The paper warns that many sex toys including “dildos, vibrators and anal plugs” contain large amounts of toxic substances like plasticizers (additives which give dildos their penis-like flexibility). When absorbed through mucous membranes these dispersants “can lead to infertility, hormone imbalances, diabetes and obesity.”
via Germany’s Green Party Warns Against Sex-Toys, Promotes Safe Masturbation | Death and Taxes.
When a Florida phone-sex worker developed carpal tunnel syndrome in each of her busy hands, she took the case to court. Now she gets her satisfaction from workers’ compensation checks.
“Sex work is slowly becoming more similar to other professions,” she told the paper.
Red light district jobs are becoming as specialised as those in other fields, she said.
While some prostitution has become concentrated in large high-end “wellness” brothels such as Berlin’s Charlottenburg district Artemis – which boasts a pool, sauna and buffet – other establishments are focusing on the controversial practice of “flat-rate” prices.
A CAMBRIDGE University society will host a debate involving a former porn star.
The Cambridge Union Society, which has hosted some of the world’s most eminent speakers including Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, and Clint Eastwood, will entertain former-porn actress Shelley Lubben, who gave up her porn career and founded the Pink Cross Foundation – an anti-pornography charity.
On the same bill as Lubben will be Dr Richard Woolfson, a child psychologist, porn-star Johnny Anglais and the UK’s first female adult film director, Anna Span.
The society will debate the motion “This house believes that pornography does a good public service”.
Porn stars will debate in Cambridge University society – News – Cambridge First
All that is needed for the virtual encounter was an Internet-linked computer and a Web camera.
Pink also used FaceTime video chat capabilities of Apple iPhones to connect expo goers with models that were at home.
Models from a VSex.com website demonstrated a service that let online viewers remotely control a robotic phallus during an intimate online exchange with a woman. Private VSex sessions cost 7 dollars per minute.
Sex gets cyber as porn and Internet mate – ABS-CBN News – Latest Philippine Headlines, Breaking
A man gets just an average of less than three hours of orgasm throughout his lifetime, according to China Press.
Orgasm is the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitement.
Singapore Gleneagles Hospital gynaecologist Dr Fang Zhuang Wei said that due to busy lifestyles these days, couples were only sexually active before and immediately after their marriage, reports the Star Online.
For instance, he said if a man had an average orgasm of about 2.5 seconds over 40 years (from age 18 to 58), and had sex twice weekly with his wife, he would enjoy two hours, 53 minutes and 20 seconds of orgasm in his lifetime.
According to a Chinese online media report, if a man can live up to 78 years old and has a 2.02 seconds of orgasm each time he has sex, doctors in China estimated the man would have 16 hours of orgasm in total.
via Men get 3hrs of orgasm in their lifetime – The Times of India.
A Surrey provincial court judge has convicted a man of committing an indecent act – namely, public masturbation – after rejecting his testimony as “self serving.”
Judge Kenneth Ball didn’t believe Tajinder “Ricky” Singh Gill’s story that he’d been masturbating with his hand inside his shorts, but didn’t expose himself, while he was driving down a busy Surrey street.
via Judge Ball says masturbator’s testimony was ‘self serving’.
The victim of the second occurrence, who will remain anonymous due to the nature of the crime, said she and a friend were walking down Holley Street on the night of the incident around 11 p.m., with Hazen on their left. She said they heard what she described as a “smacking or clap sound.”
“We looked over and saw that he was definitely masturbating,” the victim said. “He didn’t make an attempt to follow us or move toward us at all, but [we felt] threatened because it is just horrifying to see that.”
After seeing the man, she said she and her friend began to run down Holley Street.
Besides the standard coffee and tea, minibar drinks, and bedside bible, it also included sex toys such as handcuffs, stay ups and a vibrator.
via Stockholm hotel slammed over complimentary sex toys in room – World News, 51899.
t’s ironic that in the rare news items featuring male chastity devices, they are portrayed as anti-sex toys, or sometimes, as in the latter example, as de-masculinising. Indeed, even the comments on the original post range from horror, to amusement, to disgust. It would have been enheartening to see even one comment to the effect of “Hey, that’s pretty cool!”