$25 SheVibe Gift Card Giveaway

August 23rd, 2012

Shevibe Gift Card

Most of the time when I host giveaways, I pick the item. This time around, I think I’ll let you do the choosing. That’s why I’m giving away a $25 gift card to SheVibe. You can pick anything you want–big or little, cheap or expensive. If you want to spend more, feel free. If you want to mull it over–it’s yours! Give it away as a gift or do something nice for yourself. No answer is wrong!

You don’t know what you want? That’s okay! SheVibe has a lot of stuff, guys. Here’s a list to get you started.

  • The Sasha harness. You guys, I’m in love. If you win this giveaway, get it for me, mmkay?
  • Fun Factory has a new dildo: the Sonic. It’s not blue, though. WTF?
  • I haven’t really read a lot about Lelo’s new Smartwands, but they’re worth a try.. maybe?
  • Or maybe you’re the type who wants to stick some glass up your butt. No judgment.
  • Halloween soon. Want to get a costume?

But, you guys, I’m not doing all the work for you. You need to help me out, okay? I mean, I shop sex toys all day and night– er, sort of — and it’s not so hard. So, if you want to win this SheVibe giveaway, leave a comment for each entry type below.

  • Tell me whether you’re going to keep this gift card or give it to someone awesome–Mandatory
  • Follow SheVibe on Twitter
  • Follow me — adriana_r— on Twitter  and tweet about the giveaway (once daily). For example: Adriana s giving away a $25 gift card to @SheVibe. Visit of Sex and Love to enter https://ofsexandlove.com/?p=4339 Ends 9/21
  • Leave a relevant/thoughtful comment on any other recent (three months or so) post. Leave a comment here with a link to your comment.
  • Stumble/like this post on StumbleUpon (you can find a handy Share/Save widget on every post page that allows you to submit this post to social bookmarking sites).
  • Blog about this giveaway, including a link directly to this post.
  • Subscribe to my feed via email. With my new FeedBurner URL, you can receive updates straight to your inbox. Comment with the email address you used on FeedBurner for this to count!

Note that new commentors who post links will go into my spam queue. Don’t worry, I’ll fish you out. I’ll delete all entries if you don’t complete the mandatory one.

Ends September 21. Contestants from USA, Canada, UK and AU are welcome to enter!  I will use a plug-in to randomly  generate a single winner. The winner will be contacted by me  via e-mail and SheVibe will mail the prize directly to the winner.

Good luck!

SheVibe

 

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Facts You Didn’t Know About Sex Toys [Infographic]

August 20th, 2012

Adam and Eve scandalous facts

Presented by Adam & Eve – Scandalous facts you didn’t know about sex toys

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Body and Soul Connection Vibrator

August 18th, 2012

Body & Soul Connection

Body & Soul Connection
$25 from Amazon

This vibe either looks like the eyeball guy from Aah! Real Monsters or a laser robot from the video game Portal. The latter is exactly why I requested to review it, even though another model in the line up looks slightly more turret-like. Unfortunately, all the reasons that would have caused me to pass up this sex toy are exactly the reasons I should have.

It took me less than thirty seconds to realize this, honestly. The vibrations, powered by 2AAA batteries are super buzzy. Although it’s easy enough to switch through them with the single button, there’s not much difference between any of the settings, except for the horrible whine that I could hear over music that I was listening to at the moment. This was common in Lelo’s old toys, but it bugs me whether a toy costs less than $50 or more than $100.

The vibrations are so buzzy that I wouldn’t be surprised if someone told me this was powered by watch batteries. In fact, my body simply stopped being able to feel the vibrations after a few seconds. I kid you not. While the rabbit-ear-like attachments are flexible and rounded in a way that surrounds the clitoris nicely, but the depth of the vibrations is simply too high-pitched to to anything. Honestly, I think I might have liked this a bit more, if the vibrations had been deeper. I’m not surprised that they weren’t. Some folks would suggest that this is “Great for newbies”, but I just can’t see how this vibe is all that good for anyone. Does a person exist who is really, honestly that sensitive?!

Still, while I don’t normally like fluttering rabbit ears, the arms on this guy are a little less flexible. They don’t flop back and forth, and they’re wider, so they really hug my clit in a way that could be effective. I usually like pressure, though, and this design really doesn’t offer that. However, I do like that the single push-button works well when you turn the toy around. There’s technically two ways you can hold this flat against your body/around your clit, and this lets you find the best position for the button.

Connection's annoying battery packThis toy is kind of like the less awesome version of the Form 2, which I already didn’t like and have recently swapped away. The plastic base is round, and this toy is bigger so it’s easier for me to hold. However, you have to twist the bottom directly off from the top to insert the (useless) batteries. The whole thing is awkward, and it uses that quarter-twist style that I always have trouble lining up. Plus, the batteries sit in there vertically, without much support. They fall out pretty easily. Obnoxious, dudes.

At least Jimmyjane got the quality down. The Connection has soft silicone up top and shiny plastic on the bottom, and it’s not seamless in the least. In fact, there’s a visible line between the two portions of the toy, and it looks like a gout line full of gunk. Upon closer inspection, it’s not filled with gunk–thank God!–it’s just that the cut of the plastic is super sloppy. This toy feels low-quality now matter how you cut it.

Given the vibrations and the poor quality, I’m surprised by the MSRP. Luckily, sellers on Amazon offer this for less than half. I don’t know if I’d even spend $25 on this, but that’s a smaller hit to your wallet, if you’re convinced this will work for you.

Am I surprised though? Eh, not really. I almost always need something that uses AAs. The shape here does have some redeeming qualities, but it can’t overshadow all the things that bother me about the Body & Soul Connection.

