Sexuality Happens

Holy 4th Blogiversary Contest

October 04th, 2010 | Category: News,Real life stories,Swag,toys

The middle of this month celebrates my FOURTH year of blogging about sex, sexuality, erotica, gender, identity, nudity, rights, politics, sex toys, silly things, my relationships, sex tips, others’ relationships, and more. Yes, the Sex Blogger Calendar says three- that’s a mistake. It’s been four full years folks.

And what better way to celebrate than with some EPIC giveaways…and I’m talking EPIC. I’ve gotten almost a twenty companies that I’ve worked with over the past four years (or am working with now/in the near future) to donate items for this contest, and from porn to sex toys to accessories, I promise that these prizes are AWESOME!

What can you win?

We start with a gift from HotMoviesForHer.com, a female-run porn site that was the start of my career in the more “adult” industry. What are they offering? TWO 100 minutes packages of porn. That’s a LOT of minutes of porn!

Fascinations, who employes me as their residential sex educator, has been kind enough to offer up a $100 gift card, which is enough to get either a Pure Wand…or a Lelo Siri…or a whole bunch of other awesome sex toys!

Pink and White, whom I love dearly, is offering a Two Month, Level Two memberships to CrashPadSeries.com (I’m on it!) and a Two Months, Level One membership to their new gay boy site, HeavenlySpire.com.

Crash Pad Series

NoFauxxx, the awesome queer porn company run by Courtney Trouble, is putting up a FULL YEAR’s membership to NoFauxxx.com. I’m also on here!

Courtney Trouble        No Fauxxx

Babeland, one of the first sex positive toys stores and educational places is offering a Mini Morgasm kit — complete with their new book Moregasm, as well as a Fukoku vibrator, a massage candle, Babelicious lube and a Sonic cock ring!

Babeland

Crystal Delights, creators of those beautiful new crystal plugs (and so to be released wands) is giving me a beautiful Champange crystal butt plug for this!

Good Vibrations, a feminist and sex positive store with shops in CA and MA, and a sex toy website, is donating not one, not two, but THREE rabbit pearl vibrators (made of vinyl)!

Good Vibrations

NippleCharms.com is offering ONE set off non-piercing needed Nipple Rings, as well as TWO stick on Bindi Charms.

Trannywood Pictures, hot guy on guy porn (with both cis and trans men) is giving away a copy of their BRAND NEW film, Trannywood Gone Wild!

MyPleasure.com is offering up a beautiful vibrator from the Vida line; the Lussuria. It’s supposed to be pretty awesome!

SexToy.com and the lovely Domina Doll are putting together a special giveaway pack for this contest. I have no idea what is inside, but I know it’ll be awesome!

Liberator, the make of amazing sex furniture is thowing a Jaz into the ring. Heck, *I* don’t even have one of these!

Liberator

More porn from Early to Bed – a rocking feminist sex toy store in Chicago! They’re giving away Special Delivery, a locally made dyke porno…I want to see it!

Also donating a set of rocking Nipple Clamps is the fabulous feminist store Our Enigma in Salem, Oregon!

We’ve got a lovely donation from the Kama Sutra Closet, who is kind enough to provide a Shiri Zinn RED Ceramic dildo to give away! 

Can’t leave out one of my favorite toy makers, the wonderful Vixen Creations. They’ve offered up TWO TOYS! One Caramel Tex and one Purple Johnny. Hurray!

Aloha from Maui Kink, who as graciously given me 3 Toy Bag Guides (Playing with Taboo by Mollena Williams, Clips and Clamps by Jack Rinella and Canes and Caning by Janet Hardy) AND 2 x 15ft lengths of Natural Hemp Rope with Shears

This just in: Lelo is putting in a pair of their silky and smooth Etherea Cuffs, from their brand new accessories line!

Another last minute addition! Stockroom, that fabulous kink site, has thrown a pair of cuffs, and a beautiful flogger into the ring!

Another set of awesome items is dontated from Je Joue — a Sasi and a G-Ki! Each of these vibrators is amazing!

Instead of choosing just one winner for all of this, or trying to make packages, etc, I’m going to just use the random number generator to choose a winner for each item. If someone enters a lot in various ways, they may win multiple items. This way, I can pass on the sex-tastic love to as many people as possible! So there could be 20 winners, or even more!

