The walking dead could be heading into your orifices right now! PLEASE NOTE: This undead dong is NSFLOU (not safe for living or undead). Read… 11/27/13 1:35pm 11/27/13 1:35pm

Are you laying in front of the TV, resting your laptop on your stomach while you munch on Sabor de Soledad and mainline The Good Wife? Excellent; let me join you. No, wait, I mean: get off your ass and let's make us some vibrators! Read… 10/20/13 8:30pm 10/20/13 8:30pm

There’s a new racket in Vegas, the city where there just aren’t enough bad decision to be made. Sex toy races, whereby four battery-powered dildos crawl across a tabletop at a speed so slow that participants can feel themselves traveling backwards in time to the moment they decided they’d have a lark and put money… Read… 5/03/13 10:00am 5/03/13 10:00am

As an April Fools prank, high-class sex toy company Lelo tweeted that they'd soon be distributing an eco-friendly vibrator made of recycled wood pulp and old tires. Foolishly, the fool public believed them. Fools! And not only did the fool public believe them, they were falling over their Toms to shove Mother… Read… 4/25/13 11:10am 4/25/13 11:10am

A Spanish anarchist that sometimes goes by the super-catchy name Anticlerical Pro Sex Toys Group says it sent explosive devices hidden within boxes of vibrators to prominent ultra-conservative Catholics in Spain, because nothing screams SUSPICIOUS when you’re an abstemious cleric than receiving a shipment of sex toys. … Read… 4/21/13 3:00pm 4/21/13 3:00pm

From San Francisco, the sex and technology capital of the United States, which I can say because I live here and I am the apex of both sex and technology, comes a combo vibrator/flash drive that will both get you off and hold an entire season of Arrested Development! Technology, you're the greatest. Read… 12/20/12 9:15pm 12/20/12 9:15pm

If Brookstone was one of the many of catalogs crowding your inbox this holiday season, you might have noticed that among the pages selling electronic wine openers, heated slippers, and remote control toy helicopters, the gadget chain's infamous selection of "personal massagers" has expanded to include a large selection… Read… 12/11/12 5:10pm 12/11/12 5:10pm

Thanks to a Scanlime post from entitled "Hacking My Vagina", there are now detailed instructions on how to reverse engineer a remote control vibrator so that its remote interface can be supplanted by an "Arduino-based sonar controller" that a user can activate with any part of her body. Vibrator deconstructionist Beth… Read… 11/25/12 1:30pm 11/25/12 1:30pm

Sometimes it's easy to forget how far mainstream American culture has come since the Puritans landed on the blasted, infertile rock we now call "Massachusetts." For instance, nowadays, we can all speak frankly about...doing it without getting a case of the giggles. We are free to objectify the human body (mostly the… Read… 11/11/12 4:00pm 11/11/12 4:00pm

Vibease, a long distance massager that can be controlled by iPhone/Android, allows you to "stay intimate with your partner even when both of you are not physically together!" Which is all fine and dandy — except for the app's ridiculous promo video featuring John, a successful globetrotting executive and Jane, his… Read… 8/30/12 5:45pm 8/30/12 5:45pm

Yesterday, New Yorkers lined up to get lucky. Trojan — a company best known for condoms — was doing a giveaway; pushcarts were set up and free vibrators were being distributed. Unfortunately,
the sexy promotion drew big crowds, and the endeavor was shut down by City Hall. The good news? The punny writers at the New… Read… 8/09/12 1:00pm 8/09/12 1:00pm

A Chinese TV show is being roundly ridiculed by the savvy people of the internet because they failed to recognize that a "mystery mushroom" they reported on was actually a sex toy. Whoops! The object was discovered in the ground by some rural villagers who were digging a well, and they couldn't identify it. One of… Read… 6/20/12 9:30am 6/20/12 9:30am

This week, an armed man entered a Brazilian luxury sex toy shop, tied up the clerk, and made off with a $4,000 18K gold-plated vibrator. Tragicomically, he didn't manage to swipe the vibe's charger as well, so whoever ends up with the high end play dick will have difficulty gilding her lilly. Read… 6/01/12 5:50pm 6/01/12 5:50pm

50 Shades Of Grey, that frothy Cirque De Soleil wonderland triptych of mass-consumed erotica that the media immediately termed "Mommy porn" due to its suburban demographic, which I kind of hate—it's basically since expanded to "everyoneporn," or at least "everyone-skimmed-at-Barnes & Noble-porn"— seems to be the gift that… Read… 5/19/12 5:00pm 5/19/12 5:00pm

A former Dutch pastor named Marc Angenent has carved out a niche market selling sex toys on-demand to Christians through his subversively named website "Love Garden." This new business is very important to Angenent in his ongoing effort to combat what he calls "lust phobia" among Christian couples. And what better way to… Read… 4/22/12 5:30pm 4/22/12 5:30pm

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… Read… 2/08/12 2:35pm 2/08/12 2:35pm

When one thinks of a devout religious couple in bed together — as one so often does — giant, throbbing dildos and risqué lingerie aren't usually part of the picture. But that's about to change, thanks to a growing number of websites that have started selling religion-approved sex toys. These smart God-trepeneurs have… Read… 12/30/11 7:00pm 12/30/11 7:00pm

Two women had planned to open one of the first "sex-positive" sex shops in downtown Iowa City. But now their landlord is trying to kick them out, claiming their products are offensive. Read… 12/06/11 7:15pm 12/06/11 7:15pm

A new study shows vibrators can improve ladies' sexual function beyond just giving them more orgasms. And contrary to stereotype, most men are totally okay with that. Read… 11/01/11 5:05pm 11/01/11 5:05pm

When blogger Jill Filipovic unpacked after her most recent trip, she noticed that TSA screeners had found her vibrator. And they'd left her the above note. Read… 10/24/11 11:30am 10/24/11 11:30am

Most people don't think of kosher laws as extending to the bedroom — but the website KosherSexToys aims to make the sex-toy buying process more comfortable for Orthodox Jews. Read… 9/12/11 4:15pm 9/12/11 4:15pm

A sex shop called Maria's Passion Paradise is scheduled to open in Reston, VA's Lake Anne Plaza, and residents are pissed about it. The shopping center has until now housed only non-sexy businesses, and one Restonian says, "There are all these little kids running around in the fountain ... so I don't think that would be … Discuss… 7/21/11 2:20pm 7/21/11 2:20pm

Today in obligatory tangential Royal Wedding news: St. Andrews, where the pair met, has a collection of ancient sex toys. Read… 4/13/11 3:15pm 4/13/11 3:15pm

An anti-terrorist bomb squad responded to a call from a post office in Petrozavodsk, Russia on Monday in regards to a suspicious package with a "strange ticking." After evacuating the building and securing the premises they inspected the package. It contained a vibrator. Apparently it had been accidentally turned on. Read… 3/15/11 12:37pm 3/15/11 12:37pm