Sex toy of the week

The ultimate cyber combo comes complete with a 7 inch, multi-speed, silver vibe and penis replica vibe sleeve. The sleeve is made of amazing CyberSkin that makes it feel like a real penis! Also includes bonus free Climax lubricant and CyberSkin Renew. Buy it at Blissable.com



And it's endorsed by Greenpeace too!!

Independently conducted research by Greenpeace confirms what Topco Sales and other adult companies always asserted, CyberSkin does not contain phthalates.

Phthalates have come under scrutiny lately as studies claim large doses may be harmful to rodents, and therefore possibly harmful to humans. Greenpeace Netherlands on Sept 6th, 2006 released a report that was conducted by TNO research lab, which tested eight different sex toys for concentrations of phthalates. One of the sex toys was a very popular CyberSkin product manufactured by Topco Sales. Out of the eight toys tested for phthalates, Topco Sales' CyberSkin product was the only one that did not contain phthalates. Greenpeace's research therefore confirms that there are no phthalates in CyberSkin.
Despite the Greenpeace report, and Topco's long-standing position that CyberSkin does not and never has contained phthalates, the novelty powerhouse contends that misinformation continues to be purported by magazines and websites like XBiz.com, Internet blogs, in newsletters, and by misinformed salespeople.
Desiree Duffie, director of marketing and public relations for Topco, confirms: "Though there are adult products that contain phthalates, CyberSkin products are not among them. At Topco Sales, we've said all along that CyberSkin is phthalate free; however, despite that, and even despite the recent Greenpeace report, there are still news groups and misinformed individuals incorrectly stating that CyberSkin products contain phthalates.

"Part of this misinformation stems from the incredible popularity of CyberSkin," Duffie continues. "As a result of that popularity, many similar materials have been mimicked within the adult novelty industry. Unknowing consumers, retailers, and press often refer to any soft, stretchy or 'jelly-like' material as CyberSkin. Even though other products may be similar to CyberSkin, Topco Sales is the original, and the original does not contain phthalates."

Sex Educator Training

We don't let teens drive cars without driver's ed, but somehow we think that ignorance is the best approach when it comes to sex ed. Silly huh?

The San Francisco Sex Information Hotline is a great way to battle ignorance and help people lead safe, healthy, sexy lives. They provide a free information and referral switchboard providing anonymous, accurate, non-judgmental information about sex. If you live in the Bay area and are interested in volunteering with SFSI, here is the fall training schedule.

Fall 2006 Sex Educator Training

SFSI training covers essential topics in human sexuality, including:

sex, science, and the history of sex research
sex, gender, and orientation
anatomy
sexual function and dysfunction
pregnancy/birth control/fertility
HIV,STDs, and harm reduction
BDSM, fetishes, and variations
relationship styles and skills
Communication and education skills covered include:

Listening effectively
Presenting information clearly, comprehensibly, and appropriately
Recognizing and suspending judgments.

Now accepting applications for the Fall 2006 training.
Interviews will be held Tuesday, September 26th (evening) and Saturday, September 30th (afternoon). Please fill out an application if you are interested in attending an interview/orientation session.

Training classes will be held from 9:45 am - 6:00 pm on the following dates:

Saturday, October 7
Sunday, October 8
Saturday, October 28
Sunday, October 29
Saturday, November 11
Sunday, November 12
Saturday, December 2
Sunday, December 3

More info here...

Transexual Tilapia

Now what will the religious right say about this I wonder??

JERUSALEM - Researchers in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Germany are pursuing a project to transform female freshwater fish into males, a sex change they hope will put bigger fish on the dinner table.

Male fish are larger, grow faster and weigh about a third more than females, Mutaz Qutob, a Palestinian researcher involved in the experiments, said on Tuesday.

As part of a project with Hebrew University and Germany's University of Hohenheim, Qutob and his colleagues will inject compounds from plants found in the occupied West Bank and often used as seasonings into food fed to newborn Nile Tilapia fish.

Read the whole sordid story...

Sexiest man alive!

Because he has the balls to speak truth to power and stand up to the right-wing slime machine, I nominate Keith Olbermann as sexiest man alive!