How do you enter? The contest goes through October 31st (11:59pm PDT). There are lots and lots of ways to enter! For each entry, please post a comment below with a link to it (or your twitter name, FB name, FetLife name, etc), as I’ll be using a random generator to choose the winners. If you already follow/friend/fan me, just post below a comment with the name you use. Free shipping is included for  US winners only (obviously a moot point for the porn memberships/minutes) — international shipping must be paid by the winner.

1. MANDATORY: Please comment here with the top three items above that you’d like to win most! (1 Entry)

2. Become an Essin’ Em fan on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/EssinEm. (1 Entry)

3. Comment on my Essin’ Em fan page. (1 entry per day)

4. Follow me on Twitter. (1 entry)

5. Tweet about this contest on twitter — must include my @ name and a link here. (1 entry per day)

6. Friend me on FetLife. (1 entry)

7. Update your status on FetLife with a link to this page. (1 entry per day)

8. Write a blog post about this contest (5 entries, only one per person).

9. Visit the above sponsors’ sites and tell me what your favorite thing that they sell (besides what they’re giving away) is. (1 entry per sponsor, total).

10. Donate to my paypal, buy me something off my amazon wishlist, send me a present, etc (15 entries, and my eternal gratitude).

Contest begins now, so get started, and don’t forget, there are so many ways to enter, so get going!

-Essin’ Em

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Giveaway: An Orchid G Vibrator

September 13th, 2010 | Category: Swag,toys

 

While spring certainly isn’t sprungy, and fall isn’t quite making its way into the hot and deserty state of Arizona, flowers are always welcome in my life…and that includes orchids! More importantly, that includes the Orchid G vibrator, which is a slim line vibe with an awesome bulb at the end for fantastic G-spot stimulation. And thanks to Babeland, I’m giving one away! Thanks y’all.

How do you enter to win an Orchid G vibe? I need you to help my blog bloom with flowers, because I love them so much.

1st. Be 18+ (which you should be if you’re reading this).

2nd. Know that shipping is free only in the US – other wise, winner must pay.

3rd. Comment below with your favorite flower or flower combo (1 entry)

4th. RT this on twitter and then post here to show you’ve done so(1 entry per day). Example:

@EssinEm’s blog is blooming with her Orchid G giveaway (from @babeland_toys): http://essin-em.com/2010/09/giveaway-an-orchid-g-vibrator/

5th. Post link to here on FB. Comment here that you’ve done so (1 entry per day)

6th. Post link to here on FetLife. Let me know here you’ve done so (1 entry per day).

Deadline: September 21st, 2010, 11:59pm PDT.

And it’s time to bloom!

-Essin’ Em

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Butt Plug Winner!

February 21st, 2010 | Category: linkage,News,Swag,toys

In case you forgot about it, last week was the end of my glass butt plug contest. I had tons and tons of entries, both at the original post (in comments) and of course, on twitter. Thanks to everyone for entering this one!

The winner of the contest is Aida, who blogs over at Rainbows and Riding Crops and tweets as the Pledgemistress (currently locked, so I’m not linking).

If you didn’t win, SexToy.com has a ton of other awesome glass butt plugs and other rocking sex toys. Make sure you check them out to thank them.

Also, I’ll have another awesome contest in March.  I can’t give it all away yet, but it looks like it’ll involves some awesome porn. And I mean, really, who doesn’t love good porn?

Thanks for entering, and hope to see you back!

-Essin’ Em

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Glass Plug Contest

January 30th, 2010 | Category: amusing,linkage,News,Swag,toys

Hey all!

It’s been a while since I’ve had a contest on here – my apologies! Luckily for you, SexToy.com has provided a rocking blue glass butt plug for a giveaway.  Now, as we know, I’m not the biggest butt person, but a lot of you have been asking for more anal giveaway prizes, so here you go.  Tristan, this one is in honor of you, oh anal loving goddess!

What is it? If you win, you get this lovely blue glass plug (if you’re out of the states, you must pay shipping):

How can YOU win this very awesome plug (which, by the way, I think looks bigger in person than the picture does)?

