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By Emily Davies (for the Washington Post, Posted with Permission) Experts and friend groups alike are fawning over “Hot Vax Summer,” or what they expect to be a months-long party full of first dates, packed bars and other previously forbidden activities made possible by mass vaccinations. That anticipation has driven up contraception sales, sent liquor sales through the roof and flushed salons with cash as people clamor to be “vaxxed and waxed.” The result is an economic engine for some of the businesses most damaged by the coronavirus pandemic, which, after a year of isolation, are now flourishing thanks to...

By Jenny's Dating Advice (Posted with Permission) For some reason everyone thinks that sex toys are strictly female oriented products. In fact, whenever I have  conversations with my friends about sex toys, most of them think that  only women use them to get themselves off, and honestly, nothing could  be further from the truth because there are just as many sex toys for  men, both gay & straight, as there are for women, and there’s also a  wide variety of sex toys for both gay & straight couples to use  together as well.   Continue reading

Intimacy in the time of coronavirus: Home bound couples find love as sale of condoms go up   Some have speculated that couples confined to their homes, away from the office, bars and other such distractions, in these anxious times, may lead to a “coronavirus boom” in December 2020. There is evidence that this is no longer mere speculation.   Social distancing has magnified close cohabitation, couples are rediscovering each other as cities and towns across the country go into lockdown. With this proliferation of intimacy, pharmacies as well as e-commerce sites are reporting rising sales of condoms and contraceptive...

May is National Masturbation Month. The annual celebration began in 1995 in response to the forced resignation of U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders in December 1994. After a speech at the UN World AIDS Day, Elders responded to an attendee’s question about masturbation’s potential for discouraging early sexual activity. She replied, “I think it is something that is part of human sexuality and a part of something that perhaps should be taught."   Soon after, Elders’ career as the first black female Surgeon General ended. The owners of Good Vibrations, an adult shop in San Francisco, were outraged. They set...

Genderism: Unhealthy prejudice   Redesigning Bite the Fruit’s online store, it became clear that when it came to categorizing our products, the usual system of classification, “For Him” and “For Her,” is no longer viable. Gender is hardly binary. And sex toys are functionally non-gender specific.   The adult industry, just as other industries, is plagued by genderism. The patriarchal attitudes, holdovers from when men controlled all the money while women got very little of it, still influence and shape the business. The issue is often overlooked or completely ignored with negative effect.   Genderism, or gender binarism, is the...