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The Sex Blog Of Record
ErosBlog posts containing "sex toys"
July 20th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
The SEXO loverealdolls website proclaims the company is a China factory manufacturer of sex dolls founded in 2009 as a “driving force” in sex dolls, with extraordinary design, excellent quality, considerate service, and favorable price.
Their extensive online catalog contains more than ninety models of sexy dolls, in wide-ranging categories that include the unusual and unexpected. In addition to a bunch of different body sizes, shapes, and racial “styles”, one may order elf-women dolls, pregnant dolls, and anime dolls (although I didn’t see any pregnant elf-women, or anime elves. Mix-and-match only goes so far!) And all that’s before customization options kick in: three skin colors, three eye colors, four nail colors, pubic hair options, and a decision about hardware in the feet that affects whether the dolls can be posed in standing postures. It looks to me as if foot fetishists would want to eschew the standing ability in favor of having feet that are better to play with, but I am just your humble scribe, I don’t make these decisions. Anyway, all this adult sexy-doll fun starts on the SEXO front page:
Unlike the fairly anodyne and generic sex dolls I’ve seen from other manufacturers, SEXO seems to go out of their way to make toys for men with some fairly specific fetishes around body type, like sex dolls with a big ass and huge breasts. And although I would not call this particular doll either fat or chubby, the manufacturer does:
Before anybody gets all up in my comments or my Twitter mentions about using words like fat or chubby in this context, I think a few preemptive words are in order about the whole sex-doll-ordering enterprise. Love it or hate it, it’s a fundamentally objectifying project. Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with is an object! Before you can order a flexible playmate from across the sea, you must cheerfully enter the vale of objectification; that’s no journey on which to be carrying baggage about it. You’ll want to keep that in mind; we’re about to discuss sex doll skin colors as labeled in a Chinese factory and then translated to English.
When it comes to translating words across both languages and cultures there is probably nothing harder to get “right” (if “right” even exists) than terms for skin tones. The sex doll above is shown in the middle shade offered by SEXO, the shade they call “tan.” Their lighter shade is something I would consider a blindingly-Nordic pale white, which they refer to variously as “skin” or “flesh” at different places on the website. This doll is offered that way, and also (along with most or all doll models) in a much darker-skinned “black” which is no blacker than “black” skin usually is.
I think my very favorite thing about the SEXO business philosophy is the sex-positive motto expressed on their website header: “Less stress, more pleasure.” I’m old enough to remember the vicious stigma that once permeated the entire sex toy industry, and to see that it’s been rather slower to ease and dissipate in the sex doll category than elsewhere. Sex dolls, like any other sex toys, are all about pleasure, and it’s a pleasure to see a manufacturer recognize that.
June 17th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
I used to have a favorite online sex toy store, and one of the reasons it was my favorite was that they had a proactive affiliate manager who would send me stuff. But she doesn’t work there any more, and in the couple of years since she left, I’ve clearly fallen out of touch with developments in the dick-oriented sex toys world. In fact, the briefest of looks at the front page of MensToysHub.com makes it more than plain that there has been an enormous growth (heh) in the selection and assortment of toys designed for penis pleasure. Moreover, these toys have a lot more creativity and technology designed into them than last time I looked, too.
Let me be honest right up front: on that page there is a bit of sales copy some ErosBlog readers may find troubling. If, like me, you are somewhat behind the curve about developments in the penis-pleasuring category of toys, you’ll find plenty to interest you. But the sex toy discussions also include jokey comparisons that are disrespectful of women and sex workers. It seems to be a marketing strategy; perhaps one day I’ll get really drunk and do a post about the implications of that.
Moving rapidly along: but ooh, the sex toys!
The nineteen toys on the front page at MensToysHub are a varied bunch, but I was struck by how many of them have some sort of wireless connectivity (four or five) and/or integration with various combinations of interactive, online, virtual reality (VR), and/or point-of-view (POV) porn. (Two in particular: the Fleshlight Launch and the Kiiroo Onyx.) There are at least three “hands-free” masturbators; these upgrade that classic “pocket pussy” concept with mechanical systems that do the work for you. There are three or four more that, while not hands-free, combine vibrator technology (and, sometimes, remote communications for input from a partner who is across the room or on the other side of the country) with the traditional stimulus of the fleshlike hole for inserting your penis into.
