Eden Fantasys is a woman-positive, sex-positive sex toy shop you can trust–but they are much more than merely a sex toy retailer. They are a welcoming, diverse, open-minded community full of inspiring resources, a blog and an online magazine. This holiday season, Eden Fantasys is also giving folks loads of ideas for holiday gifts and (adult) stocking stuffers.
The Chocolates Sweet Spot Kit ($32.99) is the perfect holiday gift for the special woman in your life. It contains a little something for everyone which can be used alone, or all at once.
The kit includes a traditional vibe, Pocket Rocket and a bullet-style vibrator all in metallic brown color that shimmers and matches the bottle of chocolate flavored lotion perfectly! This is definitely a kit that will let your sweet experience something truly sweet of her own and it also provides some great starters for foreplay, especially when you bring out the chocolate flavored lotion.
The traditional vibe and bullet-style vibrator have multiple speeds for enhanced and drawn out pleasure and the Pocket Rocket has one speed, but I really wish it also had multiple speeds; that is what would have brought my rating up to a 5-star, instead of 4. In my “research,” I found that while the bullet-style vibrator was fun at first, once things really got going, I couldn’t feel its intensity in me as much as I did when I first started playing with it, but that could definitely vary from woman to woman and I’m more of the oral persuasion when it comes to the most intense pleasure–and on that note, the Pocket Rocket is my new best friend. It is hands down one of my favorite toys now and it ranked pretty high up there in just the first time I used it. The chocolate flavored lotion is definitely lotion that I would use for very light, erotic massaging or especially a hand job and the taste is a little odd. Although I can definitely taste the chocolate flavoring in it, it kind of shocks your mouth when you first taste it.
Overall, this is a fabulous gift for the special woman in your life that you’d like to surprise with a night, or nights of fun, adult play.
This holiday season there are a myriad of gift items that are hot, hot, hot! But now more than ever before, games are in super high demand. Best game titles of the year like Little Big Planet, Call of Duty 4 and Fallout 3 are some big favorites and titles like Rock Band and Guitar Hero have become staples for the past few holiday seasons. But there are also a lot of great online games that will appease the little gamer in your household without you having to take on an abundance of stress this holiday season looking all over the place for these hot ticket items.
In most cases, once someone completes a game and has solved all the puzzles and has been named victorious in the game they’ve been playing, it takes a long time for people to get the interest in that game back again, but online games have an appeal (and can also be very, very addicting) that they will actually hold the attention of your game-player for many months to come. I know I personally have a Playstation 3 and have played it maybe a handful of times in the year I’ve had it. However, I play online games a few times a day and with games like Burger Shop, Bejeweled 2 which every member of my family plays every free moment they have, and the beloved Diner Dash and every variation of that game that has come out in the past few years, they really end up having more of an appeal to game players of all ages.
So this holiday season, when your children are asking for those hot ticket games, you can also keep in mind that there are numerous online games (we’re talking like hundreds and maybe even thousands of different online games here) that they will also love and you can have them ready on your computer for Christmas morning without even leaving the house–or your computer, for that matter! How’s that for some hassle-free holiday shopping?
Holiday gift shopping season has officially begun, but regardless of the myriad of deals going on today and that will continue to go on until Monday, a lot of people are still stumped for the perfect holiday gift for their families, friends or co-workers if your company has a Secret Santa or you just want to give a co-worker who has helped you out quite a bit throughout the year a little something special. Luckily, there is a gift that anyone would love–Prepaid credit cards are a universal gift that allows the person who receives it to use it for something they really want or need without all the hassle of just coming out and asking them what they would like to receive, which many people do not give clear answers on most of the time, anyway!
Every holiday season I receive a good handful of gift cards and they end up sitting in my wallet until the next year because most of the time, they are for stores that I either don’t shop at or don’t have access to where I live and since these gift cards are coming from an array of states across the country, where a lot of my family is scattered, they really don’t know what I have access to, especially considering I happen to live in a farm town that has access to pretty much nothing! So prepaid credit cards would be an ideal to gift for me and a great deal of other people who don’t have the time or the resources to shop at the store in which they receive gift cards from and the gift-receiver also has the option to shop at any store that accepts a Visa card, which is pretty much all of them.
Cut your holiday shopping stress in half and pick up a few prepaid credit cards for your loved ones–Just make sure to read the terms of the cards you pick up so you know if they have any annual fees or if and when money starts being deducted from the balance if someone doesn’t use it for a few months.
EO Products is impressive in every way. They put people and the planet before profits and choose to serve the wordl by way of mindful actions, by providing natural, sustainable and authentic personal care products. They work with and support a myriad of different organizations and relief funds and truly care about the people who they make their products for. I have come across very few companies that perform in the way they do and for that, I highly respect them not only as a caring and responsible company, but also as a company that produces some of the highest quality personal care items for men.
While I am certain that all of their products meet this level of quality, I had the opportunity to give my partner an early Christmas gift–the EO For Him Gift Set ($53.94 $45.84). This gift set includes all of the staples your man needs every day, including rosemary and mint volumizing shampoo and conditioner, grapefruit and mint body lotion and shower gel, a pink grapefruit and peppermint exfoliating bar soap and tea tree and lemon shave cream and it is all contained within a beautiful wooden gift basket. I absolutely love that their shampoo and conditioner is volumizing, especially since the volume and thickness of men’s hair tends to be not so full and thick as they age, so this gives it that little boost. EO’s pink grapefruit and peppermint bar soap is a great exfoliant, I actually stole it from my partner a few times to scrub away dry and rough skin patches that pop up every year around this time, so ladies, while he may not like that you’re using his “super special man stuff,” it works just as well for us too!
