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French Demand for Sex Toys Fizzles

Worried consumers cutting kinky goods from their budgets at exotic fair

(Newser) - The economic downturn has thrown cold water on France's usually robust demand for sex toys, lingerie, and other naughty goods, Reuters reports. Organizers of the world's largest erotic fair, which opened near Paris last week, say that while attendance is still healthy, sales of kinky products are down around a...

Knox Speaks Up About Vibrator
 Knox Speaks Up About Vibrator 
Feb 13, 2009 11:49 AM CST

Knox Speaks Up About Vibrator

Friend says she wasn't upset by Kercher's death

(Newser) - Amanda Knox spoke in court today for the first time since her trial began, both to declare her innocence and to set the record straight about her vibrator. A witness had said Kercher was chagrined that Knox kept the sex toy in a transparent bag in plain view. “It...

Obama Junk Is Recession-Proof
 Obama Junk Is 
 Recession-Proof 
OPINION
Jan 19, 2009 2:06 PM CST

Obama Junk Is Recession-Proof

(Newser) - Say what you want about the economy—“like for example, it blows”—but one business is booming: Crap with Barack Obama on it. From votive candles to toilet paper to “victory plates,” you can find the president-elect’s mug on just about anything these days, writes...

Perv Robs Sex Shop, Gets Down With Dolls

Burglar fornicates with dolls in alleyway

(Newser) - Australian police are hunting for a pervert who has twice broken into a Queensland sex shop and had sex with blow-up dolls, the Cairns Post reports. Both times, the deviant smashed a hole in the wall to gain entry to Laneway Adult Shop, stole several sex dolls and copulated with...

Hef: I Almost Choked on Sex Toy

Playboy founder opens up to Extra

(Newser) - The most shocking part of Hugh Hefner’s recently released autobiography is “probably an incident that occurred back in the late ‘70s where I almost swallowed a sex toy,” the Playboy founder tells Extra during a tour of his mansion to air Friday. Less shockingly, Hef reveals...

Do Your Civic Duty and Get a Free Sex Toy

Or coffee, doughnuts, ice cream as shops reward US voters

(Newser) - Joining a host of firms rewarding US voters, a sex-toy chain is giving out self-pleasuring devices to customers who have stopped at the polls, MSNBC reports. Men get “Maverick” sleeves: “He’s always there to lend a hand, he works for every man, and he bucks the status...

Ten Steps to Greener Sex
 Ten Steps to Greener Sex 
Jun 26, 2008 11:32 AM CDT

Ten Steps to Greener Sex

From recycled bikinis to fair trade condoms

(Newser) - Eco-conscious sex certainly doesn't have too enticing a ring to it, but don't discount the enjoyable ways to spice things up while doing your part to save the Earth, says Greendaily.com. From the reasonable to the wacky, they've got you, er, covered:
  • Grab French Letter condoms, the world's only
...

Broke California May Tax Beer, iTunes, Sex Toys

Partisan battle heats up as budget shortfall looms

(Newser) - A $1.80 tax on every six-pack of beer. An iTunes sales tax. A 25% tax on sex toys and pornographic entertainment. These are just some of the more creative measures put forth by California's Democratic lawmakers to close a budget shortfall estimated at $20 billion, the Los Angeles Times ...

New Gal: Spitz Likes Sex Toys
 New Gal: Spitz Likes Sex Toys 
Apr 24, 2008 11:20 AM CDT

New Gal: Spitz Likes Sex Toys

Second prostitute-informant has confirmed to feds what others have already suggested

(Newser) - A second hooker has confirmed to federal investigators Eliot Spitzer's proclivity for prostitutes and unprotected sex but has also revealed another embarrassing detail: the disgraced New York governor's fondness for sex toys, the New York Post reports.

CNN Star Busted With Drugs, Sex Toy in Park

Charges dropped pending drug counseling

(Newser) - When cops found Richard Quest in Central Park early yesterday morning, they first busted him for loitering past the park's closing time. Then they noticed that the CNN star had a rope tied from his neck to his genitals, drugs in his pocket, and a sex toy in his boot,...

Sex Aids' Shelf Space, Sales Grow
Sex Aids'
Shelf Space, Sales Grow
Feb 15, 2008 2:25 PM CST

Sex Aids' Shelf Space, Sales Grow

Wal-Mart, other major chains aren't hiding lubricants and the like

(Newser) - Be careful letting your kids wander in Wal-Mart—the retail giant and other mainstream stores are devoting more shelf space to sex aids, Newsweek reports, and they aren’t hiding it. Lubricants, oils and even vibrators are increasingly appearing next to contraceptives and pregnancy tests. “Even the more conservative...

Court Lifts Ban on Sex Toys in Texas

Only three Southern states have similar laws on the books

(Newser) - Sex toys got a pardon in the Lone Star State yesterday, when a federal appeals court overturned a law banning their sale. The court ruled that the law prohibiting the possession of six or more devices used primarily for sexual stimulation violates the right to privacy. The decision cites a...

Ban Stands on Alabama Sex Toys, Finally

Much-challenged law will affect women unfairly, gripes writer

(Newser) - After 9 years of court challenges, an Alabama judge has green lighted enforcement of a state law banning the sale of sex toys—the Supreme Court declined to hear the case last week—making Wired’s Regina Lynn cry misogyny. The statute does not outlaw Viagra to help men achieve...

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