CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Sunny Rodgers, brand manager and sexual health educator for Pipedream Products, Jimmyjane and Sir Richards, presented a June 1 lecture about the intersection of pleasure products and sexual wellbeing at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. Rodgers, a...

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. – Racially motivated hate crimes rose more than 20 percent in nine U.S. metropolitan areas last year, according to Brian Levin, director of the nonpartisan Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. Yet in 2015,...

SPARKS, Nevada – Tantus’s new dildos, created for G-spot and P-spot (prostate) massage beginners, feature a “stepped” design with ridges that provides not only pleasure, but also education. The product works equally well in the hand or a harness. “We have specialized in dildos...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – XR Brands has expanded its Strap U line of affordable harnesses and dildos to encompass a wider array of accessories aimed at first-time peggers. With two new harness designs and several premium silicone dildo designs to choose from, Strap U offers...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – In order to provide safer toys for the widest variety of customers, Sportsheets has switched from latex to silicone for its range of 10-inch and 14-inch whips and ticklers in black, red and purple. A company statement indicated the change was made in...

MIAMI – Adult performer Vicky Vette and adult toy manufacturer Doc Johnson have released the sixth in a line of products featuring the popular MILF and internet entrepreneur. The Main Squeeze – Vicky Vette is one of seven signature hard-case strokers in the Main Squeeze line. The...

LOS ANGELES – Pride season is upon us. Retailers and consumers alike are looking for classy merchandise that speaks to the LGBTQ community’s sex-positive joie de vivre. A longtime sponsor and ally at Pride events throughout Southern California, Screaming O is helping stores get...

SAN FRANCISCO – The number-one priority for consumers when they contemplate purchasing a vibrator is not price, although affordability is important. Instead, consumers seek body-safe materials. The statistic was among several sex shop Good Vibrations discovered in a survey...

AMSTERDAM – Dutch sex toy designer and all-around bon vivant Rianne Swierstra has introduced three new designs into the Rianne S line of vibrators known for offering luxury appeal at wallet-friendly prices. Bella, Xena and Fembot pay homage to Swierstra’s life motto: “She...

LOS ANGELES – The Fleshlight male masturbators molded from the private parts of adult performer Anikka Albright have been making the rounds of pleasure-product reviews sites and receiving enthusiastic praise. In her sex toy roundup for Fleshbot, Holly Kingstown practically...