Why do guys get sleepy after sex?

Melinda Wenner at ScienceLine.org has a great post on the perennial question of why guys conk out after the Big "O". Basically it has to do with our biochemistry and we better get used to it.

For many women, the correlation between sex and snoring is one of those annoying facts of life: no matter when passionate encounters occur, men always seem to fall asleep immediately afterwards. Dave Zinczenko, the author of Men, Love and Sex: The Complete User Guide For Women, explained the phenomenon to Huffington Post writer Arianna Huffington this way: “Men go to sleep because women don’t turn into a pizza.”

I doubt I am ever going to become a pizza, and I’ll never have the foresight to order one beforehand. So in lieu of a cure, a better explanation will have to do. Although women sometimes feel sleepy after sex, the phenomenon does seem more pronounced in men. What is it, then, that spirals them into the land of nod?

Read full post

List of sex positions

The enterprising folks who contribute to Wikipedia have an exhaustive (some might say exhausting!) list of sex positions along with description and illustrations. Check it out. Since Wikipeida is built by human contibuters, maybe some of our readers can add to this list. For example, do you know what a Viennese Oyster is?

Viennese oyster – the receiving partner crosses their feet behind their head (or at least puts their feet next to their ears), while lying on their back. The penetrating partner then holds the receiving partner tightly around each instep or ankle and lies on the receiving partner full-length. A variation is to have the receiving partner cross their ankles on their stomach, knees to shoulders, and then have the penetrating partner lie on the receiving partner's crossed ankles with their full weight.

Who knew?

Sex toy of the week

Doc Johnson has been one of the premier manufacturers of sex toys for decades. They've recently been coming out with some innovative new designs for pleasure devices that both look great and really work. This week's toy is a perfect example of style meeting function for some va-va-vroom!

4.5 inch mini massager with a removable nubbed head. 3 speeds of rocket power to take you to the moon and back! Get it at Blissable.com

Society for Human Sexuality

Society for Human Sexuality was founded as a registered student organization at University of Washington in 1995. They maintain an excellent free web site with resources on all aspects of sexuality. From toys to videos to books, events and clubs, safer sex information and educational resources, it's all here. Society for Human Sexuality

Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong

Psst, did you hear the one about...


The explicit Twin Towers sex scene deleted from a 9/11 novel?
How circumcision hurts your sex life?
The world’s largest erotic archive (287,000 movies!) that no one is allowed to see?
FAA reports about people screwing on commercial flights (the “mile high club”)?
The frisky behavior of nuns and priests?
The photo of Jesus and the adulteress that Hustler wouldn’t run?
The proof that sex and orgasms make you healthy?
The amazing powers of the vagina in history and mythology?
The unexpected sexiness of blood, chess, food, pimples, and bee stings?
Nope, these aren’t dirty jokes. They’re for real, and they’re part of Disinformation’s unbridled look at the world of sex. Edited by Russ Kick, this massive anthology features a panoply of sexperts, everyone from prostitutes to professors, legends to newcomers, sexual revolutionaries to sexologists, bloggers to novelists and beyond. This unrivaled line-up provides a wildly varied, unexpected, and untamed look at everyone’s favorite activity.

Find out what it’s like to work at a Nevada brothel and a Seattle peep show, host a fist-a-thon, hustle for drug money, answer phones at a sex-information hotline, visit Japan’s sex museums, teach a senior citizen to be a stripper, and write copy for a huge catalog of porn videos and sex toys.

Read what mom and dad never told you (or knew!) about group masturbation, anal and oral sex, wild porn, gender-blending, sex magick, eye-licking, LSD, biblical erotica, genital pet-names, and the “C” word.

And there’s even more: “Girls Gone Wild,” men’s hidden desires, anti-dildo laws, Viagra, responsible non-monogamy, necrophilia, Caligula, Buddha’s sex life, breastfeeding, orgasmic chimps...

...the fun never ends in Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong.

