Sex Toy Pricing

Okay, so my readers like to buy sex toys, but they want to know where to get the cheapest ones.

Well, here's your answer! I spent this morning perusing my favorite sex toy websites, comparing prices on the two most popular sex toys ever: The Hitachi Magic Wand and the We Vibe. The Hitachi has been around forever and is the quintessential vibrator for women. The We Vibe, on the other hand, is new and immensely popular. It provides women with both internal and external stimulation, and can be worn during sex. Wow!

Needless to say, I don't own either of these, but I'm aching to.

Here are how the prices break down on these two vibrators:

Good Vibrations:

1. Hitachi Wand: $52
2. We Vibe: $130

Babeland:

1. Hitachi Wand: $54
2. We Vibe: $130

Eden's Fantasy:

1. Hitachi Wand: $45.99
2. We Vibe:$130

My Pleasure:

1. Hitachi: $74.95
2. We Vibe: not available

Sensual Sutra:

1. Hitachi: $64.95
2. We Vibe: not available, but the We Vibe II is sold for $149.99, on sale now for $79.99

Healthy and Active:

1. Hitachi Wand: $39.95
2. We Vibe: Regular $129.99, on sale now for $73.95

Amazon.com:

1. Hitachi Wand: Normally $60, on sale now for $39.95
2. We Vibe: Normally $130, on sale now for $75.94

Holiday Savings for Online Sex Toys

It's the holiday season, and as Thanksgiving comes and goes, the Christmas season and subsequent shopping spree will begin.



Did you know that sex toys are becoming one of the most popular gifts this year? It's true! Right around the time the economy started to fall, lipstick and sex toy sales went way up---people started buying small, economical gifts for themselves and their loved ones that they could enjoy without burning a hole in their pocket. And while sex toys are usually more expensive than lipstick, these gifts can help you create a date night where you and your loved one stay in to celebrate the holidays and go easy on your wallet.



I've been checking out sex toy and fetish websites, scouring the web for good holiday deals for my readers. Here's what I've found.



As always, I started with Babeland and Good Vibrations, because these are two stores I've worked with a lot in the past and I true. I like how both these stores are women-friendly, sex-positive stores that focus on quality products and sex education, not sleazy pornographic pictures and sky-high prices. These stores are friendly to all types: straight or gay, Christian or not, woman or man. They also have a great selection of all sorts of lubes and sex toys, although their BDSM and bondage section is pretty small, and both stores have good customer service and discreet shipping every time I use them.



Once I'd checked out the holiday deals at those stores, I checked some other stores I've used. Some were having holiday sales; some weren't. I also found some new sites that are offering holiday deals or have a particularly low price for some top-selling toys I think my readers might be interested in, such as the Hitachi Wand (the most popular sex toy ever, as far as I can tell) or the We Vibe, a new luxury toy meant to be worn during intercourse (I want it! I want it! I want it!).



Here's what I found. None of these stores has asked me to do this and I'm not getting any sort of compensation for these reviews; this is all just information I found that I wanted to share with my readers as the holidays begin.

• Babeland is having several holiday specials. Their Black Friday Extravaganza is going on from now til 11/30, and you get a free vibrator + free shipping if you buy anything over $70. From now til Christmas, you can have free shipping on any orders of $50 or more (that's one good sex toy, so it's worth it), and if you own a blog you can also write a short post about one of their Objects of Desire that you want for Christmas (or any other holiday!) and enter a drawing. The winner will be picked on Christmas day and will receive $1,000 worth of sex toys from the store, so if you like sex toys, you might as well enter and test your luck.


• Good Vibrations isn't having any holiday specials (yet) that I've found, but they do offer a $5-0ff coupon if you sign up for the email newsletters. This store also has a wider selection of BDSM, fetish, and bondage toys than Babeland, including several good books and some toys not only intended for beginners.


