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thrillist.com THE SEXIEST SEX TOYS OF 2015 Date: December 29th, 2015 Think you’ve got it all figured out below the belt? Think again. Sure, hands-only masturbation most definitely has its time and place. But in 2015, these best-selling sex toys were welcomed into bedrooms far and wide, bringing a bounty of pleasure one OH MY GAWD orgasm at a time. Whether you’re a sex-toy virgin (no shame in that) or have a nightstand full of handcuffs and erotica, here are 18 goodies to get you hot and bothered. Go ahead, try something new. |
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sfgate.com S.F. holiday window display presents festive sex toys Date: November 24th, 2015 Holiday window displays are as much a part of the season as Santa at the mall and outdoor skating rinks, but is it too much for a sex toy shop to do a holiday window display of festively colored dildos? |
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marie claire The 10 Most Popular Vibrators, Reviewed by Experts Date: November 2015 Picking out a vibrator can be a daunting task, to say the least. So to save you from getting flustered, or worse–ending up with the wrong one—we asked sex educator Carol Queen, who works for the San Fran-based sex shop Good Vibrations, to share her top picks. Here, she shares her ten favorite vibrators and why they're worth your while.... |
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San Francisco Chronicle Q&A: Is that an eco-friendly condom or are you just happy to see me? Date: October 28, 2015 Sustainability, eco-friendliness and fair trade practices are important to some consumers when it comes to buying coffee, clothing and laundry soap. Should it be any different when it comes to the bedroom? No, say the founders of Sustain, a sexual-wellness company that makes green condoms, water-based lubricants and cleansing towelettes made of 100 percent cotton and nonchlorine bleach. And they believe these are exactly what discerning people need for even safer sex. |
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Salon.com Carol Queen is a fan of Amy Schumer’s “frisky” feminism: She’s “standing up here with a level of swagger that people expect from a fellow when he’s out on the town” Date: October 28, 2015 Carol Queen is a Ph.D-wielding sexologist and, since 1990, an employee at Good Vibrations, the San Francisco sex shop. A longtime educator, anthology editor, and author (her books include “Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture”), she’s also a kind of evangelist for pleasure and tolerance. |
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Cosmopolitan.com In Defense of "Making Love" Date: August 30, 2015 For most of my adult life, I've been creeped out by the phrase "making love." |
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The San Francisco Chronicle Entrepreneur spirit part of city’s DNA Date: August 16, 2015 Mavericks have long bucked the odds to create successful businesses |
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askmen.com The Best Masturbation Toys For Men Date: July 27, 2015 Male masturbation has come a long way since the days of tube socks, tissues and store-bought lotion. While it used to be just you and your hand, there has been a recent boom in the male sex toy market resulting in a plethora of products to make your solo time a lot more pleasurable. After all, why should women get to have all the sex toy fun? |
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Cosmopolitan.com The 15 Best Porn Sites for Women Date: July 22, 2015 As we all know (because we are women), women enjoy porn just as much as guys do. But it's shockingly hard to find good porn in which the woman is actually enjoying herself in a realistic way, and doesn't make you feel bad or sad or just not horny at all. If you don't want to mess up your Google search results by getting deep into some porn searches, I've gotten especially picky and reviewed the best 15 sites for woman-friendly porn. Sites are rated on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being Ron Jeremy (sorry, man), 5 being James Deen (mmm). Now let's broaden our horizons, shall we? (Not too broad though — this is going be an entirely urine-free list. Sorry.) |
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bustle.com 5 Cheap Sex Toys For Better Orgasms, Because Babes On A Budget Deserve To Get Off, Too Date: July 16, 2015 I know what it’s like to be a budget babe. I’ve been known to run like the wind just to score a free bottle of water. Sex toys are no different. Finding the right sex toy on a budget can seem akin to looking for a cheap apartment in New York. Very tricky but not impossible. God knows it’s just as important. After all, this is something you’re going to stick in your vagina (or maybe your butt). Or his penis. Or both! This is way more difficult than shopping for new shoes that fit. |