Even in the “traditional” category of unpowered male masturbaters with no wires, motors, batteries, vibrations, or Bluetooth communications chips, the seven toys on the list are remarkably diverse and (to my old-fashioned eye at least) surprisingly modern. The most old-fashioned fleshy pocket on the list (one of the several Fleshlights, take your pick) would have been a category leader top-of-market toy last time I was seriously paying attention to this kind of toys; the only toy that resembles the downmarket jelly “pocket pussies” back then now looks like something that came out of an alien growth tank that makes brightly-colored bioengineered hand grenades.
Really, gentlemen, we’ve come a long way when it comes to new ways to spend money on ways to come!
May 9th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
Just now the internet is going through another spasm of sex-negative Nervous Nellies in a freakout about an impending wave of “sex robot” products — life-like silicone sex dolls that increasingly will be equipped with basic interactive functionalities. Why the freakout? As near as I can tell, the women (and, yes, it is mostly women) doing the freaking are the same ones who hate porn and despise sex workers and get angry when “their” men masturbate. Lots of women enjoy using their power to say “yes” and “no” to sex as a lever to influence the behavior of the men in their lives; and some few of these women will protest anything that offers men sexual pleasures that are alternative to their own dubious charms. Objections to silicone sex dolls or to flesh-and-blood sex workers or to internet porn are all part of the same phenomenon: a fear that men who have lots of options for sexual gratification won’t be as easy to lead around by their presumed-desperate dicks.
As a man, therefore, I waste very little time on the pearls-clutching internet think-pieces fretting endlessly about how ever-improving sex dolls will impact future sexual politics. But I do admit to a fascination with the underlying technologies. In my lifetime sex dolls have progressed enormously, from cheap vinyl inflatables all the way to top-end life-sized artwork-quality fully-articulated human statues of surpassing loveliness, made of silicone or TPE or a bewildering array of proprietary mixtures and materials. In truth, I had not realized the sheer variety of models, styles, and sizes that were available, until the people at OVDoll asked me to look at their enormous selection of realistic sex dolls:
Ovdoll has a detailed website with oh-so-many dolls to choose from. Headquartered in Japan with a factory in GuangDong (Canton) China and a sales office in the US, they export dolls to more than 100 countries and they tout their 8+ years of exporting experience. There’s a photo of a scene from their factory that you would be pardoned for thinking came straight out of a science fiction movie:
What’s more, if the OVDoll ready selection isn’t sufficient for you, it’s possible to custom-order a doll in nine different body sizes, five breast sizes, four skin colors, and three eye colors, while choosing from more than 200 different available heads with diverse facial features, and then selecting from an assorting of wigs and pubic hair stylings. Plus there’s even an available selection of body tattoos! That’s a lot of customer choice in the selection of your love doll’s appearance, and most of these choices are also available in varying quantities when ordering one of the stock, not-quite-so-custom dolls in their web catalog.
Breathless internet think-piece writers notwithstanding, I don’t believe the current generation of sex dolls or even the next generation of “sex robots” with AI-driven speech routines and advanced animatronics are going to replace live human women in the sexual affections of most men. At the end of the day, we’re talking about fancy luxurious sex toys. But sex toys, as someone recently wrote in my Twitter feed, are about joy. And if you’re against joy, you’re absolutely on the wrong side.
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November 25th, 2016 -- by Bacchus
Right now there are ten thousand sex toy bloggers lighting up their blogs and your social media feeds with Black Friday sales, special offers, and coupon codes for individual sex toy deals. I can’t compete with that cacophony, and what’s more I don’t want to compete with it. Instead, I want to offer you a “smart shopper” tip that I’m not seeing elsewhere.
My favorite sex toy outlets have Black Friday through Cyber Monday sales every year, with a long list of nicely-discounted items. So far, so ho-hum — although there are always a couple of very tempting items. This year it’s an adjustable metal spreader bar in non-threatening pink (LOL) and some stylin’ screw-type nipple clamps. But no: what makes these sales actually special is when they include something like a fifteen percent discount-code-at-checkout, which applies to non-sale items as well as to sale items.