Bedroom Adventure Gear

Inspire creativity in your bedroom and greatly expand your repertoire of sexual positions. Explore new angles on oral sex, improve your doggie-style or a try a more intense missionary position. Recommended by sexperts, porn stars and housewives alike! It's furniture for sex at www.liberator.com

Deviant Desires

DeviantDesires.com expands upon the book Deviant Desires, providing an updatable interactive gateway to the newest niche kinks and bizarre sexual turn-ons now finding their home on the World Weird Web.

"Katharine Gates is the smartest / sexiest / bestest / freshest / coolest / funniest sex researcher in the universe. Deviant Desires is brilliant, thoroughly entertaining, and super-outrageous. Finally someone has done something sexually-oriented that is truly original. I dare you to read it and not get turned on!"

--Annie Sprinkle, Queen of Kink, artist, author, sex pioneer

"Fun book! Deep down, everyone wants to be / look / behave like some other creature. Deviant Desires gives us a startling new look at a few of these variations."

--Fakir Musafar, Father of the Modern Primitive movement

Visit the site and buy the book

Women fall into 'trance' during orgasm

The first brain scans of men and women having sex and reaching orgasm have revealed striking differences in the way each experiences sexual pleasure. While male brains focus heavily on the physical stimulation involved in sexual contact, this is just one part of a much more complex picture for women, scientists in the Netherlands have found.

The key to female arousal seems rather to be deep relaxation and a lack of anxiety, with direct sensory input from the genitals playing a less critical role.

The scans show that during sexual activity, the parts of the female brain responsible for processing fear, anxiety and emotion start to relax and reduce in activity. This reaches a peak at orgasm, when the female brain’s emotion centres are effectively closed down to produce an almost trance-like state.

The male brain was harder to study during orgasm, because of its shorter duration in men, but the scans nonetheless revealed important differences. Emotion centres were deactivated, though apparently less intensely than in women, and men also appear to concentrate more on the sensations transmitted from the genitals to the brain.

This suggests that for men, the physical aspects of sex play a much more significant part in arousal than they do for women, for whom ambience, mood and relaxation are at least as important. Full Story

Inside Japan's Sex Clubs

Pink Box is the world’s first look inside Japan’s second largest industry.

While living near Tokyo, photographer Joan Sinclair heard rumors referring to Japanese men's clubs with mirrored floors and fantasy decor, but never saw any photographs of these private clubs. With nothing more than a list of contacts, she returned to Japan to shoot Pink Box.

Slowly, with great patience and persistence, she gained entrance into this private world. For most, Joan’s photographs will be the only glimpse they will ever have of some of Japan’s most elaborate sex clubs: the fake train, the fake classroom, the almost extinct no-panty lounge.

See more pictures from the book here

More pot heads like Mozart

Fans of hip hop music are likely to have had more sexual partners in the last five years while many of those who prefer classical strains will have tried cannabis, according to a study released on Thursday.

Psychologist Adrian North from the University of Leicester surveyed 2,500 Britons to find out how their musical tastes related to their lifestyles and interests.

He said the results showed said it was possible to discover clues about what people were like simply from the music they liked.

Almost 38 percent of hip hop devotees and 29 percent of dance music fans were more likely to have had more than one sexual partner in the last five years compared to just 1.5 percent of country music fans.

However they were also more likely to have broken the law, with more than 50 percent of both hip hop and dance music lovers admitting committing a criminal act.

A quarter of classical music fans have tried cannabis while 12 percent of those who liked opera had experimented with magic mushrooms.

"Surprisingly there have been very few studies on how people's age, sex, socioeconomic status and personality relate to the music they enjoy listening to," North said.

He now wants to recruit 10,000 people for a wider study on his Web site www.musicaltastetest.com.

Sex toy of the week

Smartballs are inserted into the vagina and can be worn for several hours. Every move you make causes the metal balls in the Smartballs interior to vibrate. Try them next time you go to the supermarket. Or wear them on the big rollercoaster at Magic Mountain. Imagine the possibilities!!

Buy them at Blissable.com

Conference and Exhibition Calendar

If you're just itching to see what's new and exciting in the booming adult marketplace, then check out one of these shows coming to a city near you.

