Review: Love to Love Oh Oui! Banana Vibrator

She Vibe was kind enough to send me something to review and that something just happened to be the Love to Love Oh Oui!, which is definitely not something you see everyday.  It’s a hot pink banana with a bullet inside it.  Yep, a naner.  I know shoving a naner in your vagina might weird you out and it kind of did me, too – Why did I take it? BECAUSE IT’S ANDY WARHOL INSPIRED, THAT’S WHY.  The little pamphlet has really cute art on it.

Now that I’ve used excessive caps lock, I’ll tell you what I think of it.  First of all, if you like and must have texture in your toys, walk away right now.  This is completely smooth with not even a hint of texture.  It’s also not too girthy, which combined with the lack of texture and the nice curve would make it great for someone new to penetration.

The packaging is just basic.  It comes in a foam container with a big hot pink label.  I discarded it since keeping a toy in foam seemed like a waste of space in my toy chest.  I opted for a zip-lock bag home for it instead.

I do have one complaint – the bullet vibe.  Firstly, it comes separately when you get the Oh Oui, but me being the idiot I am stuck it in all the way without any lube on it.  We all know what happens next – IT’S STUCK.  So if I never need to take it out and change the batteries I’m out of luck unless I can get someone with tiny fingers to get it out for me.  Another thing about bullet vibes is that they just aren’t strong at all.  If you’re looking for a vibrator to actually stimulate you to orgasm, look elsewhere.  This is more just a light fluttering along the toy when it’s turned on.

However, I’m not a fan of internal vibrations and the Oh Oui as a dildo does just fine.  It’s not going to make sparks fly and cause you to call everyone you know to state you just had an out of body experience, but its ability to target the g-spot is up there with other quality silicone toys like those from Tantus.

So there you have it, it’s a nice, simple silicone toy that would be great for people that are either beginners to penetration or those who don’t like texture.  The main downfall is the bullet vibe, which I have never been a fan of, but I know some people genuinely like them.

Head over the She Vibe by clicking on the big banner below and check out their selection.  They have some of the best prices on toys I have ever seen.  The njoy Eleven for $200? Yep, they have it.  They’re also super helpful people, so give them some business!

Thanks so much to all the lovely people at She Vibe for sending this over for review!

A short interview with Matt from Tickle

Matt, the founder and main guy of Tickle, and I were recently talking and I thought it would be a great idea to do an interview with him so people understand a little more about what Tickle is about and why they should support this awesome company.  Matt has been nothing but helpful when I asked questions about the toys I was sent to review and I know he would do the same with his customers.

On to the interview!

Here's a glance at how Tickle's website is designed. Simple, classy and easy to use.

Who are you?

Well, I’m a 23 year old bisexual from North Carolina. I went to Guilford College (go Quakers!) in Greensboro, NC for 3 years before leaving to start Tickle. Before Tickle, I was a documentary photographer and curator of Vewd.org (I had a Wikipedia article, but it seems someone finally realized I wasn’t important enough and removed it). I’m very open and always welcome people to contact me, my e-mail address is mattblalock@myticklespot.com or ask me anything. http://www.formspring.me/mattblalock

Why did you start Tickle?
Everyone asks me why I would get into such a crowded space, but that’s part of why I did it. There are many companies that offer the same products as Tickle, but they don’t support their customers. They just sell things. They stick it up on the shelf and let you buy what you want and you leave. If it doesn’t work or you don’t like it, too bad. I didn’t like that. It didn’t make me feel warm and fuzzy about buying something so intimate, so personal. I decided I’d be as good as any to solve that problem. I can’t say I’ve solved it just yet, but we’re very close. I work every day to make Tickle better, one day (hopefully soon!) I think we’ll have our perfect toy store.

It seems like you guys stock higher end toys or just nicer toys in general.  This makes me so happy since there are many shops that carry all kinds of toys with phthalates and chemicals.  What inspired you to decide not to carry these types of toys?
We do stock the best of the best. We made a decision early on that we would not present something that could be unsafe for our customers. We’ve researched every ingredient and every material for every product we offer. If it could be unsafe, based on our research, we will not offer it. As an extension of that, we have a policy regarding complaints. We track every complaint we receive about a product and monitor the reviews very closely. If a product continues to make our customers unhappy, we will stop selling it immediately.