Three ways! And yes, that means you can enter THRICE!

1) Tweet this phrase on twitter: “Holy moly! @EssinEm is giving away some butt love. http://essin-em.com/2010/01/glass-plug-contest. RT to enter and win!”

2) Become a fan of me on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/EssinEm, and then invite your friends by posting about the contest on your page, linking to my fan page (hint: you can use the @ trick, or put my fan page URL in it).

3) Leave a comment here about why you want to win a buttastic prize.

And I love you so much, I’ll even through some lube in there as well, so you get going as soon as you get it.

Deadline: Feb 14th, 11:59pm MST.

Three ways to enter, all super easy. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your lovers.

New to anal? Check out my anal basics post here.

-Essin’ Em

 

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Blogiversary Contest Winnnnnnnners!

November 30th, 2009 | Category: linkage,News in my life,Swag

Ok, you’ve waited.  I appreciate it much!  You voted – I appreciated that even more, since it was such a hard decision.  And now, without further ago, I present, my blogiversary contest winners:

The winner with the most correct answers is Juicy Justine. She wins prize pack one, which includes:

A FYN Foot long case in RED from For Your Nymphomation

A two month long, level 2 CrashPadSeries.com membership from Pink and White

A fantasy swing (worth $130!) from SexToy.com (winner will need to pay shipping)

A super fabulous Hitachi Magic Wand from Vibe Review

A Zeus Electrosex Deluxe Digital Power Box with Insertable Attachment from Extreme Restraints

Under the Bed Restraints from Babeland

The winner with the most creative answers is Heather_Daisy. Thanks for voting y’all! She wins prize pack two, which includes:

A FYN Foot long case in BLACK from For Your Nymphomation

A two month long, level 2 CrashPadSeries.com membership from Pink and White

A Bed Bindings restraint kit from SexToy.com (winner will need to pay shipping)

A Goliath Silicone Dildo from Vibe Review

A Zeus Electrogasm from Extreme Restraints

A Thigh Harness from Babeland

The winner who won the random number drawing is Garnet Joyce. She wins prize pack three, which includes:

A FYN Foot long case in PURPLE from For Your Nymphomation

A Tantus Ryder butt plug from SexToy.com (winner will need to pay shipping)

A bottle of Pjur Aqua water-based lubricant from Vibe Review

An Odyssey Tickler from Babeland.

A USB Charging Lelo Mia Vibrator available from www.GoodVibes.com.

Thank you again to the wonderful sponsors:

SexToy.com, Babeland, VibeReview,ExtremeRestraints, CrashPadSeries.com, GoodVibes.com and of course, the lovely For Your Nymphomation.

And thank YOU for your entries, re-posting, sharing, etc.  What a fun and fabulous contest!  I can’t wait for my next (smaller) contest on the blog — look for something fun and exciting in December..and hopefully, I’ll be around next fall for another blogiversary contest!

-Essin’ Em

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Pleasurists #52

November 10th, 2009 | Category: book review,linkage,pleasurists,review,Swag,toys

FOLKS – ONLY TWO MORE WEEKS TO ENTER MY BLOGIVERSARY CONTEST! - Don’t YOU want to win a sex swing, and butt blugs, and electric toys, and dildos, and porn and more? ENTER NOW!

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via looklook

 

Pleasurists is a round-up of the adult product and sex toy reviews that came out in the last seven days from bloggers all around the sex blogosphere. Did you miss Pleasurists #51? Read it all here. Do you have a review for Pleasurists #53? Submit it here before Sunday November 1st at 11:59pm PDT. Please re-post this list on your own blog if listed.

Note: Apologies for being late yet again, I was so hoping not to be this week. In case you don’t follow Pleasursts on twitter I was in the hospital for a few days and sans laptop. Sorry!

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

Madame Editrix

Scarlet Lotus St. Syr

Editor’s Pick

  • Tantus Vamp by Amber from Scarlet’s Letter

    • I love this toy! The color is rather unique to most other realistic dildos. The subtle sparkle of the silicone makes it pretty without being too loud and obnoxious. The ridges and texture of the shaft of the toy feels marvelous, and the slightly curved prominent head of the toy feels fantastic.