• Eden's Fantasy is having holiday sales, including free shipping on orders over $59. They're also offering 35% off California Exotic Rabbits and 50% off on some selected toys. For cute stocking stuffers, they also have some cheap vibes and toys for under $10 on their Sale page. This store passed the important "Anal Lube Test" (meaning, like Babeland and Good Vibes, they don't sell desensitizing anal lubricants, which are dangerous for customers and indicate a store cares more about making a buck than customer safety), and Eden's Fantasy also has a decent bondage and fetish collection for sale.


• I was really pleased to discover the online store My Pleasure. This store's webpage is neat, tidy, and classy. There are no pornographic images and customers can feel good about purchasing there. My Pleasure has an education section with loads of information about sex, toys, lubricants, and more; they also pass the Anal Lube Test. They're also having a holiday sale on several vibrators, dildos, costumes, lingerie, and other items. During the week of Thanksgiving, you can get 10% off all purchases, 15% off purchases of $75 or more, and 20% off purchases of $125 or more.


• Xtreme Restraints is, in my opinion, not a classy, customer-friendly sex store. I really hate the online stores that show pornographic ads and seem to think sex is a dirty secret to make money on rather than a special bonding experience between two adults. Not surprisingly, they failed the Anal Lube Test. However, I felt this store was worth mentioning because it offers a wide array of BDSM toys and gear for everyone from total beginners to Masters with years of experience. Whether you want medical gear, fetish wear, costumes, head gear, chastity devices, enema supplies, mouth gags, or serious bondage equipment, this store offers it. Xtreme Restraints is also having a holiday sale and is offering free shipping on orders more than $69.


• Sensual Sutra is another site I found that passed the Anal Lube Test and is classy and positive about sexuality. On the other hand, you can tell a lot about a store by their lubricant section, and I noticed this store didn't have a lot of quality lube (except the standards Eros and Astroglide that you find everywhere) but had a lot of flavored and sugary lubes that seemed more fit for a teenager's chapstick flavors than an adult's lubricant. This store has a few restraint items (mostly different types of handcuffs) and no big holiday product sales that I could find, although they are offering free shipping on orders more than $89.

While perusing these sites, I never found one that sold my favorite vibrator of all time, the Rabbit G, sold by Adult Toy Shoppe (that store, unfortunately, has not posted any holiday sales). If you can't decide what toy to get your loved one, I highly, highly recommend this one. Basically, it's fantastic--so fantastic I broke mine. (Oops.) Still, I use it even broken, and I long for the day I can afford a new one. This baby might be expensive, but it's well worth it--I've tried a plethora of dildos and vibrators in my time, and even other rabbit vibes, but nothing else even comes close.

Anyway, as Thanksgiving draws near, have a happy and safe holiday and start thinking about what to buy for Christmas gifts! :)

Potty Play

Something my Dom and I have been talking a lot about lately is Potty Play.

This is, of course, my own term for it. You can find lots of sexual kinks that have to do with going to the bathroom (or the opposite--making someone hold it). There are lots of names for these kinks: golden showers, enemas, enema torture, scat, watersports, human toilet... I'm sure there are more.

First, what are these things?

(These definitions are mine and very unofficial!)

• golden showers: urinating on someone
• enemas: putting water or a liquid solution in the anus and bowels, resulting in a "cleansing" of the colon and solid waste removal
• enema torture: giving someone an enema and making them hold their bowel movement until they go crazy
• forced holding: making someone hold it to show your control over them
• diapers: having someone wear a diaper and/or dirty the diaper in public or during sex play
• scat: any sort of play with poop--pooping on someone, pooping during sex, etc.
• watersports: any play that involves urination
• human toilet: using a submissive or slave as your toilet; i.e. they drink your urine/eat your feces, or you use your tongue as toilet paper.

Second, are they dangerous?

Well, most kinks can be dangerous, and it just depends on how far you take it. For instance, eating someone else's feces, yes, can be dangerous. Water sports and scat can both be safe if you keep the contact to your skin and no mucus membranes. If you touch feces to mucus membranes (nose, eyes, mouth, vagina, penis, anus) the bacteria can get inside your body and make you very sick, but if you keep it to your skin and wash well afterward, it's safer.

