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KEGEL WEEK: “Fifty Shades of Grey” Spikes Sales of LELO’s Luna Beads Soar

Thursday, August 2, 2012

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“Trust me?” he asks softly. I nod. He holds out his hand, and in his palm are two round, shiny, silver balls, linked with a thick black thread. “These are new,” he says emphatically. I look questioningly up at him. “I am going to put these inside of you, and then I’m going to spank [...]

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KEGEL WEEK: An Introduction to Your Pelvic Floor Muscles (Meet Mr. Kegel)

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

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image via someecards The following is excerpted from our first sex manual, The Big Bang: We don’t care if you’ve never been to a gym in your life; you simply must work out your pelvic muscles if you want to consider yourself sexually fit. Don’t worry, you won’t break a sweat. You can even start [...]

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50 Shades of Play: A Guide to the Toys in “Fifty Shades of Grey”

Thursday, July 26, 2012

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Etherea silk cuffs by Lelo Say what you will about the literary merit of E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, but you can’t deny the sexual curiosity they’ve ignited, the sexual knowledge they’ve imparted and the sexual delight they’ve given, where most readers are concerned. The result has been a boon for the sex [...]

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The Original “Fifty Shades of Grey”

Monday, July 16, 2012

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In my senior year of high school, I (Lo) read “The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty”, the first in a three-book series by vampire-genre goddess Anne Rice (who was a fave of mine at the time) writing under the pen name “A. N. Roquelaure.” Except instead of vampires, she was playing around with fairy tale characters in [...]

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Is Sex Impossible to Capture on Paper?

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

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To quote Woody Allen, “Pizza is a lot like sex. When it’s good, it’s really good. When it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.” Writer John Banville (he won the Booker Prize for his awesomely beautiful and lyrical novel The Sea back in 2005) would agree. And he goes one step further, saying that because of [...]

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What We Talk About When We Talk About “Fifty Shades of Grey”

Thursday, April 19, 2012

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This may be sacrilege to say, but we can’t seem to muster any interest in reading the new, best-selling erotica novel that everyone’s talking about, Fifty Shades of Grey. After all, even the author admits that it’s not that good! For SM erotica, we’d rather stick with a classic like Story of O. Yeah, yeah, [...]

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A New Look for Lolita

Monday, March 12, 2012

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Lolita, such a great book. So deserving of a great cover. One blogger held a contest. Now it’s being turned into a book, with designs from both contest entrants and solicited pieces by well-known designers. Read the rest of this post on SUNfiltered  

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Our Friend’s Great New Sex Manual, “Great in Bed”

Friday, February 10, 2012

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The other night, we went to the book launch party for the new sex manual, “Great in Bed,” at the SoHo Babeland in NYC. It had been years since we’d seen our old friend and former coworker, Grant Stoddard, but he was his typical funny, charming self as he and his co-author – Kinsey sex researcher Debby Herbenick, PhD – [...]

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Top 10 Dirtier Books

Thursday, January 26, 2012

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photo via Flickr A few weeks back we jumped on the Twitter hashtag #lessambitiousbooks bandwagon, with a list of our Top 10 Less Ambitious Sex Books (The Joy of Dry Humping, Slight Hangup About Flying, etc.). This time around we figured we’d create our own damn hashtag — #dirtierbooks — so that nobody could accuse [...]

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The Slow But (Hopefully) Steady Erosion of Gender Stereotypes

Friday, January 13, 2012

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Stop the presses! A detergent commercial with just a normal dad doing laundry. For our book club, we’re reading the 2003 novel “We Need to Talk About Kevin” by Lionel Shriver.* I, Lo, knowing nothing about the book or its author, began reading and was amazed that a male author could create a female narrator that [...]

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