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Karmasheetra Combines the Fun of Twister with the Fun of Sex.

During a recent visit to nsfw, I came across this exciting new game. It may not be fun for the whole family, but it does promise to be fun for the couple that uses it.

From the Karmasheetra website:

“Through its unique design, the Karmasheetra guides its owner to try those naughty positions that you’ve always wanted to. No more awkward moments where you’re not quite sure where to put those hands and feet!”

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Karmasheetra Combines the Fun of Twister with the Fun of Sex.

By Dave Shortt • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Sexology

“Urban Dr. Ruth” Alexyss K Tylor, Launches Sex Site

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Alexyss K Tylor has been referred to as the “Urban Dr. Ruth” for her candid and often humorous advice on all things sexual. She gained fame with “The Alexyss Tylor Show,” which aired on Atlanta Public Access television. Her show was cancelled after receiving numerous complaints from members of the community. Since that time, she’s become a YouTube sensation and is further capitalizing on her success by launching a new website which she describes as a “network designed to talk about spiritual sexuality”.

What she lacks in formal education she makes up with real-life experience and street smarts -something she’s got lots of after literally living on the streets. At 19, Alexyss was kicked out of her home by her mother when it was discovered that Alexyss was having a lesbian relationship. It seems the mother-daughter relationship has mended, since her mother (who is an ordained minister) often appeared on Alexyss’ show where she responded disapprovingly to the topics being discussed.

Alexyss K. Tylor is also an author, musician and founder of a non-profit organization for abused women.

You can visit her new website here.

Or watch this clip…

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“Urban Dr. Ruth” Alexyss K Tylor, Launches Sex Site

By Dave Shortt • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Home, Sexology

Man bashing made fun: Girl Power Video Game

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Do you have unresolved anger towards men? Maybe you’re in a relationship with one, and you need to unleash some pent up anger. Well wait no more -the Girl Power Video Game lets players smash jumping penises for points..

Play the game here.

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Man bashing made fun: Girl Power Video Game

By Dave Shortt • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Sexology

Fetish of the Week - Telephone Scatalogia

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Did you ever see John Water’s film, Serial Mom? It’s one of our favorites, here at blurbberry. In it, Kathleen Turner plays this psycho crazy b***h mom, who kills people if they get in the way of her family’s well-being. It’s truly inspiring. Anyway, in the film, Turner gets immense enjoyment from pranking her neighbour. Watch the clip:

 

Turner’s character is not alone. While she does not seem to get off sexually from these phone calls, numerous people do attain great sexual pleasure from making prank calls.

Known as Telephone Scatalogia, this fetish involves obtaining sexual arousal and gratification by making obscene calls. Individuals don’t actually need to make the phone call, it seems; the fetish is also characterized by a recurrent, intense sexual urge or fantasy to make the obscene call.

Telephone scatalogia, or telephonicophilia, is theorized as a form of exhibitionism in some circles and an impulse control problem in others. Recipients of obscene calls may feel revolted, victimized, manipulated, or violated… which is what the caller is looking for, really. The scatalogist is usually aroused if the recipient expresses his or her feelings of fright, shock, or anger. If the caller does not think that the recipient is annoyed, then he or she may not call again. 

There are three types of obscene telephone calls. In the most common type, the caller may breathe heavily or describe sexual activities, particularly his masturbatory action, in explicit detail.

The second type of obscene call is one in which the caller threatens the listener and instructs him or her to undress, masturbate, or engage in some form of sexual behavior. One such case involved a Philadelphia-area man who was convicted of making hundreds of threatening obscene calls to women. He told each woman that he was holding her husband hostage, and to guarantee her husband’s safety, she must engage in sex with her children so the caller could listen.

In the third type of obscene call, the caller tries to convince the listener to reveal intimate details of his or her sexual behaviors, often stating that he is conducting a survey of sexual practices for an institute or university.

Often, regardless of the type of call, the caller may sound friendly or recognizable (as Turner does in Serial Mom), manipulating the recipient into responding or carrying on a conversation, before unleashing the sexually-inspired language. 

But, while the clip above and the idea of making prank calls might seem hilarious and kind of exciting, it is considered a criminal offense pretty much everywhere. Recipients of obscene calls are advised to simply hang up on obscene callers, and to report the incident to the telephone company and/or the police. Modern living has certainly cut into the practice, of course. As more households have Caller ID, the telephone scatalogist is limited to telephone booths, and prepaid cell phones.