Urine is generally safer to ingest than feces. This is because urine is sterile when it first leaves the body (unless your partner has some kind of kidney or urinary tract infection); it is only when urine touches the air that bacteria start to thrive. Of course, urine is body waste, and ingesting it could mess up your body's salt and chemical levels, but a little bit probably won't kill you. The more diluted the urine is (the more hydrated your partner is), the less dangerous it is.

Ingesting feces, on the other hand, can be dangerous. Bacteria that live in your intestines and bowels are not meant to be introduced to your stomach. Ingesting poop is a good way to transfer Hepatitis. Generally, if you want to try scat play, it's safer to try it with a partner you've known for a long time and who has no STDs. Also, if you live with someone your internal bacteria tend to grow more similar. This doesn't mean it's safe to ingest anyone's poop--even your own--but it does make it safer.

Enemas can be very safe, especially if you're using sterile water or a medically approved enema solution. There are others, however, that aren't good for your body and can irritate your colon and anus. I've heard of people who used alcohol or chili peppers to cause their partners pain, but this can actually irritate and cause tears in your colon's interior lining. Not a good idea!

Last, if I find this kind of stuff kinky or fun, what kind of stuff can I try?

Well, there's tons of gross-and-kinky stuff out there. I'm a little grossed out by body functions myself, so I can't give you any personal recommendations (yet?), but there are some websites that will give you ideas, list the potential dangers, and show you how to keep safe. They include:

• Pigmedia: Dangers of Scat
• Pigmedia: Dangers of Watersports
• Pigmedia: Enemas
• Wiki: Watersports
• BEST Slave Training: Enemas
• Informed Consent: Human Toilets

Review: Truth or Dare Game

"Truth or Dare" is the new game my Dom and I got from Good Vibrations. Right now, the store is having a sweet 25%-off sale their entire site! I'd go over and check it out, if not for the Truth or Dare game, then for one of their rabbit vibrators, which are my very, very fave! :)

It took me a while to write a blog about this game because, well, there are so many cards to play with. My Dom and I tried it out, but we only got through about a quarter of the cards. So we waited a bit and then tried it out again... and then again. In my opinion, this is a very good thing, because you can have fun with this game over and over again without running into the same cards. A definite plus!

I loved the cute little box the game came in; it was elegant and sweet all at the same time. The cards are divided into two piles: truth and dare. In truth (ha! get it?), we had a lot more fun with the "truth" cards. In fact, I'd recommend buying this game simply for the fun, imaginative questions that will get you and your partner talking and laughing and getting to know each other's secret desires and funniest moments, whether you've been together for a month or forty years.

I'm big on bonding, so I loved the questions. Questions like, How much money would it take to get you to strip in public? and What were your earliest fantasies and what was so sexy about them? really got us talking. We loved giggling over the questions and sharing together. Rather than just answering the questions, we ended up talking and laughing about them for several minutes before moving on to the next one. Even things we had already talked about, it was fun--and sexy--to relive our best moments or hottest fantasies. And the cards suggested several fun questions we'd never even dreamed of! This game is great if only to get you and your honey communicating more and better---which is always a good thing for a relationship and a good sex life!

As for the "dare" cards, I wasn't so sold on those. Some of them were sexy and cute, but some were just a bit weird: for example, my Dom got one that said, Pretend you're at the gym and make up a sexy workout routine for your partner to watch. Hmmm.... awkward. I mean, it might turn him on to watch me stretch and bend, but to have a grown man do it--- not so much. (Not for me, anyway.) Now, if you want to get into some light BDSM, these cards will help you do it: One of you gets to be the Master for 5 minutes, and the other one must obey is a light, fun way to introduce your partner to some light bondage and submission, but if you're already into heavier aspects of BDSM, these cards aren't really going to stretch your limits.

In the end, Truth or Dare is a fun game for couples to play, laugh, and have some sweet, sexy times together. Good Vibrations has it on sale now for just $12.71 (normally $16.95) and it's definitely worth that just for the good laughs and sexy ambience the game provides.

And please take advantage of the store's three-day 25% off sale--it's worth it!