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• I'll Take Strange Human Behavior for $500, Alex.

  The answer: Tupperware, "marital aids," pizza cutters and tasers.           Read More... Posted May 27 2008, 11:00 AM by Adrienne Martini with | with no comments Filed under: arizona, sex toys, tupperware, tasers, in-home demos

• Parents Need Sex Toys, Too!

  Park Slope residents are all abuzz over news that a new Toys in Babeland, the popular Lower East Side sex store, will soon be opening in Brooklyn’s family-friendliest neighborhood. As a single gal living in the Slope, I was thrilled to hear the news. But what about the moms who are sitting in a neat, sweatered circle a foot away from me right now, bouncing their babies on their knees and sipping their lattes? Well, judging from a brief New York Post article, titled Sex-Toy Shop Has Bad Vibes in Park Slope, you’d think Park Slope parents would be better suited to Minnesota than New York. Fortunately, New York Magazine’s Daily Intelligencer blog quickly set the record straight.... Read More... Posted Mar 06 2008, 01:31 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: sex toys, park slope, sex and marriage, toys in babeland

• For V-day, Think O-day

  You had to know this was coming.  Um. No pun intended. It's Valentine's Day, that most romantic of all of the greeting card holidays, which means that every Tom, Dick (pun completely intended) and Harry has to trot out a love or sex or sexy love story. MSNBC is no stronger than any other news outlet.   Read More... Posted Feb 14 2008, 01:30 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with no comments Filed under: sex toys, al roker, Valentine Day

• Here's Why You Don't Have Sex

  Sexless marriage got you down? Don't feel alone -- apparently 40 million Americans are in a hands-off relationship, getting it on fewer than 10 times a year. Here's CNN's fix just in time for Valentine's Day. So quick! Take the TV out of the bedroom. Lay off the Viagra. Up those antidepressants. Forget about your thunder thighs.   Read More... Posted Feb 12 2008, 06:46 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: CNN, sex toys, sex-positive, sex as cure to stress, sex after kids, abstinence, sexless marriage

• What Does Your Day-Care Operator Do In Her Spare Time?

  Laura Palos-Martinez, an Oceanside, California day-care operator, is being investigated by Child Protection Services after she posted on her MySpace page, "I own my children's day care.  At night my job changes.  I am a sex consultant . . . I sell adult toys." Read More... Posted Jan 24 2008, 06:57 PM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: MySpace, sex toys, Palos-Martinez, day-care

• Hello Kitty for Your Hello Kitty and Other Undercover Sex Gifts

  I know many of you are struggling with a big dilemma this holiday: You'd like to get your partner a sexy sex toy gift, but you'd also like him or her to be able to open the present with the rest of the family. And you'd like to avoid the fiasco of a few years back, when you gave her that black corset and she opened the present in front of her parents and turned bright red. Look, I've got your back. Here's a couple sex gifts that will slide right under the radar of the family, and no one will know what a naughty holiday it is and stuff. And I should add that when I asked the other Derbys for ideas, I got much more personal information about them than I ever really wanted.  4. The Hello Kitty "shoulder massager". Read More... Posted Dec 04 2007, 05:33 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: harry potter, sex toys, Hello Kitty, sex after kids, holiday gifts, brookstone, igallop

• Don't Leave This in Your Nightstand Drawer

  Yes indeed, I lead a sheltered life. I had no idea these existed. Well, I guess I suspected but maybe just didn't think about the details. (How do they...? Oh, never mind. Eww, it has a...!) So if you've got a drawerful of adult pleasure toys, and you know exactly what I mean, where do you keep them?  I mean, how do you keep them from being discovered? And what do you say when they are? (because you know they will be...I already had to rescue my, uh, pleasure gadget from the inquiring hands of my three-year-old, who thankfully has speech challenges and therefore didn't ask about it, but I did have to find a different, and I have to say less convenient, place to keep it). And? Does the discovery end with a matter-of-fact statement or does it open up a whole blushing can of sex worms? (Oh, you KNOW what I mean here! Stop with the innuendos!) Read More... Posted Aug 02 2007, 11:27 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: kids, Sex, parents, sex toys, foot fetish

• A Very Special Valentine's Day

  Nothing like waiting until the last minute to buy a gift. Valentine’s Day, and I’m spending my lunch hour doing a little shopping for the wife. The name of the venerable establishment – Dr. Love’s – should tell you all you need to know about the merchandise found on the shelves. (I just went in there to buy a card. Honest.) Now, despite the impression you may have of me based on the posts I’ve written for this site, I am a grown man, a mature – ok, mostly mature – adult. I have a kid, who is biologically mine, so I have had sex before. Nevertheless, I was a bit…uncomfortable at the thought of walking into Ye Olde Dildo ‘N Lube Shoppe in broad daylight. The place is a few blocks away from my office, on a very busy street, in a neighborhood frequented by people I know. And I’d left my trenchcoat, fedora, and mirrored sunglasses at home. Read More... Posted Feb 14 2007, 06:40 PM by JasonAvant with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: sex toys, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day Gift Ideas, unusual Valentine's Day gifts

• San Francisco Ratcheting Down Toxic Toy Limits

  In what appears to be an unprecedented bow to the pressure of the Crappy Plastic Toy industry, the City By The Bay is proposing to drop a ban on the sale of toys and child care products containing phthalates, a group of chemical compounds used to make polyvinyl chloride (PVC) more flexible and commonly found in nail polish, caulk, and sex toys.  A 2004 study revealed that there was a "very strong link" between phthalates and allergies in children, and an even more disturbing small 2005 study suggested that there was a correlation between phthalates and small penis size on boys, as phthalates were thought to mimic estrogen.  Whoa.  Read More... Posted Jan 25 2007, 04:54 PM by Karen Murphy with | with no comments Filed under: toys, plastic toys, (long) John Holmes, sex toys, San Francisco, phthalates, PVC