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Pleasurists #30

May 31st, 2009 | Category: book review, linkage, pleasurists, review, toys

 

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Found via The Alexa Collection photographer unknown.

 

Pleasurists is your round-up of the adult product reviews that came out in the last seven days from bloggers all around the sex blogosphere. Did you miss Pleasurists #28? Read it all here. Do you have a review for Pleasurists #30? Submit it here before Sunday May 25th at 11:59pm PDT. Please re-post this list on your own blog if listed.

Want to win some free swag? All you’ve got to do is enter.

Madame Editrix

Scarlet Lotus St.Syr

On to the reviews…

Editor’s Pick

  • Comparing Pelvic Exercise Balls by Sexorcism

    • I’ve reviewed four sets of pelvic exercise balls: Fun Factory Teneo Uno, LELO Luna Beads, Fun Factory SmartBalls, and Fun Factory Teneo Duo. Here is a comparison of four sets by their size, materials, stimulation level, ease of insertion and features.

    Note: This is a wonderful comparison of the four major pelvic exercise balls out there. It’s very basic in many ways but covers the topic well and gives a lot of wonderful details.

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Lube, Bath Stuff, & etc.

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Adult Books

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Q and A Answer #1

May 30th, 2009 | Category: Q and A, Real life stories, linkage, queer, toys

Here is my first segment of answering my Q and A with Essin’ Em (you’re still welcome to post/email me with your questions).

These were a set of three questions submitted by Gray.

1) When you first starting writing, did you prefer to be anonymus or were you out there from day one?

I started out writing solely under the pen name Essin’ Em, and I didn’t post any pictures that showed my face. The first time I had a picture of me was in June 2007 with an amusing sign after visiting Howard Stern’s set. After that, I slowly let out more details of my life; what part of the country I lived in, some events I was attending (like Dinah Shore), etc.  I’m much more open and transparent than I was when I started. I completely respect those who remain anonymous, but I’m so out there anyways that I enjoy being who I am and out there.  At Sex 2.0, we talked about blog personas vs. real life personas.  I’m pretty sure (and people who have met me, feel free to comment) that Essin’ Em online is the same as Essin’ Em in real life.

2) Do you think you and Q will go to another play party?

I asked Q. Her answer was yes, at some point.  We’re hoping there will be a women’s only party soon, because she’s be more comfortable with that.  But yes, hopefully it will happen. She says “Hi!” by the way. I’ll keep you updated.

3) Do random companies send you products to test out or do you have a contract with a couple of them to work as a consultant?

No contracts.  I review for companies whose ethics/toys I approve of.  If there is a banner for them on the right side of the page, I like the company.  Babeland, Vibereview, Liberator, and SexToy.com send me toys on a regular basis. I get other toys and movies occasionally, like the Mr. Man from Jollies, the Mia from Vibrator.com, Couch Surfers from Trannywood Pictures, etc.  I get lots of offers, but sadly, I can’t accept all of them, both for time/posting, and ethical reasons.

Hope those answers have helped!

-Essin’ Em

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The Boots are Made for Walking

May 29th, 2009 | Category: linkage, queer, review

SexToy.com has more than just sex toys.  In fact, they have shoes. And by shoes, I mean shoes AND boots. In fact, they were kind enough to send me two sets of Ellie foot wear; boots AND shoes.

These are the shoes they sent:

Obviously, these shoes come in a variety of sizes, but here’s a link to the size 8 black 5″ heels that I got to give a try.

Firstly, they’re incredibly cute. They’re fairly simple, classic black Mary Janes with a little bit of pizzaz.  I really really really love Ellie shoes because for 4″ heels, they’re surprisingly comfortable.  I can wear these shoes for hours before my feet start hurting.  Granted, I’m never standing in them for long periods of time, given my knee problems, but I’ll have them on my feet for five or six hours with no issues.  And unlike most shoes, when I take them off, my feet aren’t killing me for another few hours.