The sex toy shopping tip I promised hangs on that otherwise-rare discount code. My advice is to shop the code, not the sales. Ignore the sale items and go shopping for the expensive sex toys that never get discounted anywhere. I would start with top-drawer name-brand designer vibrators and the metal and art glass dildos and plugs. (Where else will you save almost 45 bucks off the price of an Njoy Eleven?) Consider the large silicone toys, also; they rarely get much discount love, because the silicone in them costs so much. And finally, of course, if you were ever dreaming of dungeon furniture, expensive e-stim gear, or a fucking machine, these discount codes are your new best friend.
Shop the discount. Use it wisely, on expensive items that don’t usually see discounts. That’s my Black Friday sex toy shopping tip for you. Enjoy!
September 28th, 2016 -- by Bacchus
In a post at Lady Laid Bare where Jillian Boyd is exploring her enjoyment of wet slippery lubed and oiled skin, there’s a quick reference to a cams performer on Chaturbate who is having a good night:
Reader, I must confess — I am seriously into the sight of glistening skin.
It’s why I nearly jizzed myself with happiness when I saw the links to those videos. I wasn’t even aware there was porn which catered so specifically to this turn-on — but there it was, a glimpse of a whole website dedicated to lube drizzling on tits and abs, to sticky and wet fucks and the glee of making a great big mess with personal lubricant.
Now, as we’re both still in the process of unpacking from our move, I haven’t the faintest idea where our actual stash of lube is, despite me clearly remembering packing it. For that matter, I’m also not entirely sure where the rest of our towels are. But what we did have to hand, right on top of the chest of drawers next to my side of the bed, was a bottle of Body Shop lavender massage oil. Which would not only do the job quite nicely, but would also make less of a mess. It would do. For now. Besides, I was already soaking wet from watching our cam girl of choice on Chaturbate — she was naked, spread out and at the mercy of an OhMiBod vibrator inside her, which pinged every time she got tipped. Judging from the wall of yellow in the chat box, the constant beeping sound of tipping and the fact that she was pretty much constantly grinding and moaning, she was having a pretty goddamn good night of it.
I am fascinated by this field observation of a pleasure loop in which the act of getting paid is quite literally a sexual stimulus. There is, to be sure, a cynical perspective from which to consider the account, one in which the cam girl is cast rigorously as a “performer” so that her performance of sexual response and pleasure can be denigrated as somehow insincere (because money). But it seems to me that human sexuality is more complex than that. I don’t have any trouble at all believing that the performer here was experiencing genuine sexual pleasure, mediated by a competent vibrator and reinforced by the continuous influx of “sincere flattery” — which is to say, money. Getting paid is pleasurable, and so is a decent vibration delivered with an unpredictable pattern. Even if this performer set out to deliver a show in which she performed pleasure without intending or expecting to experience it, I’m not entirely convinced that she would or could have been successful at doing so. If you mix two different pleasures often and thoroughly enough, they become associated with one another. That’s one way fetishes are built.
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August 22nd, 2016 -- by Bacchus
In the age of Amazon a sex toy store is rarely anyone’s first thought when dirty books — porn magazines, coffee table fetish art books, sexual how-to manuals — come to mind. But if like me you are conflicted about buying your sex books on Amazon — because they’ll sell you almost anything but they’re utter shit to adult authors and to any Amazon affiliate who has the temerity to put an Amazon link on a dirty web page — then it makes sense to do your adult book business at the same adult-friendly places you buy your kinky sex toys.
Currently on my mental wishlist, because I am an eternal sucker for a big thick book of glossy fetish photos: Latex Fashion Photography from Goliath.
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December 13th, 2015 -- by Bacchus
My apologies; so much has been going on with me that I have nearly let the first half of December get away without reminding y’all of the regular seasonal sex toy sales that happen this time of year. Worse yet, I have not had plenty of time to lovingly peruse the sales and share with you my favorite sale items (which usually means “most heavily discounted” items, since I am a cheapskate from way back). No detailed ErosBlog Guide To The Sexmas Sale this year, sorry! But I did notice with interest that that the Experimental Bondage Kit (a great non-threatening way to start bringing bondage gear into the house) is not only discounted, but available in festive Christmas red. Can you say “stocking suffer”, boys and girls? I knew you could!
If for some reason you can’t say “stocking stuffer”, now is the time to practice. Just say it over and over until it starts to sound dirty. (That’s when you’ll know you’re saying it right!)
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