May 22, 2013 - 
Gettin' Riled Up, Stuff I Love 
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Gettin' Riled Up, Stuff I Love 5 Comments Dildology: Sex Toy Safety Superheroes
My world is a happy place. In my world sex toys have never hurt me*, toy companies are honest, forthcoming and committed to making bad-ass, body-safe products and the sex shops are all Superheroes. It's good to be me.
Then, every once in a while I come crashing down out of Bedhead-world and into reality. I remember that most sex shops are mere mortals, read more
It's been a long time since I've ranted so, you know, brace yourselves.
Please stop saying "if you're not sure if you've had an orgasm, you haven't" Stop it. Just stop.
You're not helping. In fact you're being a smug douchebag. Also, you're very, very wrong.
With all the hype that surrounds orgasms, the vast differences in the way each 
While all of the shops on the Superhero Sex Shop Tour have things that make them special and unique, Toronto's Come As You Are is the one that is most notably different from the rest. How so? Founded is 1997, Come As You Are is worker owned and operated by Annanda DeSilva, Sarah Forbes-Roberts, Noah Kloeze, and Jack Lamon and is the only cooperatively 
Here's the deal: sex toys should make you feel many things and the Topco Ultrazone U Touch Side definitely did that for me.
A couple of the things it made me feel
Confusion
Frustration
Annoyance
Anger
Yeah. So...
Starting at the beginning: A week before I got this toy I was in the car with another reviewer who 
I've been a Planned Parenthood supporter for the entirety of my adult life. I've also had some form of insurance (on and off) for the entirety of my adult life. Until now. My first 72 hours with no insurance and no future insurance in sight taught me that Planned Parenthood is more important, to more people, than even I had realized. Here goes.
Funny 
Since 1972 NYC's The Pleasure Chest has been bringing sexy stuff to Greenwich Village. It has been featured on Sex and The City (yep, that’s where Charlotte bought “The Rabbit”) and name-checked by Queen. The Pleasure Chest is an institution.
Well, now I’ve just made it sound stodgy, which is so not the case! My notes for this visit include 
In April 2007 Baltimore, Maryland's Sugar opened and then stuff got awesome. Okay, so I'm over-simplifying a bit but this place is seriously cool. I could go on about the great stock (all the toys and products you'd want plus awesome body products, a ton of stuff that I only ever seen online before, the underwear from that amazing fake Victoria Secret 
So, last night I watched the Teen Mom porn and there was a lot of awful but I don't want to spend a ton of time talking about this so you should go check out this #FarrahDeen or this awesome post to get caught up. That said, there is something I want to touch on.
Farrah Abraham (Teen Mom) is has insisted several times that this video is not porn. 
“I think they throw you out of the sex-blogger union for admitting that.”
I was having a conversation with what may have been the most sex-positive human being I’ve ever encountered in the wild. Within an hour of meeting our discussion had touched on polyamory, circumcision, toys and abstinence-only education. We had just arrived at the 
Some of the best parts of the Superhero Sex Shop Tour were the surprises. When I set out on the tour I had never heard of SHAG but then when I was in NYC doing shop visits a staffer at another shop said "If you are looking for good sex-positive places like us you should check out SHAG" I asked around, did some research, got a couple of glowing recommendations