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autostraddle.com Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Magic Wand Is Now Rechargeable Date: July 7, 2015 AUTOSTRADDLE ANONYMOUS SEX TOY REVIEW #53: |
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modernluxury.com The Best Places to Shop in SF in 2015Date: June 19, 2015 Sex Toys: Good Vibrations 603 Valencia St. (Near 17th St.), |
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womenshealthmag.com From Stone Dildos to Bondage Gear: Watch the Evolution of the Sex Toy An Animated History Sex toys as you know them have a long and twisted history. Since horniness was often seen as a deviant medical issue to be solved, many important sex toy developments are hard to pin down. “It’s challenging to get a definitive history of the sex toy because it usually hasn’t been something that’s acceptable to research,” says Carol Queen, Ph.D., staff sexologist at Good Vibrations and curator of the Antique Vibrator Museum. With that said, what researchers do know is pretty freaking fascinating: |
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Bustle.com What Do You Masturbate To? 9 Women Share What They Fantasize About, From Money To Homemade Porn Because it’s International Masturbation Month and all about loving yourself and getting yourself off, we asked some Bustle readers to share their best ways to get turned on. Here’s an important fact: women masturbate. Even if they’re not completely comfortable with admitting to it for whatever reason ― religion, conservative upbringing, feelings of guilt ― the fact is 92 percent of women masturbate. In fact, people of all relationship statuses masturbate and with 69 percent of people are discussing it with their friends, more people than ever are talking about it. This is a great thing, of course, because masturbation is awesome. Masturbation makes people happy. |
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YourTango.com National Masturbation Month? Hubba Hubba
Never has there been a better time to shine a bright loving light on the art of self pleasuring. |
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SFGATE Good Vibrations marks 20 years of “solo efforts”
Whether you need it or not, Good Vibrations is giving you permission to go it alone, again. San Francisco’s woman-friendly sex shop on Friday, May 1, will celebrate 20 years of efforts to blast cultural taboos stemming from its 1995 decision to designate the month of May as “International Masturbation Month.” The celebration was created for political reasons: U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was fired following a firestorm of criticism by conservatives after she suggested that discussion of sexual self-pleasure might have a role in sex education classes. ... |
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Cosmopolitan 5 Sex Things You Don't Need a Guy ForIf there's ever a man shortage, your orgasms will still survive.
1. Anal sex. If you're freaked out by the prospect of asking some random guy you met on Tinder to gently, *gently*, put his dick in your butt so you can see if that's something you're into, that's totally understandable. So just do it yourself, girl! Grab a dildo that's fairly narrow... 2. Oral sex. I have legit stayed in unfulfilling dating scenarios just because I did not want to give this up. Fortunately, you can still kind of do this on your own with the LELO Ora ($169, GoodVibrations.com). I'm not gonna lie, it's not 100 percent as good as oral sex is, but what machine could be? However, there is a button that moves around like a little metal tongue and once you find a setting that works for you, it's at least a lot closer to feeling like someone's going down on you than just putting a vibe on your clit. ... |
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Bustle 11 Adventurous Sexy Things Anyone Should Try On Valentine's Day, Because Spicing Things Up Doesn't Have To Be Scary Some people hate Valentine’s Day because they think it’s a soul-crushing travesty designed purposefully to make people feel inadequate, but a lot of folks don’t like it simply because they aren’t into the traditional Valentines Day stuff: They couldn’t care less about candlelit dinners or champagne or flowers or chocolate or stuffed bears wearing sashes that say “I love you Bear-y Much.” But they might be more into it if Valentine’s Day were celebrated less by cheesy gifts and more by awesome sexytimes. |
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the guardian Greener sex? Condoms now come in a spectrum of earth-friendly tones If green is your thing, consider yourself in the golden age of sex products. Condoms, in particular, are in the midst of a sustainable renaissance. |