The other day, I was cooking dinner for my friend Vee (yes, she of the stripper pole). Q kept texting me to please come over for sex. It was thundering and lightening, which is a huge aphrodisiac for me, so she was really trying to be a good partner, fulfilling my fantasies by fucking in a rainstorm.  I had to keep telling her I’d come over, but LATER, because I had plans.  When I finally headed over, I decided to dress up to cheer her up and make it up to her.  I wore an outfit similar to the one I wore on CrashPadSeries.com:

But with the sexy black heels. The look on her face when she came down the stairs to let me in off of her door step was far more than worth it.  Also, I was pretty impressed with myself that I kept them on the entire time I topped her and fucked her, taking them off only to cuddle afterwards.

I also wore them in my shoot with Sabrina Morgan…and they looked pretty hot with my polka dot, halter top sun dress.  

Basically, these shoes go with almost anything, are incredibly comfortable, are ridiculously affordable, and besides, are incredibly hot. Why wouldn’t you want a pair?

Then, there are the boots. Mmmm.  Knee high, black 5″ heel, lace up boots. Yum. I mean, look at them:

I’ve always wanted a pair of boots like this.  Only, there is one problem.  After 12 years of ballet, 10 years of figure skating, and roller derby, I have mondo-calves.  As in they are the most built muscles in my body.  As such, they are too big to fit into most boots, even ones that tie up. 

I was nervous when I got these, but hot damn. They fit!  I loosened each one all up, zipped up the side after sliding my foot in, and then tied each one up. Perfect!

I wore them to the play party I went to with Q. Even though she usually doesn’t say anything about how I look, she told me how much she liked my outfits, boots included.

However, the boots aren’t as comfortable as the shoes. They’re ok for an hour or two, but then they start hurting, Moreover, when you take them off (after a few hours in my case), they leave deep imprints on your legs, and your feet keep hurting.

Granted, that won’t stop me from wearing them occasionally, but they’re definitely not every day, or even every play party kind of shoes.

Like sexy shoes like I do? Check out more shoe selection at SexToy.Com.

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I’m a little porny HNT

May 28th, 2009 | Category: HNT, News, Real life stories, amusing, feminism, linkage, non-monogamy, piercing, queer

Photo By Furry Girl/Agrimony Photography

While at Sex 2.0, we had a brilliant idea to make a shoot for GoodDykePorn.com. And by we, I mean, it takes a village to film a porn film.  My lovely co-star was Sabrina Morgan, the stills camera shooter was Furry Girl (Acrimony Photography), make-up was done by Ellie Lumpesse, some lights provided by For Your Nymphomation, an Njoy Eleven was lent from Match (and by golly, if I didn’t put BOTH ends in both my mouth and my cunt – I was pretty impressed with myself), and so much more.  It definitely was a collaboration, which honestly, is how ethical porn should be. In my own humble opinion. Oh! And the really sexy and smart Sequoia Redd was our audience member (slash mental fluffer?).

So yes. I’ll let you know when the shoot goes up on GDP.  But just the shooting of it was a ridiculous amount of fun!  I hope to work with more people to get stuff up on the site. I love being naked, I love sex, I love being filmed. God, if only more ethical companies wanted alternative, curvy models!  If you know of anyone who might want to shoot me (film or video) for their site, please let me know.

That’s all for now folks.  Thanks to all the amazing feminists who helped this shoot become a reality!

Happy Half Nekkid Thursday!

-Essin’ Em

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Sequoia tree, very pretty

May 27th, 2009 | Category: News, Real life stories, feminism, linkage, masturbation, pictures, travel

One of the lovely people I was able to meet while at Sex 2.0 was Sequoia Redd. She’s a red magick witch, sex writer, erotic artist and adult model.  She’s also incredibly stunning.

She’d actually one of the reasons I’m really glad I went to Sex 2.0. I mean, obviously there are many many awesome people I finally met in real life, but I had never even heard of Sequoia.  She writes a wonderful blog at www.SequoiaRedd.net, and I’m a little sad I haven’t been reading it for a while. Her thoughts are interesting and intriguing, sometimes amusing, and I love her video blogs.

Additionally, she owns Masturbation Impossible, which is a site about masturbating and coming in a variety of public places. Obviously, that’s something right up my alley.

She’s also a nature loving, eco-conscious, nudist, feminist, awesome-ist who is very sweet, genuine and well-spoken.  Because until now, our circles haven’t crossed, I’m so glad I was able to meet her at Sex 2.0. Moreover, I’m headed to Florida and am hoping to be able to hang out with her and maybe shoot with her while I’m there.

