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Climax delay condoms gone cute.

Lux Alptraum — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:14:34 +0000

As a general rule, we’re not really fans of climax delay condoms (the numbing agents most of them use aren’t good for you, and, well, just make sex less enjoyable). But we’re still amused by this ad for Olla Prolong condoms, which offer an illustration of what, exactly, your sperm cells might be getting up [...]

Laid: Luscious sex toys for men and women.

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:45:35 +0000

With every passing day, it seems like it gets easier and easier to find well made, well designed, body friendly sex toys–something we’re quite pleased about. Today we discovered a new company to oo and ah over: the Norway-based Laid. Though their selection of toys is currently limited to two cock rings and a dildo, [...]

A photo too far?

Lux Alptraum — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:12:28 +0000

Cristina Mortágua has just posed topless. That wouldn’t be that big a deal–except the photo also features her being embraced by her fifteen year old son. Is this toeing the line towards incest–or is it just something us prudes should get over and accept as art? [globo.com]

Women: they’re like drugs to men.

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:59:48 +0000

We tend to take the findings of sexuality-related studies with a grain of salt (at least until their results have been duplicated by a few other sources, at least), but we’re nonetheless fascinated by a recent study written up in the Daily News that claims that the sight of a curvaceous lady activates the same [...]

Orgasmatron 3000 puts the fun back in household chores.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:51:39 +0000

Today in unnecessary (yet totally amazing) sex toy innovations: the Orgasmatron 3000. What is it, you ask? Why–and we mean this quite literally–a leather clad washing machine outfitted with a saddle. So that the user can literally ride the waves generated by the sheer awesome power of the household gadget. Our only question: does it [...]

Fifteen years old, and full of raging hormones.

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:17:43 +0000

This one’s a little complicated, so bear with us. Jump is a Brazilian ad agency–one that’s been around for fifteen years. And like any fifteen year old, they’re just bursting with boiling hormones… So to celebrate their fifteenth anniversary, they created this ad spread of a lingerie-clad woman. The two pages come glued together, so [...]

Australia bans small breasts, ejaculation from adult entertainment.

Lux Alptraum — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:20:56 +0000

Australia: a land where prostitution is (mostly) legal, cursing on TV is par for the course...and a byzantine structure of censorship renders most XXX material illegal to own, sell, or both. Newly added to the list of banned acts: small breasts and female ejaculation. Why small breasts? Well, the ban is specifically focused on women who's breasts give them the appearance of being underage (unlike America, Australia frowns on "barely legal" porn, as well as anything meant to make adult actresses look like they're youthful or underage). Of course, declaring that one very common body type is unwelcome in erotic material does have more than a few unpleasant implications, as Jezebel outlines.

Finally, a positive side to airport security.

Lux Alptraum — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:42:47 +0000

We know of at least one good thing to come out of the whole underwear bomber shenanigans: lingerie ads inspired by those “naked” full body scanners. Okay, we’d much rather have a shorter stay at airport security (and retain at least a little bit of our privacy)…but at least we’ve got this clever ad for [...]

An erotic emporium’s menu of services.

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:49:43 +0000

Soliciting the services of a sex worker can be tricky work: you may know, in your head, what you want, but communicating that to your hired escort isn’t always easy. And then negotiating the price? Forget about it! If only all bordellos were like Mrs. F.A. Tasse’s Capacious Capsulation Parlors, which offered this very specific [...]

Is that a broomstick in your pocket, or are you trying to sell pants with sexual innuendo?

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:25:07 +0000

Today in wacky vintage sexual innuendo: this ad for Broomsticks (apparently a brand of pants), which informs the reader that there’s more than meets the eye to this product…and, presumably, to the male pelvic regions hovering by the head of the young lass in the advertisement. How much more there is to either of these [...]

The complicated sex lives (and genitals) of ducks.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:09:24 +0000

Eversion in air: from blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom from Carl Zimmer on Vimeo.

Competition within--and between--the sexes have long had a way of influencing biology. Deer grow antlers with which to battle each other, peacocks flaunt elaborate tails to attract peahens. But none of these can hold a candle to the wonders that are duck genitals.

The subtlest lube ad we’ve seen.

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:07:52 +0000

Advertisers have quite a few options when creating an ad for personal lubricant–we’ve seen everything ranging from the classily subtle to the innuendo heavy to the just plain weird. This ad, coming out of Chile (click to see it full size), gets a few points for being incredibly subtle–though we have to say, once we [...]