A healthier form of telephone scatalogia, and one that will most probably not get anyone in trouble, is phone sex. Talking dirty and nasty to an obliging person on the other end can be an extremely great turn-on. You can have phone sex with your partner, meet someone online by specifying that you are looking to have phone sex, or, call up a phone sex service. Either way, phone sex can be HOT HOT HOT!! 

Source: hu-berlin

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Fetish of the Week - Telephone Scatalogia

By Eli • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Fetish of the Week, Home, Sexology

Do-It-Yourself Erotic Photography

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Anyone with a camera, a willing subject, and a dirty mind can produce erotic photography. Regardless of the motivation - whether you are wanting to spice up your relationship, wanting to improve the odds on an online dating service, or you may simply want some good ‘reading material’ - the following practical tips offer a chance to take hot photos and get those sexual juices flowing.

We take you through the necessary steps to complete a successful photo shoot, starting with coming up with a Concept, creating the appropriate Setting, including how to work with Lighting, and finally, discuss Photo editing. And we didn’t think it would be right to offer advice on DIY erotic photography without trying it out ourselves. We were lucky enough to have someone willing to expose himself for a sample photo shoot (see the gallery above).

Concept
Unless the image of someone doing dishes or sitting on the couch watching TV turns you on (which it might), you’ll want to come up with a concept for your shoot. A certain level of role-playing is involved when taking erotic photos. It doesn’t have to be cliché, unless of course that’s what you are after. Think of situations that might turn you or your subject on.

We explored with our camera a fantasy in which a business dinner went terribly right. We imagined a business owner bringing a potential new client to a high-end restaurant, to entice him with good food and wine, and undoubtedly, his charm and sex appeal. After a successful dinner and a copious amount of wine, the sexual appetite built up between the business owner and his dinner guest, our subject. Our shoot occurs after dinner, with the business owner inviting his, now, new client back to his house, and once there… the clothes are ripped off.

Setting
The setting should be used to reinforce the concept. It could be indoors or outdoors. You may want to include props like wigs, sex toys, uniforms, etc.
We used several props for our shoot including a fake fireplace, plants, shag rug, and business suit.

Lighting
Lighting is key when it comes to erotic photography. Never use flat lighting such as two lights in front of the model. Use lighting on a 45 degree angle or from the side to achieve a wrap around effect of light on the model’s body. Some lighting issues can be resolved if you have photo editing software (see below).

You’ll definitely need a DIY Lighting Kit. Professional lighting kits are ridiculously expensive, but a quick trip to your local hardware store will get you the three (or more) lights with stands, reflector board, and power cables you’ll need for a successful shoot. For our shoot we purchased two halogen work lamps with stands for around $50 each and one without a stand for $12. We also purchased some insulation foam for reflectors, but we didn’t end up using it. The stand-less units are not ideal for your main lights but it can be useful for fill lighting.

For reflectors, use any of the following: windshield sunshade, sheet of foamcore, polystyrene sheet, whiteboard, survival blanket, stiff cardboard, or for the more economically minded, tin foil on cardboard. We also found that an umbrella can work wonders when you need to reduce glare. Just place the umbrella in such a way that you can see the light directly through the camera lens.

Try out the interactive flash simulator below to learn about the basic 3-point lighting setup

Photo editing
Much of what you lack in photography skills can be overcome using photo editing software such as Photoshop. You can make your photos come alive by manipulating the levels of hue and saturation, and brightness and contrast. Use the cropping tool to improve composition.
The two photos below illustrate how you can take an amateur looking photo and improve it using photo editing software. I cropped the photo so it no longer looked like the subject was dancing or walking and used the desaturation and brightness tool to create a moonlight effect.

 

 

Notes:

  • Plug the lights into various outlets to lighten the load.
  • Lights get hot. Do not touch or you might burn yourself.
  • Legal contracts may not be sexy, but you should consider a Model Release Form so you have protection if your photos end up all over the Internet. This is especially true for celebrities. Click here to download a sample form from iStock.

If you use our tips, and want to share your results with us for posting, we will gladly show the world your successes! Email us ‘contact  AT  blurbberry.com’.

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By Dave Shortt • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Home, Sexology

Sexual Fetish of the Week - Furries & Plushies

The love of the doll. The feelings of comfort and protection when holding a stuffed animal… knowing that the big monkey sitting in your bedroom’s corner is not only your confidante, but the only thing that will ever really, truly, understand you, and the depths of your soul.