Regardless, she’s a good read, and I highly recommend heading over to her blog.  Plus, look how beautiful she is!

-Essin’ Em

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Going where no one has gone before!

May 25th, 2009 | Category: News in my life, Real life stories, Thoughts, breakup, butch/femme, dating, queer, relationships, trust

I’m so in love with how well my relationship/partnership with Q is working out.  Like, am astounded.

We’ve been fucking since January.  That makes it four or five months that we’ve been fucking/hanging out/sexing/making out/chatting, etc.  And unlike that majority of my past relationships (primary or secondary), I’m not getting nervous.  Well, not in the same way.

With J, after our five month period, I realized that things weren’t working as well.  There wasn’t the same spark, the same connection.  While we had a difference of opinion as to the preferential way to end things (J was of the break things off immediately mode, and I prefer to let things run their natural course and just fizzle out), it was pretty obvious that the relationship as it existed was on its last legs. We were together about six months.

With F, it was the most ridiculously cyclical relationship.  I’d get upset by the way things were going, get ready to explain that it wasn’t working for me, and then she’d do something that made me feel better/wanted/etc, and we’d go back to a mini honeymoon period, and then the drinking, or processing conversations, or being flaked out on would get to me again, and I’d get frustrated and be ready to be done, and then I’d go away for a few days and come back and things would be better and dot dot dot etc. Regardless, I knew that there would definitely be an expiration date on that relationship in the capacity that it existed. We’re still acquaintances, but things are definitely done. And have been for a while. We were together almost five months.

Q is only the third person I’ve had sex with more than twice in the past three years.  Usually, it’s because I have sex with people while traveling, or while they’re visiting me, or before one of us went back to school, or right before one of us moved, or _______.  I was talking to Sasha Sappho about this, about how different it is to have any type of relationship (fuck buddies, secondaries, primaries, etc) when there isn’t a finite end date.  I eventually want to move West, but I know I’m staying in CO for a bit.  I don’t have a date that I’m leaving.  And that makes me nervous, because I tend to find it easier to open up myself to people when there IS an end date, so if they reject me, I can just leave and move on.

Q is not my girlfriend. We are not primaries.  However, she IS my partner, and she’s the healthiest relationship I’ve ever had. I can be 99% myself around her, which is more than I can say for any of my other partners (mostly my doing to try and change to make them happy, not their fault). She’s worked really hard to communicate better, and I’ve worked on not over thinking and labeling things.  She puts up with my silliness (meowing, breathing fire on her, listening to 80s music while fucking, etc).

The other day, I got a bit teary post-fucking. Why? Because I have hang ups on letting people playing with me when I know I’m not going to come because I feel like I’m being selfish and wasting their time.  I just wanted to get up and leave and not deal with it, but I stayed, and we talked about it.  She assured me she wouldn’t do anything she didn’t enjoy.  While that doesn’t “fix” my hang up, at least we discussed it.

I have sex with other people. She does too. And it works. Poly done right, if you will, although I personally identify more as non-monogamous than poly.  She knows I do phone sex, and porn, and all that, and has no issues (that she’s voiced) with it, but conversely doesn’t objectify me for it.

And the sex? My god, the sex! I cannot be in the same room as her without wanted to rip her clothes off and fuck her. We’ve actually not hung out once since we started fucking where there has not been sex. We got close the other day, and just made out for an hour because she had a paper, but then there was fucking. With the exception of K, who I just feel this lust for, and happens to be unattainable in my mind (and a big tease, in a good way), I’ve never felt this much sexual attraction towards anyone.  We sex text occasionally, and suddenly, thoughts of sex with her permeate all other thought processes.  With most people, even with good sex, it started tapering off around month three for me.  I still like being with them, but I’m more cuddly and chatty, and less “please let me put my fingers inside you and then please fuck me until I can’t take it anymore and am calling yellow.” Not with Q. If anything, I am now even MORE sexually driven around her.

I feel good with her. I feel safe. I feel that I can be silly or serious, be nerdy, be happy or sad, and just be me around her.  She’s very validating, and I can be open.  Sometimes I tell her I’m feeling a bit judged (usually a bit in jest, but always with a grain of truth behind it), and we talk about it.  I feel like I can be vulnerable around her, let down my “I’m here to help, and can fix anything, and nothing is wrong with me” wall. It’s nice.

