Male baboons just sex toys
Girls rule.
That’s what wildlife biologist Chadden Hunter, one of the featured researchers in the two-part PBS Nature documentary What Females Want and Males Will Do, found after living for three years in the Simien mountains of northern Ethiopia with a troop of gelada baboons.
He found that the female baboons establish what, when, where, why and how, where sex is concerned. Girls rule — literally, as it turned out: He watched as one group of four females chased a male off a cliff, after irreconcilable differences reached a crisis point.
“The males, even though they’re twice the size, are just sex toys,” Hunter said, with a straight face.
Lawsuit Over Online Sex Toys Settled
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A dispute over sales of virtual sex toys has resulted in a real-life slap on the wrist for a Texas teenager.
Eros LLC, a Tampa Bay-area company that creates virtual sex scripts in the online world “Second Life,” sued Robert Leatherwood, 19, last year claiming he copied, displayed or distributed Eros products without permission.
Eros creations allow “Second Life” users to equip their online personas, or avatars, with realistic genitalia and engage the avatars in various sexual actions.
A federal judge accepted a settlement in the case last week that doesn’t involve money or an admission of wrongdoing from Leatherwood.
Reached at his grandmother’s home in North Richland Hills, Texas, he acknowledged he sold Eros products but said the whole case had been overblown.
Be informed when buying sex toys
The sex-toy industry is like a bad parent who lets its children chew on toxic toys.
Recently, Health Canada announced it would be banning the use of certain phthalates in products intended for kids, like teethers and rattles.
Meanwhile, adults can play with toys that, in certain animals, may cause anything from hormonal and reproductive problems to liver and kidney damage.
“The sex-toy industry is largely unregulated. Products are sold as novelty items, which makes manufacturers immune to certain regulations that would provide more quality control,” says Edmonton sexologist Brian Parker.
Most poorly made sex toys are often made of materials like jelly, plastic or latex, which are porous and can’t be properly sterilized. They can also have sharp seams, which may cause tears in the vaginal or rectal walls, and can cause allergic reactions and bacterial infections.
Sex toys expected to boost SSL
Strong sales of Durex condoms and Scholl foot cream as well as the marketing of new sex toys have put healthcare company SSL in a confident mood before its results next month.
The company said yesterday that it expected to meet its double-digit operating profit growth target after strong sales over the year to March 31.
It cited the “strong performance of Durex condoms” combined with the introduction of the Durex Play range of sex toys, for much of the growth. The Durex Play name has brought in a growing share of the brand’s turnover since it was launched around two years ago.
Sex Toys 101 and Other Lessons From Yale Sex Week
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale students accustomed to competing for straight-A’s will be vying for triple X’s this weekend as they compete to win a porn-star look-alike contest. It’s that time of year again: the return of the Ivy League school’s controversial Sex Week.
During eight days of programming, students can learn everything from how to achieve a state beyond bliss to the proper application of personal lubricants.
And it’s all free, once mom and dad have covered the $45,000 for room, board and tuition.
Nonetheless, some say Sex Week has no place in the classroom.
“I don’t see the need for college students to talk to each other about sex anymore than they already do,” said sophomore Jake McGuire, who has been writing about the events for the school’s conservative Yale Free Press newspaper.
Sex toys: How appealing are they?
Sex toys are objects or devices primarily used in facilitating human sexual pleasures. The most popular sex toys are designed to resemble human genitals and organs, capable of enhancing and ensuring that the user gets the desired stimulation or ultimate pleasure being targeted. Reasons for use of sex toys vary from person to person, while many abhor its usage like a plague.
For those in this category too, the reasons are many. For many guys, the need for their women to resort to sex toy usage is simply an indication that they are not performing adequately in bed, and, thus, lack the capability to satisfy their women. They would rather die trying to please the women, or simply impose it upon them that they must learn to be satisfied with what is available.
Many women also consi- der the suggestion to use them as an insult on their morality.
State’s sex-toy ban powerless?
Mississippi’s law banning the advertising and sale of sex toys has been placed in jeopardy after the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals struck down a similar law in Texas, an official with the state attorney general’s office says.
“It’s still on the books, but the 5th Circuit ruling will make any defense of the law problematic,” said Assistant Attorney General Harold Pizzetta. “It will put our statute in jeopardy.”
Pizzetta said anyone cited under the state law will point to the court decision.
Harry V. Rosenthal of Pearl, the license holder for Secrets adult bookstore at 775 E. McDowell Road in Jackson, said he considers the Mississippi law negated after the ruling in the Texas case.
Sex toys top list of items tenants leave behind
Sexy toys are the number one item left behind by departing tenants, according to a new survey by The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS).
The research revealed the array of unusual items that people leave behind, which are discovered by surprised landlords as they clean up.
Other bizarre items left behind included a milk bottle filled with blood, dead bodies, a false eye, blow-up dolls, illegal immigrants, a �knicker tree’ of female conquests and handcuffs chained to a wall.
“More than 1000 landlords across the UK were keen to talk to us about the items that their tenants had left behind, which certainly reinforces the message of selecting the right renters from the very start of the lease,” said Kevin Firth, client services director at The DPS - the Government-approved scheme set up to protect tenants’ deposits.
