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Lora DiCarlo Osé twisted up in the only semi-usable position. Also some others from the line: Baci, Carezza, and Filare.
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Good riddance, Lora DiCarlo

Lora DiCarlo, the “sex tech” start-up that vowed to revolutionize the pleasure industry and pompously acted like the first to...
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The current state of Early to Bed in Chicago, with packing materials amidst dildo displays.
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Dildos in a pandemic: the sex toy industry and COVID-19

Sex shop floors, once bustling with customers, have morphed into makeshift staging areas for packing online orders. The display dildos...
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A selection of toxic sex toys. They smell like beach balls.
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Your genitals deserve better: the case against toxic sex toys

There’s a glimmer of recognition that crosses someone’s face when I ask, “have you ever encountered a sex toy that...
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Browsin' SheVibe's new site on my laptop
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SheVibe’s new site = awesome

There comes a time in every website’s life when it starts to outgrow itself. It becomes clunky, out-dated, technologically subpar....
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Whipspider Rubberworks Tentacle dildo
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Saying goodbye to Whipspider Rubberworks

Want a fantastical dildo in the shape of a unicorn horn or tentacle? This is your last chance. [Edit, years later:...
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Bendable Vertebrae vibrators: colorful, worm-like vibrators in strange positions... because they have SPINES.
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Terrible sex toys I used to lust after

In 2007 when I started reviewing sex toys, I knew nothing about them. Oh, I knew that jelly was bad in theory,...
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Yep. I definitely made a graphic of sex toy magnetic poetry. What, you don't like "erotic objects" or "love aids"?
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What should we call sex toys?

While the rest of the world was chomping on chips and gluing their unblinking eyes to a TV on Superbowl...
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Jollies / LuzArte Jack, Thrust, Mr. Man, and Jollie lying on the floor.
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Goodbye, Jollies

I suspected it was coming when I saw the Jollies toys disappearing from the stores. Everything becoming out of stock....
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Where vibrators are born: my trip to Fun Factory in Bremen, Germany!
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Where vibrators are born: my trip to Fun Factory in Bremen, Germany!

Fun Factory has been a trailblazer in the sex toy industry since their inception. They utilized silicone from the get-go,...
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Cards in a sex game called "Foreplay"
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How not to design a sex game

Why are sex games so bad? This is an eternal question I ask myself regularly. I have a whole label...
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Sex toys from defunct manufacturers Jollies, Whipspider Rubberworks, Eros & Isis, Fucking Sculptures, Papaya Toys, and Ophoria
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When we lose sex toy companies we love

Everything’s temporary if you give it enough time. Jewel Last week, I learned that Fucking Sculptures is closing up shop....
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We-Vibe Sync vibrator with gavel
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So, about that We-Vibe lawsuit…

It’s all over the news right now that We-Vibe is settling a lawsuit over their app-enabled vibrators, and naturally, everyone wants...
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Limited edition tie dye Maverick. My first one was a flesh tone.
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Discontinuation alert: Vixen neon dildos

I HATE WRITING POSTS LIKE THIS, but you guys deserve to know before it’s too late. These beauties from Vixen...
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Dildology logo, a magnifying glass inspecting a dildo.
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Once and for all: what’s in our sex toys?

Everyone knows regulation in the sex toy industry is practically nonexistent, right? We all accept that as fact. We have...
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The polka dot Jollet and a purple Jollie standing next to each other, near a green shower caddy.
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Jollies resurfaces… on Etsy

I mourned the death of sex toy company Jollies half a year ago, but it looks like we all might...
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Bleeding Pussy Stroker with Blood Lubricant
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Um, No?: Topco’s Fucked line

Okay, so, Topco has this new toy line entitled Fucked, and… I’m don’t even know what to think about it....
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Womanizer air flow / pressure wave suction vibrator, with its ridiculous fake jewel, on a very white bed.

Review: Womanizer

Tiny dildos from Tantus, Bad Dragon and Fun Factory standing up on a wooden display shelf.

Review: Tiny Dildos

Me in a motel in 2002, on the bed writing in my journal.

Becoming a real writer

Rainbow notebook, bracelets, and keychain.

The Coming Out Interviews, pt. 1: Mom, I’m queer

Split Dildo chillin' next to my coffee and mug warmer.

Review: Split Dildo

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