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The French are supposed to be all enlightened, but apparently not when it comes to sex toys: Catholic groups are trying to get a sex shop closed down on the grounds that it's selling "pornographic" materials near a school. But if if they succeed, sex shops could be banned from everywhere but "cemeteries, public gardens and railways." More »
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May is National Masturbation Month! Perhaps you'd like to celebrate by purchasing a new vibrator or dildo? Whether it's your first time or you're looking to upgrade or try something new, we've got some helpful hints to assist you in shopping for a sex toy. We asked Lux from our sexy sister site Fleshbot as well as writer, speaker, educator and activist Dr. Carol Queen, of Good Vibrations, to share their expert advice. More »
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A sex tape featuring Usher and his ex-wife, Tameka Foster, is being shopped around, and rumor has it the activities are slightly kinky. TMZ reports: "We'll keep this PG-13 and just say ... the people in the video are both givers." Sounds like mutual oral sex to us, but rumor-mongering blogs have decided that Usher and his wife are into pegging. More »
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We all chuckled about Carolee Bildsten attacking a cop with a sex toy, but there's an unfunny explanation. Bildsten, who's in AA now, says she'd heard a local cop was sexually assaulting women and grabbed the first "weapon" she saw. More »
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Carolee Bildsten allegedly ate at a restaurant without paying. When a cop visited her apartment, she reached inside a drawer as if she were getting cash but pulled out a "clear rigid feminine pleasure device" and threatened him. Note T-shirt. More »
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Recently, I received an e-mail of, ahem, a personal nature. A friend and her boyfriend were planning on having anal sex for the first time, and she needed some down-and-dirty lady advice. More »
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A penis-shaped object has been found in Sweden that some archeologists believe might been a Stone Age dildo. However, there is a chance it's an oddly-formed carving tool. Measuring just 4 inches, we sort of hope it's the latter. More »
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An anonymous bidder paid $5,400 at auction for a rare set of 200-year-old wooden dildos, which came with a fitted leather carrying case. "You might laugh but it's a good opportunity for investment," said auctioneer Wendy -waitforit- Wood. [BelfastTelegraph] More »
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We're tempted to say we're annoyed by this Onion 'article' but thing is, we don't really get the joke. [Onion] More »
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Amanda Hess at The Sexist has compiled a hilarious list of recent sex toy patent applications; sadly, the list lacks a little something. Namely: the names of female inventors. More »
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This product is called the "Banana Bunker" and it's being marketed towards parents as a case to hold their kids' bananas in their lunch boxes or diaper bags or whatever. It's weird for two reasons: 1.) bananas already come in a case and 2.) it looks…sexual. Maybe someone's mind is in the gutter here, but doesn't it look more like a product to turn your banana into a dildo? [Babble] More »
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I definitely have more of a "type" when it comes to sex toys than I do when it comes to men. Maybe that's because there's just this one specific need that a sex toy needs to live up to, so I tend to be unyielding in my bias toward certain kinds of toys. For instance, I've always been into clit stimulation, meaning that I don't even bother to fuck with dildos that don't also vibe. Actually, I usually stay away from penetration during a normal masturbation sesh, which means that I almost never fuck with dildos at all. But in my never-ending quest to find at least one toy that could match the utter awesomeness of the Hitachi Magic Wand, I decided to open myself up, so to speak, to a dildo (a vibrating one). After the jump, the Mary Mermaid takes a dive into my vagina. More »
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In this very special 420 episode of Pot Psychology, Rich and I are joined by a magical guest: Jambi the genie! (A virtuoso portrayal by StreetCarnage.com's Gavin McInnes.) He gave us aid(s) in tackling life's everyday issues, including dildo chew toys for dogs, Mormon weddings and large black cocks. Got a burning question? Send it to tips@jezebel.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)
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Evangelical minister Adam Hamilton has written a book called Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White in which he argues that abortion should be available, legal and rare. In an interview with Newsweek, Hamilton says his job as a minister is "to support people no matter what decision they make." And Hamilton is not alone in his beliefs, even though popular notions of evangelicals would have you believe otherwise. (According to Newsweek, "about a third of white evangelicals say that abortion should sometimes or always be legal.") More »
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There's a company called Rent-a-Dildo, which is kinda like Netflix for sex toys, in which people pay a monthly subscription fee, choose what they want sent to them — the product list has a range of anal beads, cock rings, vibes, nipple clamps and "dildos in every shape, size, color, and material" — use the toys and then send mail them back. Major ew! Rent-a-Dildo says all its toys are safe, as it has a "patent-pending process for thoroughly cleaning each toy. As these ladies say, it has to be a joke. Right? [Rent-a-Dildo via Feminist Law Professors] More »
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So, by now most of you have heard the news that on Tuesday, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging Alabama's ban on the sale of vibrators or "any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for anything of pecuniary value." Today, Slate brings up an interesting point about the wording of the law — which makes exception for sex toy sales concerning a "bona fide medical, scientific, educational, legislative, judicial, or law enforcement purpose" — reminding us that "vibrators were invented as medical equipment for treating female hysteria and other pelvic disorders." But vibrators and dildos are still medically beneficial to both women and men, for a variety of reasons: More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=307524&view=rss&microfeed=true Something about my wide-eyed, fair-skinned appearance and hushed voice and demure demeanor has convinced everyone I know that I know nothing about doing the nasty. (I have been called the "Sandra Dee of Gawker Media" and Anna herself will not accept I am not a virgin.) So last night, I hit up the party marking the 5th Anniversary of NYC's Museum of Sex to learn a little bit more about getting off and getting off good. In addition to photographer Nikola Tamindzic, Jezebel's own resident Slut Machine and Fleshbot's dashing Dashiell came along for good measure, and I learned more than I ever thought I could know about things that have nothing to do with where babies come from. From S&M to foot fetishes to dildos in mail boxes, my and others' sexual education — a story in pictures — below. More »
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