I like that now sometimes she calls me sweetie, or will scratch my back and rub my shoulders occasionally. We now have the intimacy that I’ve always wanted, but have been afraid to ask for, in fear that people will think I’m being to serious/girlfriendy/etc.

I don’t know how long this will last.  I don’t feel an expiration date coming up like I did with J and F.  But who knows?  And it doesn’t matter, because *right now,* in this second, this period in time, it’s working. I appreciate her very much, and am so happy she’s in my life. Who knows what it’ll be like in a month (hopefully well, because I want to go with her to the Canada vs United States women’s rugby game!), or two, or even next week. But right now, I’m so happy, so satisfied, and am so glad I found her.

That’s all.

-Essin’ Em

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My Awkward Introduction to Genderfork

May 24th, 2009 | Category: News, Thoughts, amusing, feminism, gender, language, linkage, queer, travel

I had been offered half of my bus fare to bus it up to Philly from DC on Saturday night after the conference, as a friend of mine tried to facilitate my attendance at Philly’s monthly queer play party “Hanky Code.” In counter-negotiation, Furry Girl, who was rooming with me, offered to try to set up my oh so desired queer gang bang for Saturday night at the conference hotel to entice me to stay in DC.  As much as I wanted to go to Hanky Code, I don’t have any spare change, and adding a cab to the bus costs, plus an entry fee, was just too much. Plus, how does one say no to a queer gang bang.

However, as Friday night progressed, the bang was looking less and less likely.  At one point, I said to Furry Girl “I just don’t know if there are enough queer identified people at this conference to make this happen.”  She asked me wasn’t Sarah Dopp queer enough for my tastes?  I had no idea who this “Sarah Dopp” was, and said so.  She told me she was really hot, and queer, and probably very much my type. And then the conversation moved on.

Later that night, I snuck into the porn and brownies celebration in the Sex 2.0 suite to yoink a vegan cupcake. As I bent over the delicious treats in front of me, my eyes caught a name tag. “Sarah Dopp.” I looked up.  She WAS hot. Very much so.

“Wow…you really ARE hot!” I said, forgetting all the social niceties about possibly introducing myself or anything like that. But then again, that’s also pretty much how I roll.

“Um…what?”

“You’re really hot. Hot, attractive, yes, that.”

“Oh. I thought you were telling me that you thought I was really high.” Which she wasn’t. And also wasn’t what I said.

Yeah. Awkward. But after 24 hours of dealing with it, I’m embracing this as awkwardness. It’s less worse than the “my anus is bleeding!” moment, or ending up in the ER after miniature golfing on a second date.  And I explained the whole gang bang conversation, and then brought her up to meet the brilliant Audacia Ray.  Where we then looked at pickled baby pictures from the Walter Reed Medical Museum.

But here’s the thing.  Sarah Dopp, in addition to being really attractive, is also very smart.  And activist-y.  In fact, she has her own fancy site (www.DoppJuice.com).

Moreover, she also is the brains behind Genderfork.  What, you may ask, IS Genderfork? In her own words from the site;

Genderfork.com is a blog that explores androgyny and gender variance — that playful intersection between “male” and “female” that seems to confuse and intrigue us.

There are more and more sites popping up exploring things like this (such as Queer Eye Candy, the brain child of Sinclair Sexsmith), but this one is not the same as anything I’ve seen out there. And as someone who is asked time and time again to explain the concept of “genderqueer” to a large variety of people, I’m thinking this site is going to be a great resource for me, and others in the world of the interwebs.

Sarah has created a site with a combo of pictures, quotations and other writings, and profiles of and by people who are genderqueer/fuckers/forkers of sorts. It’s incredibly interesting to read others thoughts, quotes and stories on this, and to enjoy the pictures and videos on the site.

You should definitely check out Genderfork.com. I just want to know why no one (all you forkers, queers, pervs, etc) told me about this site, and why I had to find out about it in such a spectacularly awkward (and 100% me) kind of way.

-Essin’ Em

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HotMoviesForHer.com GIVEAWAY!

