Latex doesn’t agree with my delicate flesh, so I thrilled when the non-latex Durex Avanti condoms came out way back when. They’re made of polyurethane and while they have a bit of a Ziploc-baggie feeling — even when they have to stretch extra extra tight around the person wearing them (ahem). But they don’t irritate [...]

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Franklin Veaux, inspired by XKCD’s Map of Internet Communities, created a Map of Human Sexuality last year. Then with input from his friends, lovers, the Sex Drive forum, and some people who are all three, he finalized it as much as anything online can be “final.”
The interactive version lets you put green pins in all [...]

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As many predicted, the adult trade show is noticeably smaller this year than it’s been in the past. And yet I still managed to go all day without seeing everyone I want to see.
I did a fast cruise through both the public area and the business-to-business area, looking for new or interesting sex-tech. There’s not [...]

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I keep getting press releases that assure me that while all other retail is slumping, sex sales are doing just fine. The number and somewhat forcedly gleeful tone of these makes me suspicious — but I also am a firm believer in positive thinking. If retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers and producers of sex stuff want to [...]

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Last month I prepared my L.A. house to rent out and moved to northern California in 17 days. (The other 10ish were spent out of town working full time onsite hours for day job clients.) Suffice it to say, I’m crawling back to blogging somewhat battered and bruised, but landed in the new place with [...]

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In a tip almost worth of Sexier Sex, entertainer Aubrey O’Day

gives women a sex-tech tip for safe steamy sex: watch your homemade sex video — and then watch your man delete it.
O’Day Insists Boyfriends Delete Sex Tape Footage
The singer admits she gets turned on by filming her steamy sex sessions and then watching them [...]

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The Calgary Herald has a nice introductory piece about consumer-grade teledildonics:
Sending good vibrations over the Internet
Cyber sex isn’t just the late-night pastime of techno-tarts, sex addicts and pedophiles.
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“That mental and emotional connection you make during cybersex, even when you’re just typing words or sending emoticons or photos, makes the body respond. Now there’s a physical [...]

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It seems like someone picked up the calendar by February and tilted it so that all sex-tech events fell into September: this Saturday in particular. I can’t get up to San Francisco for Arse Elektronika after all, for a variety of personal reasons (and I’m very sorry about that, I hate to miss you), but [...]

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Yeah, yeah, whatever, there’s a sex machine in Dacia’s new short film, but LOOK AT THAT WALL OF BOOKS! *droooool*

Dacia’s Love Machine chronicles Audacia Ray’s efforts to sell a sex machine — namely, The Love Machine — on Craigslist. The 25-minute film costs $2.99 to download and is DRM-free.

What better way to celebrate the advent [...]

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CNN says that Philips is launching a sex toy in the UK and muses about whether other big electronics companies will follow.

You mean like Hitachi?

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I’ve resisted Facebook since it launched, despite personal and professional (including day job, gasp) reasons to sign up. But I think I have to, now, ’cause LoveHoney introduced the “world’s first personalised Facebook sex toy!” about an hour ago. Richard Longhurst, the gentleman who keeps me apprised of LoveHoney’s doings, says:

The Love Bunnies [Facebook] app [...]

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I’m nostalgic for Sex Drive Daily today.
The Explorers Blog announces that Canadian sex ed site Sexuality and U is now using Browsealoud, software that reads the site content aloud for you. You can also record the audio to MP3 for later listening — sort of like TiVo for your sex ed.
Young women outnumber young men [...]

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Here’s my official content from the Adult Novelty Expo this week, a short photo essay of some of the cool sex machines on display. I’m hoping to add some personal commentary about the show, novelties, people and what not – with photos — but my goodness life is crammed right now.

Coming Soon: Your Own [...]

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qDot pinged me last night to let me know that the Rubbot is entering beta and seeking testers.
Rubbot.com is a unique project to design a revolutionary new automated adult sextoy for men. We’re convinced that a male sex toy must be: compact, hands-free, cool-looking and . . . let’s just say, “effective”.
Here’s the video [...]

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Our Sex in the News segment started off on a surprising note today, as I learned that Jenny Block was coming in later to talk about her new book Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage and Tiffany asked me about polyamory, swinging, and what do we tell the children.
Yikes!
But moving on to [...]

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