Detecting Toxic Toys
Yesterday, Bitch Media ran a piece about the lack of government regulation in the sex toy industry and how this leads to the sale of sex toys made with potentially toxic chemicals. Unfortunately, this...
View ArticleThe Future of Condoms
It’s an exciting time to be a condom user. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded eleven $100,000 grants to scientists who designed condoms that people might be more likely to want to wear....
View ArticlePolycules, Breeders & Bonobos
We’ve been loving a recent series of articles from Slate, called “A Lexicon of Alternative Sexualities.” Each defines a few terms that are fairly-to-very common in alternative sexuality communities...
View ArticleInterview with Gasm.org
Gasm.org interviewed our own Kristen Tribby (right) about our Sex is Back project! An excerpt: What does it mean sex is back? Where did it go? Sex didn’t go anywhere, but it is coming out of the...
View ArticleIs This The Year’s Worst Sex?
The winner (“winner”) of the annual Bad Sex in Fiction award has been announced! Manil Suri takes it with his novel, The City of Devi, and this description: “Surely supernovas explode that instant,...
View ArticleA Game for Annoyed Sex Geeks
Bad Sex Media Bingo is the most enjoyable way to channel your irritation at the profusion of badly-researched, sensationalized stories about sex out there. Pull it up the next time you’re reading...
View ArticleSex Doll in Space: The Incredible Journey
We get a lot of customer requests for blow-up dolls, mostly for gag gifts and bachelor/ette parties. Some folks want a doll that’s as realistic as possible. Some want one that’s as cartoonish as...
View ArticleThe Tale of Jennifer Lawrence’s Butt Plugs
In a recent interview, preternaturally likable movie star Jennifer Lawrence told Conan O’Brian what happened when a hotel maid found a stash of butt toys under her bed. (They were given to her as a...
View ArticleThe Weirdest Sex Laws in the U.S.A.
How many of us have been breaking the law without even knowing it? Woe to the Iowans whose kisses last for more than five minutes! Tremble, Texans with sizable dildo collections! Residents of Haddon...
View ArticleWhat You Shouldn’t Put Up Your Butt, 2013
If there’s no part of you that enjoys feeling visceral horror, just stop reading now. Deadspin compiled a list of things people got stuck in their various orifices over the last year, courtesy of a...
View ArticleThe Man with Two Penises
A man with a condition called Diphallia – which, yes, means that he was born with two penises – took to Reddit (using the name DoubleDickDude) for a no-holds-barred Q&A session about his unusual...
View ArticleA Crash Course in Communication
If you’re in a romantic relationship, have a sex partner (or several), or have friends, you know how vital good communication is. It’s how we get what we want! It’s how we understand what other people...
View ArticleKink in the 1950s
Catherine Robbe-Grillet, France’s most famous dominatrix, had a seriously sexy marriage. In 1958, her husband, writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet, wrote up a contract – to which Catherine...
View ArticleSexercise is Here, and it’s Hilarious
Okay, so the premise of trainer (to the stars) Jason Rosell’s new Sexercise workout routine is neither particularly funny nor particularly novel: it’s meant to increase stamina and strengthen muscle...
View ArticleHave Gay Sex All Over Europe!
On Monday, northern Cyprus decriminalized gay sex between consenting adults, making it the last territory in Europe to do so. Your next steps are obvious: 1. Not in Europe? Go to Europe! 2. Have legal...
View ArticleThe History of Adult Stores
You knew that we’re the oldest operating sex store in the country, right? Did you know that the first sex store in the world was a West German joint called the Institute of Marital Hygiene? (Yeah, we...
View ArticleAre Bisexuals Real?????!??!
Following yesterday’s New York Times Magazine article about “The Scientific Quest to Prove Bisexuality Exists,” we just have to ask why. Why do we need to prove that bisexuality* exists? Okay, so some...
View ArticlePut Down the Phone.
A survey from Durex found that 15% of respondents would take a call or answer a text message during sex, while over 5% of those surveyed admitted to using Facebook during sex. Let’s assume that some...
View ArticleWorld’s Best, Worst & Longest Sex
Want to know where to go to have the most exciting sex? Or the longest? Thank goodness for infographics. Seriously, how would we ever plan voyages around the world without them? h/t Vox The post...
View ArticleLyme Disease: Probably an STI
A recent study in The Journal of Investigative Medicine indicates that Lyme disease can be spread through sexual contact, and not just through the bites of infected ticks. The study followed couples...
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