Retrosexy: Dacron slacks can withstand all sorts of action.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:10:53 +0000

Proof that sex has always been a part of advertising: this retro Dacron slacks ad, which promotes its product’s ability to withstand the most strenuous action of all: the kind that gets doled out by a trio of doe-eyed, busty lovelies. Apparently group sex wasn’t invented during the Summer of Love. Who knew? Busty triplets [...]

AVN releases awards nominations.

Lux Alptraum — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:45:49 +0000

Come this January, a who's who of adult entertainment talent will descend upon Las Vegas, first for the Adult Entertainment Expo--the largest US adult industry trade show--and then for the AVN Awards, the awards show commonly referred to as the Oscars of porn.

JimmyJane’s Form 2: a rabbit unlike any other.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:46:55 +0000

LELO’s not the only one reinventing the rabbit vibe: JimmyJane’s Form 2 is a simplified–and beefed up–version of the Rabbit that’s sure to please. Stripping away the shaft, and leaving just the “rabbit” behind, the Form 2 is two wiggly ears of pleasure. Above, a video from JimmyJane that demonstrates just how good it gets. [...]

LELO reinvents the rabbit.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:06:57 +0000

The dual action–or “rabbit” vibrator–is probably one of the best known sex toys on the market. It’s also one of the most overrated. Most rabbit vibrators are cheaply made, using toxic materials, and running on weak motors that give out long before you’re done with them. But one company is about to change all that. [...]

The Big Boob Fairy finds out how big is too big.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:04:29 +0000

There are women with small breasts, women with big breasts, women with really big breasts…and then there’s the big boob fairy. Shu Yong’s “Bubble Woman” installation (installed in a public park in Foshan, Guangdong province, China) explores the question of how big we want our breasts to be…and seems to discover that, yes, there is [...]

Carrie Prejean: former Miss California, latest sex tape scandal.

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:36:43 +0000

We live in hope that one day–one blessed day–we will all get over the “shock” that we all supposedly feel upon the discovery that some vaguely notable person has a sex tape…and just admit to ourselves, once and for all, that pretty much everyone has a sex tape. Or wants to have a sex tape. [...]

This vampire thing has gone too far.

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:50:01 +0000

You know, we were fine with “True Blood,” and we even tolerated “Twilight”–but we’ve now officially reached our limit with these vampire shenanigans. What was the straw that broke the proverbial (and fanged) camel’s back? This week, Fleshlight–the company behind those flashlight shaped masturbatory devices–announced a new release, the Succu-Dry. From far away, the Succu-Dry [...]

Kids Do The Darnedest Things!

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:48:34 +0000

What does a child simulating sex with naked Barbie and Ken dolls have to do with reading the daily paper? We’re not entirely sure, but this Danish commercial seems to be suggesting that both activities are an ordinary part of daily life. Based on our own life experiences, we couldn’t agree more.

Lorelei Lee: From DP to NYU (and back again)

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:25:11 +0000

Though doing porn to “pay for college” is an oft cited cliche, there are, in fact, many girls in the adult industry who are working their way through school–and taking their classes seriously, too. Lorelei Lee is one of those girls: the ten year veteran of the adult biz recently moved to New York City [...]

Vancouver International Film Festival: Keep an open mind

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:50:42 +0000

Thinking of attending the Vancouver International Film Festival? It’s best you arrive with an open mind: some of the films may be a bit disturbing, others will have subtitles, and–as our favorite spot reminds us–there may be quite a bit of sexual content. Some more unusual than the rest. Vancouver International Film Festival: Sexuality [adsoftheworld.com]

FapMapper: Your guide to the action in your neighborhood.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:42:59 +0000

Do you ever find yourself wondering what parts of your neighborhood are seeing the most action? The answer may soon be just an iPhone web app away. Pink Visual has just launched a beta version of their FapMapper, a Google map that allows you to map your, er, faps (and browse those of other FapMapper [...]

FMySexLife: your daily dose of love life fail.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:00:54 +0000

To misquote Anna Karenina, all good sex is alike, but each act of bad sex is bad in its own way. Need proof? Take a minute to check out FMySexLife, a user-generated blog documenting the many ways we fail at (and are failed by) sex. From tales of thwarted passion to lonely nights at home [...]