We were all there once, feeling close to dolls. We were all once Plushies, or Plushophiles, getting great pleasure and comfort from squeezing, touching and caressing a stuffed animal. But for some, the love continued into adulthood, and for some of those, the love turned into a sexual pleasure.

For the Plushie sexual fetishist, holding and caressing the stuffed animal no longer relieves sadness and provides a sense of closeness, it now helps him or her cum. 

But, there’s even a more unique Plushophile. There is the Furry, the one who attains great pleasure from the anthropomorphized stuffed animal, those animals with human qualities such as speech and thinking. And, as there are sexual Plushies in the Plushie world, there are the sexual Furries in the Furry world. Whether dressing up in a Raccoon outfit, or getting fucked up the ass by a man dressed up as a fox, Furry sexual fetishists get off sexually on the mixing of animal and human being in a big fursuit. 

The other day, my friends, T.H. and G.K., and I were talking about Furries, the sexual ones, and I realized that Furries are an extremely misunderstood group. We wondered, how does it develop? And, how does one go about converting a big animal costume into a fucking machine?

George Gurley writes, “There are many kinds of furries, but they all seem to have a few things in common. Something happened to them after a youthful encounter with Bugs Bunny or Scooby Doo or the mascot at the pep rally. They took refuge in cartoons or science fiction. After being bombarded by tigers telling them what cereal to eat, camels smoking cigarettes, cars named after animals, airplanes with eyes and smiles, shirts with alligators, they decided their fellow human beings were not nearly so interesting as those animal characters.

“But it wasn’t so liberating, having these intense feelings, when you thought you were the only person on earth who had them. The second big revelation for most furries came when they got on the Internet. Not only were there others like them, they learned, but they were organized! They started having conventions… even summer camps.

Gurley discusses those who get sexual pleasure from the fursuit. He says, “The furry group has its own customs and language. “Yiff” means sex, “yiffy” means horny or sexual, and “yiffing” means mating. “Fur pile” denotes a bunch of furries lying on top of one another, affectionately, while skritching. “Spooge” is semen — a possible outcome of a fur pile. A “furvert” is anyone who is sexually attracted to mascots and such.”

As you would assume, preparing a fursuit for use during sex might prove difficult. Instructions can be found here. But, there’s a company (Canadian, not surprisingly), called Noble Productions, that will sell you a hot fursuit for $1500, plus taxes, plus all necessary holes.

And, before you judge these people, read the wise words of Dan Savage: ”We’re pro-sex here at Savage Love Inc., and decidedly pro-fetish. As far as we’re concerned, there’s nothing wrong with getting off on fursuit sex or fucking stuffed animals or anything else that doesn’t involve grave bodily harm, real animals, children, or Ann Coulter.”

For all you male gay furries, check out fursuitsex.com. We just couldn’t find a lesbian site, so if anyone knows of one, please tell us so we can update this post. Here’s just a piece of bad news reporting from some city in the USA on Furries!

For all you male gay furries, check out fursuitsex.com. We just couldn’t find a lesbian site, so if anyone knows of one, please tell us so we can update this post. 

Visit previous ‘Sexual Fetish of the Week.’ Balloons

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Sexual Fetish of the Week - Furries & Plushies

By Eli • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Fetish of the Week, Home, Sexology

Queer Power: Sex Video Game

Queer Power is a video game that invites players to fuck instead of fight. It allows you to have sex with any gender as any gender, or no gender at all.

The game was among five juried submissions in the installation category of the ninth installment of Signal and Noise, a Vancouver-based festival of avant-garde, interdisciplinary art hosted by Vivo Media Arts Centre, Apr 17-19.

Be sure to READ THE INSTUCTIONS because it’s not completely intuitive. 

or you can play the game here

 

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By Dave Shortt • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Sexology

Sexual Fetish Of The Week - Balloons

from www.balloon-guys.com

This week’s fetish is the balloon. I remember being a kid, and there was this ‘other kid’ who simply loved being the one to get to all the parties early to help the birthday boy hang up the balloons. This kid would pull and stretch the balloon, slowly blow it up while taking deep long breaths in order to have enough for the next one, tie the knot with his fingers, rub the balloons through his hair, feeling the static build and lift his hair away from his scalp, and…

So, ya, this week’s fetish is the balloon. Balloon fetishism is when a person has a sexual fascination with balloons. Often referring to themselves as looners, balloon fetishists are diverse in their fascination with the balloon. Looners are gay, straight, or bi.