Adultcon 11
Los Angeles, CA
Sept. 23–24, 2006

The Sex and So Much More Show
Detroit, MI
Sept. 29–Oct. 1, 2006

Arizona Fetish Ball
Scottsdale, AZ
Oct. 7, 2006

International Lingerie Show
Las Vegas, NV
Oct. 9–11, 2006

Venus International
Berlin, Germany
Oct. 19–22, 2006

The Everything to do With Sex Show
Toronto, Canada
Oct. 20–22, 2006

AdultCon Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
Nov. 2–3, 2006

Taboo, The Naughty But Nice Sex Show
Calgary, Canada
Nov. 10–12, 2006

The Sex and So Much More Show
Minneapolis, MN
Nov. 17–19, 2006

Taboo, The Naughty But Nice Sex Show
Edmonton, Canada
Nov. 17–19, 2006

Melbourne Sexpo
Melbourne, Australia
Nov. 23–26, 2006

What do you wear to a fetish ball?

The Arizona Fetish Ball has some suggestions...

Evening Attire & Fetish Fashion Concepts

Have no idea what to wear? Don't know what others will be wearing? Do you just need a few ideas? We are looking to have the party goers wear a different variety of bondage and fetish gear, gothic/vampire dress elements, ultra-formal, erotica or arousal-wear. Why don't we break it down for you:

Gothic Gear: Leather, corsets, velvet, lace, silk, satin, fishnet, etc. You get the idea. Just about anything that would be considered "dark" will work.

Bondage Gear: Including PVC, latex, liquid latex, rubber, metal, handcuffs, chokers, leash, bracers, straps, crops, whips, spikes, fangs, etc. Come on, we know you keep that stuff in the dresser next to your bed. We're just asking that you wear/bring it, not use it (unless you want to).

Ultra Formal: Including vintage tuxedoes, tuxedoes with tails, leather tux's or suits, military suits in leather, latex or canvas, kinky prom or wedding dresses

Erotica/Arousal: Short mini's, ultra short mini's, short shorts, high heels, garter belt and stockings, mini bikini's, see through apparel, lingerie, silk/satin boxers, anything you "can't" wear to work basically.

Read all about the upcoming Arizona Fetish Ball - October 7th, 2006

Careful where you send that nude pic!

It all began with Jason Fortuny's posting on the online community Craigslist. According to his Web journal, Fortuny took a real ad and reposted it so that responses went straight to him. Among the 178 responses were 145 photos of men "in various states of undress." The replies included e-mail addresses, names and in some cases, instant-messaging accounts and phone numbers.

Fortuny then posted all the replies on a Web site devoted to parodies and satires online. Full story here.

So think twice next time you send a picture of your pecker to some online hottie. Especially (as some of these apparently were) if you're married and don't want to end up on Divorce Court. You just might get more exposure than you bargained for!

World's sexiest city

Make your voice heard, and perhaps you could be living in the next Sexiest City in the World. These semifinal polls will stay open until 8am EST Monday September 18th.

Come on, let's vote for the world's sexiest city.

9 Unusual New Places to Meet Men

Have you found that lately all the tried-and-true methods of meeting men -- i.e., flirting at the gym, in bars, etc. -- are getting stale, not to mention fruitless? Well, those tired techniques aren't the way to find true love in 2004. If we've learned anything from the busy ladies on Sex and the City over the years, it's this: Meeting a man can happen anytime, anyplace. All it takes is the right mindset and a little strategy.

Puppy Love
A dog can be woman's best friend when it comes to meeting men. But don't take Fido for just any old walk -- bring him to the local dog park for a more social stroll. That way, while the pooch plays with his new pals, you can make a few of your own. Sex and the City featured the Madison Square Park dog run in New York City as a hotbed of single guys.
Meanwhile, many entrepreneurs are finding that our four-legged friends are natural-born matchmakers. Leashes and Lovers hosts cocktail parties for single dog owners to meet (and share photos of their pets). The company is based in New York for now, but it's soon to go national. And Singles with Pets is an online dating site with a guarantee: Your potential partner won't be allergic to your first love, your pooch.