    Note: I am endlessly amused by the Tantus Vamp, plus it was just Halloween, and Amber’s great review was too good to pass up as an editor’s pick. I just wish Tantus would make a sparkly red one, I’d be all about it.

On to the reviews…

Vibrators

Dildos

Anal Toys

Toys for Cocks

Lube, Massage Oil, Bath Stuff, & etc.

BDSM/Fetish

Adult Books/Games

Adult Movies/Porn

Miscellaneous

 


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Pleasurists #51

October 28th, 2009 | Category: linkage,pleasurists,review,toys

 

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via slutsoft

 

Pleasurists is a round-up of the adult product and sex toy reviews that came out in the last seven days from bloggers all around the sex blogosphere. Did you miss Pleasurists #50? Read it all here. Do you have a review for Pleasurists #52? Submit it here before Sunday November 1st 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

Editor’s Pick

  • Liberator Axis by Nadia West

    • And when you’re not getting it on, you can use it as a back support as you sit up in bed. I think there’s many uses I can come up with for the axis, it’s just a question of creativity and time.

    Note: Not only do I think this review is wonderfully succinct and has a great comparison of the Axis and Wedge (something I’ve been wondering about) but I couldn’t help but love the suggestion above as I’m currently lounging against a Whirl and using a Ramp as a laptop table.

On to the reviews…

Vibrators

Dildos

Toys for Cocks

Lube, Massage Oil, Bath Stuff, & etc.

BDSM/Fetish

Adult Books/Games

Adult Movies/Porn

Sex Furniture

Storage

Lingerie

Miscellaneous

 


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Happy Blogiversary to ME!

October 18th, 2009 | Category: coming out,linkage,News,News in my life,Swag,toys

I turn three today. Well, to be more specific, Sexuality Happens does. And I’m having an AWESOME contest to celebrate!

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I’m having a preeeetty snazzy blogiversary contest. No, really.  A lot of the companies I’m affiliated with have stepped up to offer some kick as prizes.  I’ve got schwag from Sex Toy.com, Babeland, For Your Nympohmation, the Crash Pad Series, Good Vibrations, Extreme Restraints, Vibe Review, etc.  Please make sure you head over their their sites, and thank them for their freaking awesome donations.

How does this work? Below is the official Essin’ Em scavanger hunt.  Your mission, if you choose to accept it (and want the prizes…or are just bored), is to figure out the most possible answers. How? Any way you want. Many of them are here on www.Essin-Em.com, whether blog posts, or on pages, banners, etc.  Some of them, you may need to venture else where. You can ask people on Twitter, Facebook, Fetlife, etc. You can band together with other bloggers as a team (and share the prizes). You can google me. However you want to (short of showing up on my doorstep), you can find the answers.

Once you get all of the answers that you can, you needed to put up a blog post (if you don’t have a blog, you can put it up on facebook, livejournal, etc. If you don’t have ANY of those, email me, and we’ll work something out). In this post, write a little schtick about the contest and link to this page.  Then, post what you think all of the answers are. Finally, head back over here and leave a comment with a link to said post. Following that, you wait.

I’m giving y’all a MONTH to find the answers. A whole month.  Ergo, the deadline to post your post and comment here is 11:59 PM Mountain Standard Time on November 18, 2009.

There will be THREE prize packs awarded.

Prize pack one is for the entry that has the most CORRECT answers.

It will contain:

A FYN Foot long case in RED from For Your Nymphomation

A two month long, level 2 CrashPadSeries.com membership from Pink and White

A fantasy swing (worth $130!) from SexToy.com (winner will need to pay shipping)

A super fabulous Hitachi Magic Wand from Vibe Review

A Zeus Electrosex Deluxe Digital Power Box with Insertable Attachment from Extreme Restraints

Under the Bed Restraints from Babeland

 

Prize pack two is for the entry that had the most UNIQUE/ORIGINAL/CREATIVE answers.

It will contain:

A FYN Foot long case in BLACK from For Your Nymphomation

A two month long, level 2 CrashPadSeries.com membership from Pink and White

A Bed Bindings restraint kit from SexToy.com (winner will need to pay shipping)

A Goliath Silicone Dildo from Vibe Review

A Zeus Electrogasm from Extreme Restraints

A Thigh Harness from Babeland

 

Prize pack three will be drawn randomly of all the entries, so that everyone has a chance to win something.

