality, the Hitachi was the banner.

Betty Dodson, author and sex activist, traveled the country teaching women to have orgasms. She encouraged the use of a powerful massager called the Hitachi, as well as an insertable steel rod called the Dodson barbell.

What has happened in the thirty-five years since Dodson gave women the tools to find pleasure and rapture? What has happened to the revolutionary energy of the vibrator?

Thirty-five years later, the Hitachi retains its status as one of the best. The march of progress has been slow. Manufacturers put little energy into discovering new technologies, or exploring the structures of female sexual arousal. If you want to sell something to women, you’d better make it pink. The sex toy industry sells women the same old technology, only weaker, and repackaged in pink or in purple, in the shapes of dolphins, flowers, and butterflies.

It’s disheartening to see the liberating energy of feminist sexuality overtaken by dull consumerism. This blog is aiming to take it back.

I’m going to sift through the mass-produced sex toys, on a quest for devices that were made by people who care. Did the inventor really take the time to understand a woman’s pleasure? Or did the inventor decide to cash in on cheap motors and chips from China?

I’m also going to hunt down the erotic underground: the inventors, the geniuses, who have continued to pursue advances in sexual technology, who have worked to understand female pleasure and female orgasm, and, like true artists, have gone to the workshop to create something extraordinary. The things they invent might not even be vibrators.

There are other approaches out there, and this blog is going to explore them. There are sex machines, erotic electricity, suction devices, light and sound, heat and cold, compression, and so much more. This isn’t sex toys 101; this is postgraduate level. If you want to have incredible experiences at home, or if you’re looking to go to a club with some out-of-this-world gear, this blog is where to look.