What’s it like being the little guy trying to compete with the big stores?
It’s incredibly exhilarating! We’re competing with companies whose daily advertising budget exceeds our annual budget. Think about that, they spend more in a day than we could in a year! Needless to say, we must get creative. While it is exhilarating, it can be equally exhausting; we know we can offer amazing service and products to people and we wish we could offer it to far more, sadly we’re reaching just a small number of people. On the bright side, our customers are very happy and we’re happy to have them!

Your affiliate program is wonderfully designed and is probably one of the best I have seen.  What, according to you, makes your program really appealing to bloggers?
Thank you! We think the best thing about the program is the support we can provide. We don’t just let everyone into our program; for every application we accept, we deny 10. We do this intentionally so that we can support our Partners like a family. We’ll create banners for our Partners, help optimize their websites, and in one case, we even completely rebuilt a website for a Partner. Plus, we do offer very good commissions!

So there you have it.  If you haven’t heard of Tickle or have just passed them up until now, I would highly encourage you to check them out.  If you click the banner below it will take you to the main page.  I’m not even putting my affiliate code in so that it doesn’t appear that I’m doing this for commissions – I just really, really like Tickle and want them to succeed.

Pleasurists #79

by Kedralynn

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Pleasurists #78

by Compass Rose Studios

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Adventures in Spain #1: Get your soda, chips and jerk-off pack here

For those of you that don’t know, this is now my third day in Spain.  I’ll be here a couple months relaxing and finishing out my college credits.  Anyway, we were walking around the other night and saw some weird giant vending machine.  I obviously had to go investigate.  I found normal stuff – chips, soda, candy and. . . a jerk-off pack.  What is a jerk-off pack you ask?  Well, scented lube along with tissues under the brand “Foxy.”  Yes, Foxy.

It looks all innocent from far away:

Then you get closer and between the chips, soda, and Hello Kitty candy is this gem:

So, I’ll leave you with that.  Seriously guys, jerk-off pack – 8,50 euros.

Review: Crystal Delights Plug

The CD Plug comes with a padded pouch, Boy Butter H2O lube, a glass charm attached to a business card & two Lifestyles condoms

The Crystal Delights plug is a collaboration between Virtually Adult and RubyGlass21.  The most obvious feature is the giant crystal in the base of the plug.  They currently are making various colors in both long and short lengths, so you can pick if you want a 1/2″ neck or a whopping 1-1/2″ neck.  For those of you unfamiliar with RubyGlass21 – they are a small company in Oregon that makes really, really awesome toys.  I have another piece from them that I really like and even though I got it a year ago, I still use it frequently.

I requested the longer version since I had trouble with another glass plug (Luxotiq) with a short neck staying in place.  Then I read Britni’s reviews and had a major “Why did I pick the long one?” moment.  However, after trying it out, I’m so, so glad I picked it.

If the neck were any shorter, the very wide base would have been painful, but because about 1/4″ of the neck could remain uninserted the base set right at the edge of my cheeks rather than far in between.  This totally saved the CD plug from complete failure.

One thing that needs to be shown it just how pretty this plug really is, so I took a lot of pictures for you to see the size compared to my hand as well as the gem in the base:

In my hand. For reference, my hand measures a little over 7" from the base of my palm to my fingertips.

With flash so you can see how light reflects off the stone

Without flash

Overall, I really love the Crystal Delights plug, but if I could change one thing I would make the base slightly smaller so it sits between the cheeks instead of right outside.  This would also make it less likely to work its way out if you’re walking around a lot.  The good news is, unlike most plugs made of harder materials I’ve encountered, this one is pretty comfortable to sit down with.  I had no problem sitting on the computer and talking to Epiphora after she demanded me to put the plug in and tell her if it was okay or not.

Basically, if you want some bling for your ass, here it is.  You can get the longer or shorter version in a variety of colors from VirtuallyAdult.com.  Also, I would like to mention that out of all the companies I’ve worked with, Shellie from Virtually Adult is awesome.  She’s incredibly efficient as getting back to you quickly and is friendly as all get out.  She’s great and I really encourage you to support her and her awesome company.

Thanks so much to Virtually Adult for sending me the Crystal Delights plug!