Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
Robyn Daniels by photographer Andrew Thomas Clifton via curves are for everyone
+ It would be really great if sex toy companies would start making really good sex toys and stop making novelties like vibrating panties:
“Commentators have called the device “smart underwear” and “high-tech panties” that will “take sexting to another level.” I suppose it constitutes a technological achievement that someone has figured out a way to lodge a vibrator in our waistbands without the assistance of human hands. And I haven’t actually stuck the thing down my own pants—maybe it’s a revelation! But I’m not sure that panty placement is the place where sex toys really require innovation. “Wearable tech” might be this season’s big fad, but there’s plenty of work to be done to raise the standard for regular, everyday vibrators that include no sartorial component. With the exception of a few high-end boutique companies, the sex-toy industry is still teeming with devices that suffer from cheap materials, lazy design, gross packaging, lax customer service, mismatched price tags, and a lack of real firepower.”
via coolest humans
+ At Oh Joy Sex Toy, Erika Moen reviewed the Delight.
+ A kinky webcam show recently went for $42,000.
+ The World Air Sex Championships are back for a fifth year.
via secret attic
+ Doctors don’t talk enough about sex.
+ Ms. Naughty rounds up everything related to porn for women from 2013.
+ Lifehacker has a guide to navigating workplace relationships.
+ Em and Lo have some recommendations for a sexier bedroom, including sheets, plants, bed placement, lighting and more:
“Get rid of the bright overheads and decorate with some soft, flattering, low lights in various corners — even better if you put them all on dimmers. The occasional candle or two is nice, but don’t get all satanic ritual-y with 50 red fire hazards lining every surface of your bedroom.”
via seduction lover
+ Correlation is not causation, but just in case, here are the top ten things people do in happy relationships, including walking next to each other, hugging hello, saying good night and going to bed at the same time:
“Remember the beginning of your relationship, when you couldn’t wait to go to bed with each other to make love? Happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at different times. They go to bed at the same time, even if one partner wakes up later to do things while their partner sleeps. And when their skins touch it still causes each of them to tingle unless one or both are too completely exhausted to feel sexually excited.”
Eli by Trevor Wilson
+ At the Toast, Mallory and Nicole discuss talking with a partner who may have dealt with abuse, and why it’s okay to break up if you want to break up:
“I 100% believe, and continue to believe, and HAVE to believe, that when you know, you really do know. I have so many friends (and Nicoles) who have been in mediocre relationships, talked about it constantly, agonized, broke up with or were broken up with, found someone new, and then literally the next thing I heard them say about their partner was “can you make it to my wedding next June?” By which I mean to say, even though I think we are alone in a godless world and there is no meaning of life except for that we create ourselves, there is a qualitative and meaningful difference between a happy, relaxing relationship that brings you both (or all nine of you) joy and comfort and love, and one where you’re just content enough not to care about its inadequacies except at three in the morning or after watching a romantic movie and suddenly feeling very cold and fragile.”
via seduction lover
+ Sugarbutch talks about how to bite someone (and why it is super fun):
“Another thing I love about biting is that I always have the tool with me, my mouth, and I can use it anytime anywhere. I don’t need to set it up or get it out or do anything special, it’s just right there, and conveniently placed. It’s a wonderful tool for a sadist, or for someone who wants to display some possession—either by leaving marks or by making them squeal and squirm and stay in a submissive space through some masochism. A good bite at the right time can tip somebody over the edge and make them come that much harder.”
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Maybe I’m just super hard to please, but I laugh at the stupid stories from Cosmo that say something like, “I have a remote controlled vibrator in my underwear so my boyfriend can make me cum from across the room by adjusting the speed/patterns.” Um, lucky you, for not actually having to move the thing around to get off.
Woah, that Toast article about being in relationships with someone who was abused is spot on in so many ways. Everyone should read it probably.
But where am I going to put the stuffed woodland creatures and plush smiling waffles people keep giving me if NOT in the bedroom??
i would like to thank autostraddle for providing a most stimulating essay writing break for me.
thanks!
I was at the air sex championship in New Orleans in December. It was amazing!
I just moved my med to the middle-ish of my room because I am an ADULT. Thanks Em and Lo for affirming my grown-up ness