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So cute! A couple was just in here with the sole purpose of getting the wife her first vibrator.

All she kept going back to was the duck. Him and I would wonder off talking lubes and this and that. She would return to the duck and squatted down to play with it.

There is nothing wrong with the duck. We just had higher hopes for her. He made a big rainbow on the counter of his top picks and coaxed her out of her squatted position to pick something. Something he would want in bed with him, other than a big plastic vibrating duck.

After 30 years, Hitachi has decided to distance itself from the sex toys and rebrand the Hitachi Magic Wand so that it no longer associates with the Hitachi brand. What does this mean?

The same company will distribute the toy, but have made a few changes.

DON'T WORRY! Apparently (though I haven't tested it yet) the vibration is equally as strong as the now old version. The design is slightly different and the on/off button is less finicky.

If you are a Hitachi fan, get ready to start calling it "The Original Magic Wand" and forget about the cheesy 80s style packaging with people innocently using it on their back and legs.

We still have a box of the "old" ones left so come'an'get'em!

A customer got me savvy to the fact that certain kinds of marijuana can work wonders on helping inorgasmic women achieve orgasm.
As it's 4-20 today, that seems like an appropriate sex tip to blog about.

I just get mega paranoid and crave tai chi, especially the 'repulse like monkey' move where you creep slowly backwards and fling your arms up - but for some women, horniness and relaxed inhibition are the lovely side effects.

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Have you ever been friends with an ER employee? If yes, exactly how many stories were you told about people coming in with weird stuff in their butts?

Next time you’re hanging out, tell them that some dude in China put an Eel in his butthole.

Yup.
 

Do you HATE condoms? Have they ruined a saucy moment (or ten) by getting caught, not unrolling properly, or exploding? Are you upset because rational you understands their giant importance while less-rational you wants to flush every condom ever down to toilet hell? FEAR NOT! A new kind of condom is in the works and it is preeeeetty cool. Condoms have remained crappy since their invention in the 15th century. A company called Origami Condoms is totally reinventing them and it is totally about time. They are made with silicone, so even safer than the current common latex condom.

Things sex-positivity is:

• Being acceptive & supportive of other people's sexuality & kinks
•  Unlearning the shame associated with those kinks, our bodies, and sexuality in general
• Being open-minded about new, sexy things
• Practicing good consent!

Things sex-positivity is not:

• Calling us so you can masturbate on the phone
• Assuming sex shop employees want to watch you dry hump
• Involving unconsenting parties in your sex play (see above)

That is all.

Here is a little special something for those of you who enjoyed seeing E.T. and his nude little body: 

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Twitter, twitter, twitter. The never-ending archives of what people are eating for lunch or watching on TV or thinking about politics (summed up in 140 opinionated characters). But sometimes, just sometimes, something awesome comes out of it. Like the hashtag #safetytipsforladies, created to satirize the don’t-wear-this-don’t-say-that-and-for-the-love-of-god-DON’T-GO-ANYWHERE rhetoric meant to help women “avoid” rape.

Here’s a roundup of some of my favs:

‏@DrRuthie: Short skirts = vulnerability. Quickly put a stretchy micro-mini on potential rapists to neutralize danger. #safetytipsforladies

The peudo summer has arrived for us all here on the west coast and my mind has turned to summer things: Road trips, lazy bike rides, inviting a lover over for a ride in my sex swing now that my apartment is actually warm. http://www.artofloving.ca/sexercise/sex-swings-pillows/love-swing
The Love Swing has been a top seller of our pricier gear for years and worth every penny. The momentum and bounce of them is very summer. Grab a drill, drive it in a beam and voila! Bunny sex!

Capuchin monkeys have a bias against assholes. Given the choice to accept treats from either humans who were observed by the monkeys to accept to help or not help another human, they tended to go for the treats offered by the kinder, helpful human. “Explicit refusal to help is a signal that you’re dangerous, that you’re negative,” says Kiley Hamlin, a developmental psychologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

See, monkeys have their shit figured out. Now I'm pulling this next stat out of my ass, but I'm pretty sure that 98% of us humans have either dated, befriended, or done a favour for an asshole, knowing that they were an asshole.

I went to the grocery store last week wearing nipple clamps and a butt plug under my clothes. Your turn.

I’m going to start handing out sexy challenges and that’s the first: go out in public wearing a hidden bullet vibe or butt plug (with a flared base!). Anything that makes your want to giggle while talking to strangers, really.

Go forth, my perverts.
 

Tomorrow, March 8th is International Women's Day!
Last year I took a martial arts class with women. This year I want to do something that says I love you.
I've decided to buy my favorite feminist a token of my appreciation. She might be reading this, so I won't tell you what it is. It will be nice and something I would like bought for me.
Okaaay, I'll be easy and share with you: A Macdonald's gift card for a shamrock shake. You're THAT special, baby-lady.
Lies! I won't give it away but how about join me in fortifying your favorite fighting member of the 'weaker' sex with a symbol of your love?

We regularly have customers who ask us about certain resources around the city. Where to join a swing party, how to find a dom, where buy certain product that we may not be able to get in for them etc etc. Until recently we'd give out whatever bits and pieces of information we could and did our best to support everyone's search for sexual satisfaction.

The weather, the one weather we have: the rain! It's inspiring a few of us to do some serious playtime inside.

A man, through sheer dismal disgust in the incessant downpour is purchasing each and every educational video we have. Getting off, and studying up he figures is time well spent inside with his wife.

Another customer picked up a glass curved dildo to figure out her G-spot along with a mini vibe to keep her clitoris engaged.

There are couples coming in from farther wet parts, renting a hotel room and joining us for a seminar too.

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For the sake of privacy, I won’t go into detail, but a customer was kind enough to share some suggestions on making him more comfortable in the store today. If you’re reading this, thank you!

Sex shops can be weird and intimidating and awkward for a lot of people, and it’s a huge part of our job here to make people as comfortable as possible. Helping people find products is part common sense, part empathy, part intuition, and a whole lot of listening. It’s not easy for everyone to articulate what they need, but I love it when someone does. It sticks, I promise you.