OhMiBod plug-in vibrators: turn your mp3 player jam into a solo freakfest

2008-09-05T16:58:00.000-07:00

Your iPod may hook you up with a built-in phone, 'net browser, camera and organizer, but can it make you come?

OhMiBod, a new line of sleek little vibrators that plug into your mp3 player, buzzes your what-nots "to the rhythm and intensity of the music," according to OhMiBod's website. That's right, a music-reading robot sex toy has been invented to let you imagine Silk reunited and is singing "Freak Me (I Wanna Lick U Up and Down)" only to you.

For $69.00, you can buy the original OhMiBod, or the Naughtibod, which is wireless, curvier and comes in 4 colors, or the Gspot, a version of the regular plug-in OhMiBod but with a curved-up tip.

But wait, OhMiBod also offers BodiTalk, a vibrator that's activated by calls to your cell phone! There's also the BodiTalk Escort, a mini-vibe with a hand-held control that you can discreetly tuck into your junk for those tedious bus rides. As your ringing phone "triggers a unique 3 pattern vibrating sequence that lasts for the entire call," the company promises it will "turn any call into an orgasmic surprise"! Great when you're aurally sexing your long-distance lover, deeply disturbing when your grandmother calls. And she will.

Masturbatory phone calls aside, the music-powered vibes combine the modern woman's most beloved pasttimes. The company went ahead and marketed the line exclusively for women, even though the last time I checked, legions of males would gladly spend $69.00 to feel "A Whole Lotta Love" electrifying their prostate.

Instead, the website and its products are slathered in pink and represented by a virtual spokesmodel named "Suki," whose stilettoed, pink Apple-rip-off silhouette not only embodies the feminine orgasm-trinity of clitoral stimulation, music and fantasizing, but is a "symbol of liberation" for us all. Their website also features Club Vibe, a magazine-style online club for OhMiBod afficionados, which of course includes a blog for the truly creative, hilarious and inappropriate masturbation stories this device is sure to engender.

Club Vibe's latest is an interview/product promotion with Khia, of "My Neck, My Back" infamy. Sample:
"How can people use music to enhance their sex lives, both solo and with partners?
Solo, they can go out buy my new album Nasti Muzik and get the OhMiBod hook it up and do the damn thing! LOL But naw seriously music helps out with the stroke. Ya'll know..and I'm just not talking about the men. It helps you get into the mood and keep it all going, rhythm and all."

And hey, you can enjoy OhMiBod's wares even without an mp3 player or cell phone- they also offer delightfully labeled "acsexsories," such as: sequined star-shaped pasties (not too early to plan for Fetish Ball, ladies) and "Fascinator" faux fur/satin plush throws, spelled "throes," of course, for your erotic sessions- "save the sheets." In addition to being a great stripper skin protector for floorshows, I guess these also wash easy. The company even sells OhMiBod t-shirts, to show the world just how much you love to listen to music or talk on the phone and get off.

What do you think, desirable pleasure prop or feminized gimmick?
Tell us.

OhMiBod website: http://www.ohmibod.com
"Freak Me": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIzb32F6ZLA

I Wanna Defy the Logic of all Sex Laws

2008-02-24T13:11:00.000-08:00

It started with a preoccupation with sex toys- anything phallic in shape or vagina sleeve-y in nature- and mainly a burning desire to see the words "vagina sleeve" in print. To publish real words about sex, that was the desire that so often throws dildos into The Campanil and by turns launched this humble blog.

When we talk about sex, it shocks us, maybe makes us blush, or laugh, or feel a secret little "whooosh" to you-know-where, but the urge behind it is as mundane as grocery shopping, as natural as the kink in our pubic hair.

We all talk about it- so why not share and explore our feelings and experiences, questions, criticisms, rave reviews, diatribes, or whatever it is about our bodies and the sexy things we do with them that makes us tick, among our own sexy and savvy community- online?

Our sexualities, attraction, arousal, activity and release- they can make us feel pleasure, intimacy, power. There is power in ruling your own body, power in giving yourself pleasure and there is an exchange or exertion of power in sex between human beings. Likewise, these interactions and even conversations about them are controlled by an external power, whether you call it social mores and cultural "respectability," a sex-obsessed conservative agenda (see Bill O'Reilly) or whoever is making the laws now.

Sex laws- they keep our official appearance Protestant-respectable, our moralists influential and our censors in business, but they also serve to manage and limit our access to a still-uncharted world of sexual power, or protect us from being consumed by it. Along with the positives we take from sex, we are susceptible to the dark side- exploitation, feelings of pain, shame, isolation.

Sex laws continuously evolve as power to define sex and obscenity, even control bodies, trades hands and passes through generations, and must adapt with breathtaking speed as the technology of sex evolves and explodes faster than our fantasies can generate it.

This is a space to speak truth to power in a non-judgemental, pan-sexual, queer-inclusive, sex-positive, supportive, youthful and semi-anonymous environment, however we choose to create it. Our goal is for this blog to be a safe resource for Mills community members to discuss, learn, question, celebrate and self-express.

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OhMiBod plug-in vibrators: turn your mp3 player jam into a solo freakfest

I Wanna Defy the Logic of all Sex Laws