It will contain:

A FYN Foot long case in PURPLE from For Your Nymphomation

A Tantus Ryder butt plug from SexToy.com (winner will need to pay shipping)

A bottle of Pjur Aqua water-based lubricant from Vibe Review

An Odyssey Tickler from Babeland.

A USB Charging Lelo Mia Vibrator available from www.GoodVibes.com,

 

Essin’ Em Scavenger Hunt

How old I am:

My real name:

The names of my cats:

The number of lettered partners (ex: Q) I have had on my blog, and list them:

Five of the companies I do review for (or have in the past):

Where my first job was in the “adult industry”:

My number one porn star crush:

What happens everytime I get another 100 followers on Twitter:

Who created my Facebook Fan Page:

One blogger who helped me to find/understand my Femme identity:

How many tattoos I have, and what they are (bonus if you know their meanings):

The other country have I lived in:

Number of states I’ve presented/taught in (bonus for which ones):

My absolute favorite toy ever is:

Two of my favorite kinky activities:

Eight sex/uality bloggers I have met in person:

Three issues I feel VERY strongly on:

Five of my top ten toys/lube/etc:

Three of the four porn companies I’ve shot for:

The color I am allergic to:

Two of my favorite colors (bonus for all three):

My degrees are in:

One of my favorite body parts:

What is special about my tongue:

Site my advice panel is on:

Site my column is on:

 

BONUS QUESTIONS:

The number of comments on this blog:

The number of posts on this blog:

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Pleasurists #46

September 23rd, 2009 | Category: book review,linkage,review,Swag,toys

 

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via allinone

 

Pleasurists is a round-up of the adult product and sex toy reviews that came out in the last seven days from bloggers all around the sex blogosphere. Did you miss Pleasurists #45? Read it all here. Do you have a review for Pleasurists #47? Submit it here before Sunday September 20th 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

Editor’s Pick

  • G-Twist by Shanna Germain

    • The battery housing is slightly confusing — you have to press the sides in really hard in order to open it (I struggled with it for so long, I thought about asking my neighbor for help, but since I’ve not said anything more to him than “hello” and “oh, it’s really okay that your dog barked all night long, no worries,” I figured that showing up at his doorstep with a pseudo-cock, a couple of batteries and a helpless look wasn’t the world’s best idea).

    Editor’s Note: While there have been a lot of G-Twist reviews lately from all the new GoodVibes Brand Ambassadors I think this one far surpasses the others (including my own). Not to say the others are bad, perish the thought, but just because this one actually made me smile at times and even chuckle at others.

On to the reviews…

Vibrators

Dildos

Anal Toys

Toys for Cocks

Lube, Massage Oil, Bath Stuff, & etc.

BDSM/Fetish

Adult Books

Adult Movies/Porn

Sex Furniture

Lingerie

Miscellaneous

 


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Pleasurists #45

September 09th, 2009 | Category: book review,linkage,pleasurists,review,Swag,toys

 

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From ruero.

 

Pleasurists is a round-up of the adult product and sex toy reviews that came out in the last seven days from bloggers all around the sex blogosphere. Did you miss Pleasurists #44? Read it all here. Do you have a review for Pleasurists #46? Submit it here before Sunday September 13th 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

Editor’s Pick

  • The Ethical Slut by Beautiful Dreamer

    • “How many people have you had sex with?” A few guys answered, I cheekily put in “I can just barely count them on my fingers and toes.” One of the guests, for whatever reason, yelled “Damn, your girlfriend is a slut!”. Aidan calmly & cooly replied, “Yes, she likes sex, where is there a problem in that?”

    After all, my self pleasure and self respect should be all that counts. Not a number, not the kind of relationship I’m in, nor my sexuality. I am a slut. This book not only empowers that, it celebrates it.

On to the reviews…

Vibrators

Dildos

Anal Toys

Toys for Cocks

Lube, Massage Oil, Bath Stuff, & etc.

BDSM/Fetish

Adult Books

Adult Movies/Porn

Storage

Lingerie

Miscellaneous

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