Jan 29 2010

Pleasurists #62

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Jan 27 2010

Review Series: Bend over Beginner – Part 1

By Undressed and has 17 comments.

Bend over Beginner Kit provided for review by Babeland

Joseph

We live in a very strange culture. On one hand there is sex in nearly every advertising message that we see. And boy do we see them. It is estimated the average American is confronted with 3,000 advertising messages in some form per day.

Then on the other hand, our national stance on sex is the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting LALALLALALLALA! I am referring, of course, to the fact that a huge number of schools in this nation still teach abstinence only sex education. Because if you don’t teach kids about sex, they won’t have it!

This type of ignorance mixed with over stimulation often gives rise to confusing feelings and the proliferation of misguided concepts about sex and sexuality. Don’t tell me that you have never heard the ludicrous assertions “If I have sex on my period, I can’t get pregnant” or “Well, a blowjob is not sex so you can’t catch anything from giving one“ or the slightly more articulated “If a man receives anal sex, that makes him a fag.”

I grew up in this environment (and I imagine most of you did, too) and while I was able to get my hands on good solid information about sex and sexuality, I am still aware of the general climate in which I live and operate.

It is with that in mind that I announce our first ever review series: The Bend over Beginner kit from Tantus. The reason that we have chosen to do this in a series is because pegging is a very sensitive subject both where we live and at large. We are hoping that by going slowly with this subject, we can cover it more completely and address some of the issues that people have with it.

In this installation we are simply going to talk about the product itself.

The kit is two 100% silicone dildos (7/8″ x 4-1/2″ and 1-1/4″ x 5-1/2″), an adjustable (up to 60″) velvet harness with a pocket for the included bullet vibrator. It also has an interchangeable O-ring in case you want to use larger dildos.

As always with Tantus, the quality of all the materials seems very high and everything is easily cleanable. The harness is machine washable and the dildos can be sanitized via boiling or washing with bleach.

The next installment will cover how the harness fits, warm up and the use of the smaller dildos.

Do YOU have any experience pegging or being pegged? Share your experience with us. Either leave a comment or send us an email. Whichever you are more comfortable with.

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Jan 26 2010

Response: Cosmo, suck my nuts

By Undressed and has 4 comments.

We apologize for the low picture quality. Blame Mimi’s forgetfulness.

I don’t read Cosmopolitan, but my attention was brought to the February 2010 issue one insomniatic night by the internetz. The article’s title immediately sent up red flags in my brain: “Are you turning your man into a girlie man?”

The offensiveness begins immediately with the writer, Molly Triffin, painting a portrait of a “girlie man” and his girlfriend or wife who has turned him into a limp dicked shadow of a man. It’s apparently unheard of for a man to want to take an exercise class, to watch a show headed by women (my husband likes Gilmore Girls more than I do), and vegetarian fare. Despite the article being prefaced with how it’s good for gender roles to blur (to a point), it’s hard to believe that’s more than a disclaimer or afterthought so that people like me don’t get uppity.

“To some degree, this is a good thing – we obviously don’t want to revert back to 50′s sex stereotypes – but there’s a point where it goes to far…”

Oh really? It’s not so obvious to me. There are several examples within the article that reinforce archaic stereotypes, and very little acknowledgement of how we all cross gender “barriers” all the time. Even when strict gender roles were in place, femininity and masculinity are not solid things chained to one’s genitals. Any transgender or genderfluid person could tell you that much. (You know, if their existence was recognized in a positive, respectful way. Ever.) Or why didn’t the article mention what a great thing it is that a man can desire to take yoga classes and act on that desire because we’re not stuck in the Middle Ages?

I mean, why didn’t she just say it: “Are you turning your man into a FAG?”

The real issue of the article should have been is that it’s unhealthy to try and push anything on another human being. It’s unhealthy to spend every day all day with that person. It’s unhealthy to expect that person to make changes in his/her/their activities when you will not ever do the same. This was touched on toward the end of the article, so in a way, I agree with the advice. Try to be fair and remember that maintaining a sense of individuality will keep you both happy. It’s how Triffin stumbled into that area that I find appalling.

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