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The Bold Italic 5 THINGS SF’S KINK COMMUNITY WANTS YOU TO KNOW ABOUT “FIFTY SHADES OF GREY” The Fifty Shades of Grey franchise has became a pop culture phenomenon fueled by equal parts fandom and furor over its kinky storyline. It was an suburban porn sensation when it came out in book form and the movie launch last weekend only further ignited talk over the BDSM focused relationship of its main characters. The movie set records, raking in $81.7 million in sales and boosting it among the top debuting R-rated movies in history, according to Variety, so discussions over its erotic themes aren’t going away anytime soon. I recently checked in with the smart and sex-savvy folks in San Francisco’s kink scene to weigh in on the sensation and discovered five main themes to the things the book, the film, and the public are getting wrong. Christian Grey is a pretty bad dude“He’s textbook bad-news boyfriend,” says Kirstie Haruta, a sex educator and sales associate at Good Vibrations. Haruta didn’t finish the book, but then one doesn’t have to get too far into Fifty Shades to discover his creepy behavior. He keeps finding excuses to pop into Anastasia “Ana” Steele’s life, showing up at her work and her house uninvited and literally tracking her cellphone. |
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Salon “50 Shades” of coercive sex: The movie is even worse than the book There is a scene toward the end of the movie “Fifty Shades of Grey” in which Christian Grey whales on a naked Anastasia Steele with a belt. Tears roll across the bridge of her nose. She has the rigid countenance of someone enduring unwanted torture. Afterward, angrily, she tells him, “You will never do that to me again!” He, on the other hand, is flushed and sweaty and has the look of a guy who has just jizzed in his pants. |
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AVN Valentine's Day Confidential: Advice from Some Real Experts ...The Good Vibrations brand is all about education, communication, and deserving pleasure as well as authenticity around becoming your true sexual self. And at the end of the day sometimes you can be really tired from running a company no matter how great it is sooooo it's important to eke out a balance especially with my wife of 22 years that it's fun to still be curious and playful and use my discount on trying out new sex toys we sell ;) |
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Refinery 29 So You Want To Try Pegging The best scene in this week's episode of Broad City on Comedy Central hinges on a bedroom miscommunication. When Abbi finally finds herself in bed with her cute, bearded neighbor Jeremy, she suggests — as one does during sex — that they switch it up. Jeremy's eyes light up and he hurries to his dresser to retrieve...a bright green, custom-made, strap-on dildo. Oh, you meant switch positions, he realizes with embarrassment when Abbi freezes in shock. But, Abbi's game — and for the first time, she tries pegging. |
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SFGATE Fifty Shades of your mom in leather handcuffs Talk about your mixed blessings. |
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Racked Mapped: Non-Skeevy Sex Shops for When You're Feeling Saucy Some people spend the weeks leading up to Valentine's Day shopping for chocolates, jewelry, and flowers. Others prefer more recreational gifts. If you fall into the latter category, but don't know where to start, we've mapped the city's most reliable sex shops in geographical clusters. Skeeviness, of course, is a relative concept, so some of you may prefer to shop these spots online. If that's the case, just remember that most of the websites are incredibly NSFW. |
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Salon Sex shop crimes: How vandals, creeps and violence threaten our neighborhood vibrator peddlers It was past midnight at Self Serve, the Albuquerque, New Mexico, sex toy store where owner Matie Fricker had stayed behind to catch up on paperwork after teaching a class on cunnilingus, when a rock came hurtling through her window. “It was really fast and really hard. It shot glass all over the store,” Fricker told Salon. “It terrified me; I have PTSD and it triggered that.” |
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The Daily Dot How one woman is fighting depression with a public orgasm quest Crista Anne is a mom of three, a Packers fan, a blogger, and the founder of Dildology, an adult novelty consumer advocate website that’s sort of like Yelp for sex toys. And like 6.7 percent of adults in the United States, she also suffers from chronic major depressive disorder. Early on in her life, however, she figured out a novel way to fight her depression: masturbation. “I came out of the womb depressed, but I also came out of the womb with a hand on my clit,” she told the Daily Dot via email. “It's pretty much stayed there ever since.” |
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