If the news we reported recently about Betty Dodson’s Genital Art Gallery being forced offline really got you down, here’s something to brighten your day: There’s an Etsy retailer called Vulva Love Lovely dedicated exclusively to women’s genital and reproductive artsy craftsy thingies. We’re fans of the more lighthearted, graphical stuff: the little cartoon uterus pillows and the vagina dentata clutch. Babeland (the folks we heard about Vulva Love Lovely from) really like the vulva portrait necklaces fashioned after customers’ own naughty bits (you send them a photo or description to work from). We could maybe see carrying around one of their little generic vulva pendants on a keychain as a funny feminist statement…maybe. But wearing your own spread eagle around your neck? That takes serious labes.
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Since we were extolling the virtues of condoms the other day (in light of all the withdrawal hub-bub), we wanted to talk about a new brand on the market. While we often automatically dismiss Trojans as your basic, quintessential (i.e. unexciting) condom, they’ve actually been making real efforts to compete with some of the more revolutionary fits, textures and shapes available today. So we asked Condomania’s CEO, Adam Glickman, what was up with their most recent make, Trojan Ecstasy (read on for a special discount link):
When did the Trojan Ecstasy line hit the market?
Just in the past few months.
Is it designed to feel better for him or for her, or both?
They are designed to feel better for both men and women, although the big benefit really does come for the guys.
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TheyFit Condoms were the first sized-to-fit condoms available a few years back. (Before ordering, you actually needed to use their Fit Kit™ to measure “the Johnson in question.”) It was a revolutionary idea, but then they mysteriously disappeared from the market. Now they’re back at Condomania for a limited time, so we asked their CEO Adam Glickman what was up…
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photo: from Babeland’s Hello Kitty Vibrator Contest
Here’s a round-up of some new sex-related swag available. We’ll let you decide which category each falls into:
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Then this is the shirt for you! Thinkgeek is pushing this $23 T with the following promotional copy that’s so geeky even we’re not sure what most of it means:
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Being a vegan is hard sometimes: going out to restaurants with friends makes you as high maintenance as Meg Ryan in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, stand-up comedy is usually not a career option, and finding a condom made without animal by-products like milk protein is damn near impossible. Thank goodness for Glyde Condoms, then — 100% vegan latex love socks that come in 3 sizes and 6 flavors (including unflavored). Plus, they aren’t tested on animals. Here’s a list of where to get ‘em — so you can have sex like an animal, not with an animal.
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Pubic hair dinner plate by Ana Mir
This collection of 32 unnecessarily naughty products proves that any product you can possibly think of can be made X-rated. We understand the market for gimmicky bachelor and bachelorette party favors, but sexy stained glass and cookie jars? Now that’s just plain wrong. Is nothing sacred anymore? And actually, most of the items on this list aren’t even novelty crap. Of course there’s the obligatory sexist sound system, the hairy bush change purse, and the plastic pole dancer alarm clock (which we kind of like for its potential Pavlovian effect — imagine the alarm clock owner visiting a strip club and every time a stripper grinds up against the pole, he feels the urge to go home and take a cold shower).
But the majority of the offenders are actually high, um, “art.” Like sperm wallpaper, the Karl Lagerfeld breast bowl, or this plate with a faux stray pube on the edge, presumably so you can sit around the dinner table and say, “Waiter, waiter, there’s a pube in my soup!” Oh, the hilarity. (That joke’ll set you back $90 per plate at the MOMA gift store. We shit you not.)
The worst idea of all, however, has to be the kitchen utensils that double as sex toys. Sure, we’ve all appropriated a kitchen spatula for an impromptu spanking session. But for the most part, we think tools should be single-purpose only. Do you really want to prepare a meal for your mother-in-law using your dildo? And don’t get us started on what happens when you cook with red hot chili peppers…
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photo: Clever Covers
You read the New York Times weekend edition cover to cover; you spice up cocktail party conversation by quoting Proust and Kant; you adore obscure indie shorts on SundanceChannel.com. You’re an intellectual who never shies away from metaphysical debates or multi-syllabic words. BUT…you’ve got a deep dark secret: you’re addicted to trashy romance novels or, worse, you read Playboy — and not for the articles! Don’t worry, your secret is safe on the commute home with Clever Covers — book and magazine covers to hide your private shame while making you seem erudite. The book-size cover is titled “Complete Japanese for International Business” and the magazine-size cover is “Advanced Quantum Physics” (8 Canadian dollars each). But be warned: You’re on your own if you get hit on by a Japanese PhD candidate or Henry Stapp. (Look it up.)
[via Better Living Through Design]
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