I’m heading to Las Vegas this week for the Adult Entertainment Expo, which I’m writing up for Tango as part of an article about both AEE and Love LA and what they offer for women. I’ve also lined up a meeting with OhMiBod about their “new and exciting” thingie that I’m still under NDA about (watch this space after Thursday - I’m getting a demo in the morning). I will be talking to the Real Touch folks abo...

I keep getting press releases that assure me that while all other retail is slumping, sex sales are doing just fine. The number and somewhat forcedly gleeful tone of these makes me suspicious — but I also am a firm believer in positive thinking. If retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers and producers of sex stuff want to tell me multiple times that their industry is doing well, then that’s fine by me. Better than the fearmongering that...

Last month I prepared my L.A. house to rent out and moved to northern California in 17 days. (The other 10ish were spent out of town working full time onsite hours for day job clients.) Suffice it to say, I’m crawling back to blogging somewhat battered and bruised, but landed in the new place with the DSL set up. If I were still writing Sex Drive for Wired, I would have written about this story for this week: Strange Experiments Create Body...

For those of you just now stumbling into the sexrev2.0, here’s a bit about how and why it began: Plugged into sex & technology

Here’s that piece I kept Twittering about, finally finished after a month that included a death, a wedding, and the beginning of my move back to northern California. My Computer Made Me Gay A computer game introduces one woman to bisexual experimentation?and a girlfriend. By Regina Lynn. “I see an exciting adventure in your future, a new sexual experience that forever changes you,” she said, tracing the sole of my foot with one...

Got this in my Sexual Intelligence newsletter this morning and thought it was pretty good, so here it is with my notes: Dear President Obama: For months, I’ve been predicting that when you win, nothing will change regarding sex. I’ve said you won’t stop the government’s War On Sex; you won’t demand respect for sexual rights as human rights; you won’t prevent religious fanatics from controlling non-believersR...

… I’m a Tango blogger crush of the week. I’m writing the threesome/Onyx article in thirds and have completed the first third. Between deaths, weddings, travels and day job crises, I’m way behind. Many thanks to my editor Maureen for understanding. I will earn that crush, you’ll see …

The Tanni Machine is a lightweight, lovely functional art piece made of oak that makes it possible to penetrate yourself without an awkward reach. It costs about $200, comes in Natural or Black, and while it doesn’t match the smooth, hands-free glide of the Monkey Rocker, it’s also a quarter of the price. The comparison is inevitable. Both machines are hand-made. Both aim for a subtle aesthetic, not an industrial or high-tech vibe. A...

I just got an interview request from a journalist working on an article for a big men’s magazine on the following topic: ..this is the 2nd great sexual revolution - the first, in the 60s, when abortion & the pill shifted sex from being about procreation to recreation. Along with other scientific advances, I think it fundamentally led women to ask the question: do we need men at all? Driven by sex-machines and love-computers (ie vibrat...

One benefit to audio erotica is that it keeps your hands and eyes free, unlike books and videos. It’s also a convenient way for two or more people to experience the story simultaneously. But I was neutral about the newly launched clickforeplay and its adult radio plays … until I listened to a sample. Hot. My hopelessly Californian ears can’t identify the type of accent other than “sexy British” but honestly that was...

In a tip almost worth of Sexier Sex, entertainer Aubrey O’Day gives women a sex-tech tip for safe steamy sex: watch your homemade sex video — and then watch your man delete it. O’Day Insists Boyfriends Delete Sex Tape Footage The singer admits she gets turned on by filming her steamy sex sessions and then watching them afterwards but she takes precautions to make sure the footage never ends up online or on a DVD. She tells Com...

The Calgary Herald has a nice introductory piece about consumer-grade teledildonics: Sending good vibrations over the Internet Cyber sex isn’t just the late-night pastime of techno-tarts, sex addicts and pedophiles. [snip] “That mental and emotional connection you make during cybersex, even when you’re just typing words or sending emoticons or photos, makes the body respond. Now there’s a physical device that — albe...

The second life/ohmibod party starts at 10pm in-world time, which is Pacific time for those of you who only have a first life. *evil grin* I’m going to the in-person event since it’s only 20 minutes away, but if I can get on a machine, I’ll be there in SL too. I asked Stroker Serpentine when the HUD/toy demo would occur and he said “early,” and I have the impression that they’ll try to do it within the first h...