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USING CORRECTLY SIZED CONDOMS

If every penis measured 53mm, the ‘size matters’ debate wouldn’t exist. Great condoms are like shoes, they come in a range of sizes, styles and fits. Taking the time to find the right one(s) for you, will make all the difference in your pleasure practice.


BENDABLE DILDOS

Multiple partners? Tilted uterus? Out with old, slipping strap-ons and rigid dildos, we say! Strap-on play should be comfortable. Now, some of our favourite dildos can bend to fit play style, so that we have the choice and comfort to try different positions. Revolutionary. After all, not everyone fucks on a 90 degree angle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COLOUR-CODED CHARGING CORDS

Pink vibe. Pink cord. It’s the little things – like great design – that help make our pleasure practice that much more pleasurable! Take the Fun Factory Mea for example, this suction toy is beautifully considered, from the stimulator itself to all of its accessories. It even comes with a clever charging case and a leather strap to keep all of your charging cables together. 


GLIMMERS

Those everyday things that bring you the most joy. See above.


PORN LITERACY

Without teaching critical thinking concerning sex, sensuality and adult material, pornography will continue to reinforce harmful and outdated ideas and stereotypes about sex. Better, age-appropriate sex education in schools, please!


CREATURE COCKS

Are they the artful, non-phallic dildos that we’ve been craving? Or more of the giant, hideous cocks that have been endlessly foisted upon us by the patriarchs of the sex toy industry? Whether they're our 'yuck' or our 'yum', creature-inspired cocks featured in our Shop of Horrors Halloween window in 2023 and we loved them.
 

OUTS

THE DOG EATING YOUR VIBRATOR

We hear it all the time. Up there with leaving your vibrator in a hotel room. The polar opposite of a ‘glimmer’.


TOYS CONTAINING TOXINS

Dog toys are regulated, but sex toys? Nope. Vaginas and butts clearly don’t matter that much to the TGA. (King Cocks, anyone?)  Beware of pleasure toys containing unusual suspects.


LUBE THAT BURNS

It feels like every pleasure seeker and their dog created a lubricant during the peak of the pandemic. Unfortunately, most of them are rubbish and some can even make you more susceptible to STIs. Before you go waving the scare-tactics stick, check out our blog on lubricant osmolality, and the science of finding lube that’s actually made for your personal pH and skin-type, thanks to safe ingredients.


WHOREPHOBIA

Out with whorephobia! Modern media continues to reinforce harmful rhetoric around sex work and sex workers, with constant digs about 'hookers', 'strippers', and 'whores' that leads to further violence and misogyny. As though sex workers were some subspecies, rather than fellow humans? 

Flip the script by supporting sex work and sex workers through businesses like Harlot Lingerie Store and organisations like the Scarlet Alliance who are actively changing the narrative with resources for our communities. Additionally, take note of/call out whorephobia in your streaming feed. 


BANNING NAMES OF REPRODUCTIVE PARTS

We’re lookin’ at you TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. Vulv4, V4gina, L4bia, P€nis. Deliberate misspelling and having to use words like 'nip nops' for nipples to beat the algorithm isn’t actually helping anyone. How can we have positive, educational and productive discussions about reproductive, sensual and sexual health when we can't even use correct terminology?!


BUTT PLUG SOAP

 

It's almost as if businesses don't care what people insert into their bodies. Just stop it.