See the other 8 at iVillage.com

Sex in the 21st C:

Recycling in the 21st C

I believe in recycling.

Recycling bottles, plastic, cans, newspapers, electronics.

But what about old boyfriends?

What happens when, out of the blue, you get a call or an email from someone you used to date and he’s interested in seeing you again?

Personally, I think that’s when recycling can be bad for our planet!

You broke up for a reason. Too young, too old, not good in bed, not good out of bed, not good to you. You went to college, he went out with someone else. Marriages, divorces, kids, pets… baggage!!

Cynical? Maybe so. But look at some of these definitions for “recycle” (from MSN Encarta®Dictionary)…

Re·cy·cle (verb)
1. to process used or waste material so that it can be used again; 2. to save or collect used or waste material for reprocessing into something useful; 3. to adapt or convert something to a new use; 4. to use something again for the same purpose; 5. to use something abstract again in the same form, often at the expense of freshness or originality; 6. to repeat a process, or pass something through a process. again

The things that you liked about him may still be appealing. On the flip side, the things that bothered you about him will probably still bother you. My suggestion: weigh both sides and try to be objective. Although you may think you know what you’re getting into, you have to ask yourself, do I really remember what I’m getting into?

A new, budding relationship may offer more potential for the future than a withered relationship from the past… no matter how comfortable the old one might seem! Familiarity isn’t always a good thing! Remember the old expression, familiarity breeds contempt? Well, who knows, maybe there's some truth to it!

A fresh face; a clean slate.

By the way, that goes for your sex toys too. Throw out that dusty, old vibrator that’s been sitting in your drawer for the last 5 years and treat yourself to a new one. You’d be amazed at how sex toys have changed.

New and improved... that’s the way to go!

Sex show debuts in Detroit

What can top thousands of people coming together for sex? Well, not much.

And that's why - with lingerie, toys, games, clothing, candy and hot entertainment - The Sex and So Much More Show will make its Detroit debut on Sept. 29 at Cobo Center.

"Sex sells," said Kari Calder, event coordinator for the upscale consumer trade show. "Everybody does it. We just wanna spice it up for people."

Calder expects about 20,000 attendees to engage in, among other things sex-related, one of many seminars featuring Dr. Trina E. Read, a sex expert, national columnist and international speaker.

"She has such a dynamic personality that there is no way we didn't want her involved," Calder said.

Read's mission: "To show people how to have fun and meaningful sex without an orgasm. She believes only with sex-positive knowledge can someone make an empowered choice and thus create a richer, more fulfilled sex life."

"She can speak to people on every level; a lot of doctors can't," Calder said.

Tera Patrick, one of FHM's 100 Sexiest Women, and porn mogul Ron Jeremy will also appear at the show.

"It really does help with people's relationships in the sense that people do get a little bit bored in their bedrooms," Calder said.

Calder believes shows in Minneapolis, Denver and Phoenix have sparked controversy because some people are threatened by sex, but if they came to the show they'd realize it's tastefully done.

"We don't have anything that would make people uncomfortable," she said.

Organizations have tried to tailor booths to suit everyone's desires, including the LGBT community, but their participation has been limited.

"We try to represent every life style. ... By keeping it open to all sexual orientations, it's non-threatening because everybody is there for the same reason," she said.

And that reason is simple: sex.

"We just feel people are becoming more open minded," Calder said. "It helps brings people together."


The Sex and So Much More Show Where: Cobo Center When: Sept. 29 - Oct. 1 Online: www.sexandsomuchmore.com

Video game teaches how to give an orgasm

He may look like an innocent cartoon bunny, but the star of a new award-winning video game by a Montreal-based designer has sultry intentions in mind.

Lapis, the blue-hued main character of a prototype video game by Heather Kelley, a designer with Ubisoft, wants to help women take a "magical pet adventure'' to their "happy place.''

The prototype teaches how to reach orgasm by simulating the affect of pleasurable sensation on the cartoon. Players tickle, touch, tap, and stroke Lapis using the touch screen of the Nintendo DS, a hand-held video game device. They can also talk, sing and blow on the bunny's fur using the device's built-in microphone.

Cool!