New Oxballs Products

We just got in our first shipment of cock, ball, and nipple toys from Oxballs! These toys are built for serious sensations out of phthalate-free TPR. These aren’t even on our website yet, but here’s a sneak peek… Oxball Nip-pull Suckers (PVC) create hard-core suction where you want it. The outside sports a raised diamond [...]

Support Chicago Dyke March

Chicago Dyke March 2013

Chicago Dyke March Collective is a grassroots mobilization and celebration of dyke, queer, bisexual, and transgender resilience. It is an anti-racist, anti-violent, volunteer-led, grassroots effort with a goal to bridge together communities across race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, size, gender identity, gender expression, sexuality, culture, immigrant status, spirituality, and ability. This is a truly fabulous [...]

Mother’s Day Round Up

We wish you all a fantastic Mother’s Day tomorrow! There are many great things being posted this week in celebration of motherhood and Moms, so I thought I’d do a little round up to share some of our favorites… Did you know that Mother’s Day wasn’t always about brunch and flowers? It actually has some [...]

Return of the Masturbation May Haiku Contest

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That’s right, it is back Self-loving haiku contest Submit yours today!   Submit your masturbation themed haikus (limit 5 per person)  in the comments below, on our Facebook wall, or on Twitter! Due by May 31st. Top 10 are posted on our blog. Top 3, as chosen by our staff win prizes! 1st Prize: $40 [...]

Great Sex for Every Body

I encourage each and every one of you to go read this article that Marianne from XOJane wrote about fat sex, which is really a list of tips on how folks of ALL shapes and sizes can have hotter more enjoyable sex lives. Its really the greatest thing I’ve read all day. Her tone and [...]

Reason #248 to Visit the Shop: Vintage Sex Manual Oddities

I somehow stumbled across this amusing little article titled 1950′s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Sex Presents the Dali hellscape inside your crotch, which pokes fun at an old sex manual from 1950. I got about halfway through the witty commentary on this book’s bewildering illustrations before realizing that I had seen this before. Sure enough, a copy [...]

Watch Out For Falling Cocks!

There is nothing more mesmerizing than shiny, bouncy CGI dongs and here is the video to prove it. I cannot tell you how many times I have watched this video on repeat today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgLzrTPkdgI&feature=player_embedded You’re welcome.

PROS Network Chicago Launch Event

Please join us On May 8, 2013! SWOP-Chicago is pleased to host a public reception to celebrate the launch of PROS Network-Chicago; an exciting new directory and network of helping professionals, clinics and agencies offering non-judgmental, client-centric resources and support to people in the sex trade. The reception will take place at Cortelyou Commons (DePaul [...]

You asked: Oil-Based Lube on a Silicone Toy?

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We usually recommend water based lube to use with silicone toys because some silicone based lubes interact poorly with some silicone toys. Its simpler to just stick with the water based lube, especially because we love them so much anyway. But if you, like me, are in the throes of a love affair with silicone lube (it [...]

Cliteracy

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I am loving this series of prints, by Sophia Wallace, about the general state of illiteracy when it comes to female anatomy of pleasure. This series is a fresh and sometimes humorous take on Ann Koedt’s 1970 essay, The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm.