I estimate that at least half of the sex-tech entrepreneurs I’ve written about over the years are men who say they invented their product or service at the prodding of their wives and girlfriends. In many cases, the women keep their day jobs to support the household and prop up the business, and the men [...]

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Almost exactly five years ago, I wrote about a complex and interesting Bluetooth-enabled vibrator called The Toy. The one drawback of The Toy was the limited number of phones it was compatible with. But now, there’s a free Android app. I’ve downloaded it, but I have to charge my The Toy to see if it [...]

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I wrote about Sherri Williams v. Alabama in 2005 (“Do You Have an Rx for That Vibrator?“), describing the battle Sherri fought to keep her Pleasures stores open after Alabama banned sex toy retail “for immoral purposes” from the state. I wrote about the case again in 2007 when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to [...]

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It’s a little bit Rube Goldberg for both of the purposes people are talking about, but who cares. It’s a robot! (And reminding me of a Big Bang Theory episode about a robot arm…)

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I saw this morning that the Avatar Fleshlight is here, so far sneaked past any James Cameron-related lawsuits by being a companion to the porn parody This Ain’t Avatar XXX.
Gizmodo: The Avatar Fleshlight Actually Happened
I know: you watched our Fleshlight review and thought hey, that’s great, just maybe not Avatar enough. Like, if only it [...]

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Researchers have found the world’s oldest known leather shoe in Armenia. It is about 5,500 years old.

Yet the world’s oldest known dildo is approximately 20 to 30 thousand years old and discovered in German or Sweden.
I suppose it just means that stone and wood preserve better than leather. But I’d like to think that [...]

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