There are four phases of the balloon that might sexually arouse the looner: inflation (blowing it up by some means), admiration (looking at it), interaction (touching, moving, watching, smelling), and destruction (deflation, popping, releasing). 

The practices of the fetishist fall into two distinct categories, poppers and non-poppers. The popper is primarily aroused by the balloon bursting, either through the sexual tension involved in anticipating it pop, and/or in the sensory experience of it. Some looners like blowing the balloon until it pops, often enjoyed when one’s partner does it. Some looners enjoy various forms of erotic popping with objects, by either pins, knives, and the like. And some enjoy watching others sexually stimulate the balloon until popping, with such methods as sitting, hugging, squeezing, stomping, and pinching. In all these cases the popper’s primary interest is in building anticipation and the sexual tension of bursting at any time.

The non-popper, actually abhors destroying the balloon, and is much more sexually aroused by admiring and interacting with it. Interacting with the balloon can range from blowing it up and holding it, to watching others interact with balloons, to placing the balloon underneath the genitals and bouncing on it.

If you’re a loonist and into men manipulating balloons for you, check out BalloonGuys.com. If you’re a loonist and into women manipulating balloons for you, check out LoonerVision. There are many other sites. Simply google ‘balloon’ and ‘fetish’ and pop away!!

Check out this video, featuring a hard core looner. 

 

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Sexual Fetish Of The Week - Balloons

By Eli • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Fetish of the Week, Home, Sexology

Masturbation No Longer Linked to Blindness, It May Actually Prevent Prostate Cancer

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We’ve come a long way from the days when jacking off caused hairy palms, blindness, and acne. Today, masturbation is considered healthy, normal, and important to sexual development. Recent research even suggests it can decrease men’s chances of getting prostate cancer. 

A recent study, by Australian Cancer Council Victoria, provides evidence that masturbation cuts the risk of developing prostate cancer by 30%. The study’s main author, Graham Giles says that  jacking off provides the chance to ‘wash out’ carcinogenic materials that build up in the gland. The prostate supplies fluid that is part of cum, thus, when someone masturbates and successfully completes the pleasurable experience, the carcinogenic materials are flushed away.

Researchers interviewed 2250 men about their sexual habits. Almost half of them had developed prostate cancer, while the others had not. They found that those who retrospectively reported masturbating at least 5 times a week, especially when they were in their 20’s, were 30% less likely to develop the cancer later on in life. 

For those wondering whether having sex offers the same benefits, the answer is no, according to Giles. Increased sexual intercourse is related to increased risk of sexually transmittable infections, and STI’s are related to increased chances of prostate cancer. So, unless you only have one partner your entire life and you only cum with, or in, that person, EVER, then maybe that would be related to decreased risk of cancer. But who the hell has only one sex partner, especially in their 20’s. 

For those wondering whether women are offered the same risk prevention by masturbating, best to tell you now, before one of your friends does. Women don’t have prostate glands.

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Masturbation No Longer Linked to Blindness, It May Actually Prevent Prostate Cancer

By Eli • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Body, Health + Fitness, Home, Sexology

SEXUAL FETISH OF THE WEEK: Robot Fetishism


Robot fetishism (also known as technosexuality) is the term used to describe an attraction to humanoid or non-humanoid robots.

I once dated man that was so emotionally distant that I wondered if I peeled back his skin if I’d see a labyrinth of steel and wires. And I must admit, his aloofness was a turn on. 

So for that reason, along with my  love of the iPhone, I can almost comprehend this week’s fetish, Robot Fetishism.

Robot Fetishism may sound like a thing of the future, but it’s already a multi-million dollar business in Japan, a nation in love with its Gadgets. One company is already producing life-sized Honeydoll sexbots for men, which cost $7,000. Among it’s many desirable features is the attachable silicone teeth that enhance oral sex which they describe this way on their site, ”Honey Flavor is the head part exclusively for oral sex, which can be used without tearing the doll. This feature is the pioneer in this field.”

The future appears much friendlier than we imagined. 

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SEXUAL FETISH OF THE WEEK: Robot Fetishism

By Dave Shortt • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: Fetish of the Week, Home, Sexology