CEN Sexpert

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Sex Toy Society – Edition 12

August 17th, 2012

Sex Toy Society Review Directory

Welcome to Edition 12 of the Sex Toy Society round-up of all the reviews written by Society authors over the past week.

Do you want to be included in next weeks edition? All you need to do is visit this page and submit your latest reviews and photographs before 11:59pm BST on Thursday 23rd August 2012. Our authors of the week are selected by the number of reviews published, comments posted and photographs added to the Society so get adding!

You can also find us on Twitter for all the latest news on the society.

Authors of the week

Vibrators

Dildos

Sex Toys for Couples

Bondage

Other

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You Guys, I’m Kind of Shallow

August 16th, 2012

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, but I haven’t. It’s not that it’s all that difficult to admit, I just don’t know what the point of it is. Nothing will change, you’ll just know, but here goes.

If we were to rate all people on an attractiveness scale of one to ten, they would span the range. Most people would not be a ten. I think many people would be in the range of four to six. Some people are especially unattractive, while others are unbelievably attractive. However, as any grocery store checkout rack can show you, even someone who we think of stunning looks far less perfect on a bad day, without makeup, pre-Photoshop, et cetera. Tabloids give us a brief glimpse into the humanity of our idols.

So, when I rate people from one to ten, I usually reserve ten. My scale actually ends at nine. Like rating a vibrator, only a plug-in massager will have a “Vroom” of five. If that. So, somehow, we’ve rated all the people in the world on the scale, and you and I agree. It’s unlikely, but that’s our situation.

In this situation I will, undoubtedly, only find people who fall upwards of five attractive. In reality, I really only like a seven through nine. I naturally find only fairly attractive people to be attractive at all. I have a hard time with people of average attraction, where I would categorize myself on any given day–although, I’ve been known to reach eight a time or two.

So there’s my problem. Most people are average, but I’m not attracted to average. On a daily basis, I find few people good looking. It’s the same when I’m browsing OkCupid. According to my horoscope, it’s a Gemini thing. I don’t place too much significance on those sorts of things, but hey, maybe there’s something to it. Maybe not. Either way, I feel as though I am naturally attracted to a small selection of people, and I wish my tastes were more varied, but I don’t know how to change that.

I try not to write people off because of their looks, and it’s not as though I only associate with super attractive people, but I do note. I feel like I can’t help it, and I find it so incredibly difficult to even consider being more than friends with someone who is a four, a five.

I know this is limiting my pool of potential partners incredibly. I know that attraction is important, but I also know that it’s important to remember what’s on the inside, but focusing on personality is so difficult when I’m not attracted to a person who I’ve met for a first date.

The problem, however, isn’t just that. The problem is that, as a somewhat-attractive but a-little-plump woman, I feel like my sights are set on a demographic that wouldn’t naturally be attracted to me, anyway. If the world was full of above-average attractive people, I wouldn’t still have my pick of the litter, because they wouldn’t pick me right back.

This bothers me. I sometimes want to force myself to like the type of person who is

  1. a nice guy who is of average attractiveness
  2. someone who is more similar to my level of attraction, someone of whom I am deserving based on looks

So, I guess, I do the same thing to myself, which probably doesn’t help the situation. So, dear readers, am I stupidly shallow? Can this tigress change her stripes? Should I ignore my natural urges and date a bunch of nice guys to whom I’m not attracted to begin with? Or do I just keep searching in hopes that some Clark Kent-type will also want me?

 

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And the winner is…

August 14th, 2012

Congratulations to VJ M. Your email is on its way, and your prize will soon follow!

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Bondage Boutique Faux Tiger Fur Spanking Paddle

August 10th, 2012

Faux Tiger Fur Spanking Paddle

Faux Tiger Fur Spanking Paddle

Lovehoney has since discontinued the Tiger Fur Paddle, but they still have other items available under their Bondage Boutique line, including some plan furry ones.

I’m into the tiger things lately. Remember those cuffs? Well, this paddle is better. Ultimately, they were pretty cheap, and not stripey in the right way. It’s probably a complaint you don’t often hear. You’re welcome.

The only real negative I can state is that it smells. Out of the package, there was an overwhelming fake leather smell. You’ve smelled it before, I’m sure, and it might not even bother you. I just don’t love it.

Otherwise, it’s on to the pros. This is actually smaller than expect. The span of the fingers on my tiny hands is bigger than the paddle, but that’s not a horrible thing. For one, you can control is easily. It’s also good on petite behinds.

I was impressed with the plushness of the fur. The stripes are great–not exactly realistic but appealing to my eye. To my hands, this fur is way plush. Sticks up and over and offers a lot of padding. It’s much more plush, for example, than this fur slapper I reviewed a while back. When you smack someone’s ass with this, it’s soft and thuddy. The impact spreads out, rather than landing in one place.

Even if I give it my all, I can’t do much damage with that side; although, you can flip it over and use the fake leather side. Still, the paddle is just a little bit flexible, so I find that this lessens the impact. It doesn’t impede performance necessarily, but it makes this paddle on the lighter side of bondage. On LoveHoney, the review system asks you to rate kinkiness. I guess I chose about 3.5 because, to be honest, it doesn’t seem that kinky to me.

The handle is bordered in metal rivets to add to its hardcore appearance, but this tiger is really a kitten. Technically, you could use the handle as a paddle to get more stimulation, and it would be more acute than using the furred paddle.

At the end of a handle is a leather strap, which helps you keep your grip while using the toy and makes it easy to store. I’d wipe it down with a damp cloth if you have any cleaning to do.

Although I haven’t had a chance to really use this, it seems like a well-made toy at a decent price. It delivers both in looks and feel, and it’s non-intimidating if you’re just getting into impact play. I’m definitely interested to see what the rest of the Bondage Boutique has in store!

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