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Archive for June 13th, 2006

Lifetime Achievement Award for Candida Royalle

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

candida.jpgOur hats off to Candida Royalle, who earned a Lifetime Achievement Award for her pioneering work in women’s erotica at the first Feminist Porn Awards held in Toronto, Canada. If you are a first time porn viewer, or uneasy about mainstream porn, check out Candida Royalle’s work such as Eyes of Desire 2 or My Surrender. She was the first mainstream pornographer to make a career of creating quality straight couples’ movies. Her films (marketed under Femme Productions) feature female characters with full lives, jobs, and personalities—they aren’t just interchangeable bodies. A well-deserved achievement, Candida talents never cease to amaze usfirst with her adult movies, and then with her line of tasteful, female friendly toys (see the Ultime, Liberte and Energie). Last year she wrote the wonderfully-titled book How to Tell a Naked Man What to Do. We can’t wait to see what she comes up with next!

 

World’s Oldest Condom

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

condomI once read that the Marquis de Sade used to make dildos out of wood and wax way back when before they had silicone. And of course, Wahls and Magic Wands are modern versions of some of the very first vibrators.

So what about safer sex? Well, the oldest surviving condom in the world (pictured) has gone on display in an Austrian museum.

The reusable condom dates back to 1640 and is completely intact, as is its original users’ manual, written in Latin. The manual suggests that users immerse the condom in warm milk prior to its use to avoid diseases. The antique, found in Lund in Sweden, is made of pig intestine and is one of 250 ancient objects related to sex on display at the Tirolean County Museum in Austria this summer. Check it out here.

Who else is talking about this? Check out these blogs:

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