category: ‘Politics’

Hot Shot Condoms

I just love this. This is really marketing at its best.
The Hot Shot condom is slightly shorter and narrower than regular sized condoms, to fit the teeny willies of our 12-14 year old sexually active demographic. Cute!
Right now they’re only available in Switzerland (gotta love the Swiss, really) but they might soon be available in [...]

Sex.com goes bust

How did I not know about the dramatic history of the domain name sex.com?
Well, in any case, apparently there’s a new development in the story of this website, which is apparently (seriously) called “the jewel in the internet’s crown.”
The rights to one of the most notorious adult sites on the internet are up for sale [...]

Operation Titstorm

So in late January, the Australian Classification Bureau “banned mainstream pornography from showing women with A-cup breasts, apparently on the grounds that they encourage paedophilia…” thus criminalizing women with small tits who want to be in adult movies and publications. Oh also, they banned the depiction of female ejaculation. Because it’s “abhorrent”.
I find this just… [...]

Sex and relationship education — could it happen here??

This is just… astonishing. The UK’s Department for Children, Schools and Families just opened a three month consultation period, in which teachers, parents, health professionals, and young people are encouraged to contribute to a new in-school program to teach about sex and relationships. Country-wide.  Says the DCSF:
The purpose of this consultation is to gather views [...]

2009 Sexies

This is really great. The Sex Positive Journalism Awards, or “Sexies” for short, exists “to give mainstream journalists encouragement and support for covering sexual topics in unsensationalistic honest fashion.” You can also check out their award criteria and their list of judges (which include such luminaries as Carol Queen, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and Debby Herbenick).
They [...]

Know your sex radicals: Nan Kinney

This interview is a few years old, but Nan Kinney is not only a friend to Early to Bed, but a sex revolutionary that anyone interested in dyke culture & history should know about. She started Fatale Media and the sadly, now defunct On Our Backs magazine. (the OOB website is WAY outdated, the magazine [...]

Give Nice… Get Naughty!

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From now until the end of the year, we are offering Early to Bed customers a $10 gift Certificate if you donate $10 or more to one of our chosen organizations! It is a great way for folks to give to grassroots organizations [...]

Do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

You know what I’m tired of? The “how does the female orgasm fit into evolutionary science” argument. I’m tired of all angles of this argument, from the camp that says there must be some way female orgasm makes women more evolutionarily viable — as mothers, mates, potential mothers, potential mates– and I’m tired of [...]

YWEP Benefit December 17th!

A ban on fake hymens

I love when media outlets (and, I guess, the world at large) do my work for me. It makes it so easy just to kick back, paste a link, and press publish.
Like this.
Personally, I think the idea of a fake hymen is pretty ingenious in countries that rely on this, shall we say, ephemeral tissue [...]