May 23rd, 2009 | Category: News, Swag, amusing, linkage, queer

By Women, For Women

Do you like porn? Cause I do.  A lot.  Watching it, masturbating to it, fucking to it, fucking on film, you name it.  And you know who else likes porn? HotMoviesForHer.com. Yeah. I used to work for HM4H, and vouch that the site is 100% female run, by a bunch of hot and smart ladies.  I <3 them.

The site offers tens of thousands of movies, including straight, queer, gay, fetish, etc.  Some studios you can find on the site include Pink and White, Good Dyke Porn, Fatale Media, Comstock Films, Femme Productions (Candida Royalle), Burning Angel, and more.

Anyways – they’ve offered to give away TWO pairs of sexy boxers that say “I <3 girl porn” – how nice is that?  Not only that, but I’ll throw in a couple for free 30 minute cards to the winners of the 2 pairs.

I’m looking for two winners.  

How do you enter?

Leave a comment with:

a) Your favorite “adult” movie on HMFH, and why you like it

b) Why you like porn

c) Which size you’d like to win (I have M and XXL up for grabs)

Make sure you enter with an accurate email.  Bonus points if you agree to send me a picture of you in the boxers if you win!

As I have to pay shipping, must be a US resident, or agree to pay international postage.

Deadline: May 31st, 11:59pm MST.

Don’t want to enter? Or want to watch porn while you do?  Head over to HotMoviesForHer.com, check out the blogs, movie and toy reviews, say hi to my favorite dykes JD Bauchery and the Porn Librarian, and enjoy some smut!

-Essin’ Em

 

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Sex Toy Review: Bandito

May 22nd, 2009 | Category: linkage, review, toys

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No no, it’s a Bandito, only the baddest ass villain of a dildo on this side of the Mississippi (sorry, spending too much time at Casa Bonita).

I’m starting to really freaking love the dildos from Fun Factory.  I mean, the Curve dildo is fucking brilliant, and the Bandito, while not *quite* as amazing, is still pretty fucking fabulous. 

Firstly, while there is also a color selection (such as lavender), it comes in BLACK. That’s right. Matte (ie, not shiny) black. Which is wunderbar – my sex toy collection tries to be all black/red/leopard print (with a hint of white), but sadly, as I add dildos, there are now a lot of purple and blue shades.  However, this black dildo fits in perfectly in my cases, sex toy trunk, etc. It looks hot.  It also looks really hot sliding in and out of my partner.

I used this on Q as I teased her with my fingers in her and on her clit, and then slowly slid the Bandito into her.  As she gasped while I slid it in and out of her, my fingers let up for a moment, as I replaced them with the Hitachi.  She told me, between deeper breathes, as she gasped, that she really like the texture was it rubbed up against the side of her cunt.  

It was a whole different experience for us, because it was the first time I used a dildo on her with my hands, rather than strapping it on.  The base was perfect for holding (and it didn’t cramp up my hand, so I think it would also be really good for someone that may have arthritis or chronic pain).  It also fits fine in a harness, but the base is kind of thick. This isn’t good or bad per se – people have what they like, and if you like thick, it’s nice. If you don’t, it can be annoying.

Then she came really hard on the Bandito, and me. Yeah. She said she liked it a lot.

I was pretty impressed. The design is fun, and I personally like the internal stimulation that the swirls provide to my cunt. It’s 100% silicone (and I do like the Matte finish that Fun Factory toys tend to have), so you can boil it/bleach it with 10% bleach solution/dishwash it on top shelf with no soap in order to sterilize it and share it.  I’d give it FOUR STARS out of Five.

Want to get your own bad ass Bandito? Click here!

-Essin’ Em

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An Evil HNT

May 21st, 2009 | Category: HNT, linkage, pictures

Photo Credit: Sick on Sin/Ren Hard Photography

I like this picture a lot, although I feel I look very evil in it, like I’m plotting something.

While 99% of the time, I’m sweet and caring and friendly and fun, albeit a little snarky.  But every once in a while, I have a bitchy side, an evil side, a feisty side, a bratty side, etc.  And I feel this picture shows a side of me that isn’t all sweet or sassy.

That’s it!

Happy Half Nekkid Thursday!

-Essin’ Em

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