Author Archives: Julia

Chicago Pleasure Meetup

We are pleased to welcome the Chicago Pleasure Meetup to our affiliate family!
The Salon, founded back in 2009, is a fantastic place for all of you sex nerds, activists, and pervs to come together to discuss sexy topics and make new friends and connections. They currently have over a thousand members and are always welcoming [...]

Find us on Pinterest!

Like our blog? Did you know that we also have a Pinterest where we post all sorts of things from sexuality resources and toy reviews to feminist activists we love and naughty household goods? Go ahead and check it out. To pique your interest, here’s a sweet infographic we recently posted on pinterest….

Find sexy infographics [...]

National Women and Girls HIV/Aids Awareness Day

Today, March 10th, is National Women and Girls HIV/Aids Awareness Day! Today we join with a bunch of other awesome organizations and communities to help raise awareness about the unique impact HIV/AIDS has on women and girls, to begin conversations about our risks, and to educate on how to keep ourselves healthy regardless of our [...]

When Sex Hurts

Sex is totally awesome. Its fun, feels great, and is good for our bodies, minds, and relationships. We’re pretty much all about helping folks have awesome and healthy sex in the ways that feel awesome and healthy to them. But many women experience pain with sex. Dyspareunia, the fancy medical term for painful sex, can [...]

Its international sex workers rights day!

Some food for thought: “The only solution to the oppression of women exploited as prostitutes is a political elimination of the very notion of female sexual/economic transgression (chosen or forced) by granting all women the same rights, liberties and protections against violation as those to which human beings in general… are entitled. All women’s rights are attached [...]

How Condoms are Made

Have you ever wondered what the inside of a condom factory looks like? Yeah, me neither really. But  maybe we should have ’cause they look pretty damn awesome! Recently, Reuters got to go on a tour inside of Safedom, China’s fourth largest condom seller. David Gray shares a nice little photo essay from his tour [...]

Meet Our Affiliates: In Bed With Bzzingbee

Say hello to Bzzingbee, a toy-crazy reviewer after our own hearts. If you want another opinion on a toy you are considering definitely check her out. Vibrators, dildos, boy toys, but toys, lube, restraints, harnesses, porn… she loves them
Bzzingbee's favorite toy, the pure wand!
all and gives thoughtful and fun reviews. She provides a handy list [...]

Mmmassage Treats

Maybe people are really stressed out or something, but we’ve been getting a lot of questions about massage oils today. So here are all of our massage oils in one handy place…
Kama Sutra Massage Oil is our basic go-to oil for a sensuous massage. Its light, contains vitamin E, and comes in four soothing scents.
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Workshop: Sex for Survivors

[ May 1, 2012; 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] When you’re a survivor of sexual assault or abuse, feeling safe and in control of your body can be challenging. This workshop focuses on embodiment, being present during sex, and sexual empowerment in your solo and partnered sex life. We’ll be talking about triggers, one of the key hurdles in the bedroom after abuse, ways [...]

Where did you wear it?

Have you guys seen Planned Parenthood’s cute new condom education and normalization campaign website? Its like foursquare for safer sex! Where Did You Wear It? lets people put themselves on the safer sex map and proudly share how awesome and sexy lowering the risk of STIs and pregnancy can be. This looks like a really fun [...]