Bianco Footwear gives your feet that naughty feeling.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:02:36 +0000

We’ve heard of penile orgasms, clitoral orgasms, g-spot orgasms, p-spot orgasms, and even nipple orgasms…but orgasms for your feet? Maybe that’s what the foot fetishists are all on about… (That, or we’re totally missing the point of this commercial.) Feet Orgasm [illegaladvertising.com]

How sexy is your city?

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:20:51 +0000

Ever wonder how sexy your city is? Well, if you’re based in the UK, you have a chance to find out: UK sex toy retailer LoveHoney has created the UK Sex Map, which uses data on sex-related spending to determine just how sexy different townships are. For example: the people of red hot Upminster spends [...]

Just got implants? Have we got the bra for you.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:18:54 +0000

There are bras for women with small boobs, bras for women with big boobs, bras for women who don't want to cover their boobs--and now, finally, someone's come up with a bra that's specifically designed for fake boobs.

Culture wars: The New York Post vs. the Standard Hotel

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:10:06 +0000

The end of August is always a slow season for news–and nowhere is that more evident than in the New York Post’s extensive coverage of the Chelsea Standard Hotel “controversy.” This past Monday, the Post ran a story on a recently discovered feature of New York’s newly opened High Line park. In addition to offering [...]

You gotta fight for your right to go topless.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:04:14 +0000

In most places in America, men are free to walk around in public without a shirt on–while women who attempt to do so risk harassment, fines, and even arrest. While some might see that as a natural difference between the sexes, others see it as a cruel double standard. And they’re planning on fighting it…by [...]

Food for thought (and adult fun, too)

Lux Alptraum — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:00:43 +0000

We all know that sex can sell anything from clothes to cars to chewing gum–but what about a chewing gum that’s trying to sell sex? Sexlets is being marketed as a gum with a special blend of ingredients that, ahem, helps with male sexual enhancement. Odd as it may seem, it’s not the only confectionary [...]

A tale of two book covers.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:53:15 +0000

Above, the covers for two erotica anthologies. When MILF Fantasies was released as an ebook by Ravenous Romance earlier this year, it barely sold. Young Studs was made available shortly after, and shot into Ravenous Romance’s top ten. This would be nothing more than a curiosity of sales data, were it not for one essential [...]

Love and sex with robots: a vision from the 1920s

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:13:51 +0000

David Levy’s Love and Sex with Robots may have hit the shelves just a few years ago, but the idea of love and sex with robots is hardly a new one. Even as far back as the 1920′s, people were envisioning a future in which robots–or “automatic men”–would be available to tend to the needs [...]

Give your sex toy a new life… as a door stopper

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:03:47 +0000

Sometimes a girl (or boy) really can have too many toys–sex toys, that is. If your toy chest is overflowing with products you’ve no time to use, check out this inspirational page full of ideas for repurposed toys. Turn that buttplug into a door stopper, or use it to stop up your leaky sink. And [...]

“Not Monday Night Football XXX”: A porn parody too far?

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:50:42 +0000

For the past few years, porn parodies of popular sitcoms have been increasingly big business–and for good reason, too. With rampant piracy decreasing the adult industry’s market share, porn companies are eager to latch on to anything that sells: and, not surprisingly, the age old formula of taking a popular TV show and getting the [...]

Things to say during sex: a handy diagram.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:04:10 +0000

Though we’ve been led to believe that pillow talk is something that just comes naturally–that we’ll all just magically know just the right thing to say in the heat of the moment–the truth is often anything but. Sure, sometimes we managed to pull it off, but more often than not, words fail us (or, worse [...]

It’s a wrap with condom pillows.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:36:31 +0000

Look for a gift that says "I'm stylish, fun...and I practice safer sex"? Well, look no further than these giant pillows silkscreened to look like condoms.

Burger King wants to feed you seven inches of meat.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:24:10 +0000

What is it about red meat--and women and meat, specifically--that seems to evoke sex? Carl's Jr. has long been known for to use sex to shill its sandwiches: Audrina Partridge, Padma Lakshmi, and, of course, Paris Hilton have all been know to bring sex appeal to their spots for their company. Now it appears that Burger King wants to get in on the party, too.

Talk dirty to me–in Japanese.

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:43:52 +0000

Is your pillow talk growing stale? Do you long for some new phrases to spice up your conversations between the sheets? Why not add a little Japanese flavor to your carnal acts?

Carnalpedia: an encyclopedia of smut

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:30:24 +0000

Sure, Wikipedia is there to give you a list of every Simpsons episode ever, or help you figure out when Brigitte Bardot was born–but what if you’re looking to do research of a more, ahem, prurient nature? Carnalpedia hopes to become the go-to source for all your sexy research. Using the same platform as Wikipedia, [...]

Nofound(secret): A sexy email surprise

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:30:52 +0000

Is there anyone among us who doesn’t enjoy getting a surprise in the mail? Better yet: what if you could receive an unexpected, sexy surprise in your email–sometimes as often as twice a week, or as rarely as twice a year, depending on the whims of the sender? That’s the promise of Nofound(secret), a mailing [...]

Jewelry moves downstairs

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:20:39 +0000

You wear rings on your fingers, bracelets on your arms, and weigh your neck down with all sorts of jewels--but are you really as blinged out as you could be? Perhaps you should consider purchasing some anal jewelry, just to make sure you've covered all your bling bases.

BabeLicious: A flavored lube we’d actually like to lick.

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:22:29 +0000

Everyone knows that wetter is better--but when you have to put your mouth to the moisture, well, most commercial lubes leave more than a little to be desired. Even flavored lubes aren't particularly appealing: not only are they limited to a rather unimaginative selection of flavors--they're also incapable of even moderately mimicking the taste they claim to offer up (last we checked, bananas didn't taste like chemicals).

Hot Tweeters: The ranking site you didn’t know you needed

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:29:35 +0000

It seems safe to say that no technology can be deemed truly mature until people are using it to cast judgment on others' appearances (that, or to try and get a date). The founders of Twitter can breathe easy, then, now that Hot Tweeters (a sort of "Hot or Not" for Twitter) has arrived.

Hot and steamy: the Steampunk Vibrator

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:27:21 +0000

While most sex toy designers are striving to make their toys as technology advanced as possible, Ani Niow decided to take a different tack: rather that equipping her concept vibrator with a bunch of computerized bells and whistles, she decided to create something as simple as possible, developing a vibrator that could have been made [...]

Nothing says class like a beautiful glass dildo

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:15:21 +0000

Celebrating a special occasion with your significant other, and need a set of toys to fit the mood? When even your best silicone toys won’t do, consider these finely crafted glass dildos, perched atop their very own champagne stems. We hear they go great with Prosecco. (Alas, these aren’t actually for sale… yet, at least. [...]

Birth control cards remind the one you love to play safe

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:40:28 +0000

Have a friend who needs a little reminder about safer sex? Send her a note on one of these handmade cards, featuring vintage sex ed info. True, the information about birth control is a little dated (there’ve been more than a few updates in birth control technology since 1972)–but it’s still a cute and clever [...]

Bodylicious: because food tastes better on someone naked

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:34:09 +0000

We may never be fortunate–or decadent–enough to have the opportunity to eat sushi off of nubile, naked body; but at least Hiroshi Tsunoda’s Bodylicious gives us a chance to pretend that we are, in fact, that cool. The set of three ceramic trays join together to create the form of a nude body, one perfectly [...]

Said In Bed: as awkward as the act

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:52:03 +0000

Photo: camiodefractal In our fantasies, dirty talk is always perfectly executed–suave, sexy, and just the right amount of funny. In the real world, though… not so much. And don’t even get us started on the things people say after they’ve done the deed. Said In Bed peers into the awkward, horrifying, and occasionally endearing world [...]

Highly Evolved Sex Toys

Lux Alptraum — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:30:46 +0000

Historically, sex toys haven’t been known for their beautiful design (unless you’re partial to jelly rubber and molded plastic genitals)—but over the past few years, that’s begun to change. One company that’s been leading the charge for sex toys that are both beautiful to look at and fun to use is Lelo, a Sweden-based operation [...]

Kama Sutra cookie cutters

Lux Alptraum — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:50:11 +0000

They say the way to a man’s heart is through the stomach—but what if you’re aiming for an area that’s a little further south? Swedish company Pipparkakan might have just the thing you need: their Kama Sutra cookie cutters allow you to transform an ordinary dish into an aphrodisiac buffet—provided your potential paramour is aroused [...]