Being a bath and beauty product junkie, I do see a great deal of women’s bath and body products with a shortage of products made especially for men, so I was thrilled to see that EO Products keeps the men in mind and has this special gift available for the special men in our life who also need a little pampering and it’s also a great price for the quality you’re receiving.
Members of my family are pretty scattered throughout the country, but I remember on quite a few occasions when a group of them would come to visit for some dinner, holiday or other special occasion, there would be a kids table present.
Having a table especially for the children for any holiday meal is a great idea. Kids won’t be very interested in the grown up conversation happening at the main table and it also gives children a great opportunity to bond with the other children in their families. But even with a table especially for the kids, they are likely to get bored, which is why it is always a great idea to put some activities on their table.
Here is some great kids table inspiration. I love that the tablecloth is just a sheet of butcher paper that can be drawn on and I especially love the drawn placemats! Put some crayons in a few cups or small pot holders and let the kids go to town on the placemats while they eat their holiday dinner. Cleanup will be a breeze, too!
Miss Brittany’s Organic Preschool Fun Dough (deluxe set, $29.95) is an absolute must-have for young children. Every child has fond memories of spending hours creating pizzas, people and pies with Play-Doh, but Organic Fun Dough lets your kids create completely organically–even the packaging is made from recycled materials. It is made purely of simple ingredients including filtered water, organic flour, Mediterranean sea salt, organic canola oil, kosher cream of tartar, organic vitamin c and non-toxic USA-made watercolor. Although the recommended age for this product is 2 and up, I would definitely recommend this for kids who have hit the 12-month mark and on; even if your child has a fascination with tasting their toys, because Miss Brittany’s Organic Preschool Fun Dough is non-toxic and of course, made with completely organic ingredients, so it isn’t going to make your child sick or harm them in any way.
We received Miss Brittany’s Organic Preschool Fun Dough Deluxe Gift Set that included three different colors of fun dough, a kid-size wood rolling pin, four wooden shape stampers in the shapes of a leaf, star, heart and apple, and also a kid-size organic apron printed with the words ‘Organically Awesome!’ and it really is! I must admit that I got to playing with the Organic Fun Dough before the kids got a hold of it. I can explain those weird looks on your faces away because I did receive a note saying that the fun dough does have a tendency to be a little sticky at first; Miss Brittany recommends refrigerating the dough before use for a firm consistency, which is what I did so it wouldn’t be too sticky to mold with.
The kids had a great time playing with Miss Brittany’s Organic Fun Dough, it held their attention for far longer than most of the other toys we have for them here and while it was a little sticky when they were playing with it, they had a ball with it and also with commenting on its stickiness because sometimes, kids just like to get their hands a little messy and there’s nothing wrong with that!
Tristan Taormino is the first adult film director and producer that I had an immense curiosity about. She is a woman in a typically male-dominated industry; I also dare say that the adult film industry as a whole is believed to be a boy’s club, so for a woman to make her mark on the industry is phenomenal and to do it well gives the self-professed feminist in me quite a thrill. I like seeing women making waves in an industry that is believed to be by men, for men, especially considering that one in three women watch and enjoy adult films.
I recently had the opportunity to be introduced to Tristan Taormino and her film, Rough Sex, which greatly sums up the content of the film.
What is different and also refreshing about Rough Sex is that at the beginning of every scene, you get to see interviews with the performers from the upcoming scene and hear about their own sexual fantasies, that they then get to act out completely consensually and safely in the scene. Women’s fantasies vary greatly and we often do fantasize about rough sex and the spontaneity of doing something a little dirty and a little wrong. I greatly respect Taormino for “going there” and for not being afraid to capture the same fantasies that can put some people off or even make people feel uncomfortable watching, but be incredibly hot at the same time.
Granted, this film is not for everyone, especially since it does depict (consensual) rape fantasy, home invasion fantasies and also has a scene that switches the typical dominant male/submissive woman scenario and has a woman’s fantasy of being dominant in the bedroom and her corporate business, obviously powerful husband be in the submissive role, which I liked seeing quite a bit. In my opinion, this film can be really hot for women who do fantasize about rough sex and can also be very eye-opening in the respect that you have the opportunity to open yourself up to new ideas and may discover that you do like fantasizing about something that you didn’t think would excite you.
PETA has a very long history of promoting their vegetarian and vegan lifestyle by using very bold approaches that are often outright offensive, sexist, misogynist and above all, untrue. Yet another notch in the ‘PETA lies’ bedpost is their newest Santa Clause ad which claims that cow’s milk causes impotence.
In my (most humble) opinion, PETA is merely using scare tactics (or “kicking a guy when he’s down,” in a matter of speaking) in order to get people to pay attention. Sadly, their ‘punch in the gut’ tactics have worked, which is why we’re still seeing ads from them popping up again and again, all of them skirting right on by questionable and pushing up against insulting and this ad in particular, if you took PETA’s logo off of it, it could have been an ad for how to buy Viagra online.
There is absolutely no proof to be seen that supports their accusation that cow’s milk causes impotence and because so many of their ads and promotional techniques have been brought to question by several different reputable resources over the years, there are a great number of people who see them for who they truly are. People who are vegetarian and vegan and who would support PETA, had it not been for their “shock jock” nature, have seen through them for years and by using these types of marketing techniques and creating health risks that have no factual data supporting it to put on billboards, flyers and other marketing materials, they are alienating the same people who would otherwise support them and their cause.
Our first ever Holiday Gift Guide launched today and it’s a pretty exciting time! We have been working for over a month to find a variety of different products and companies to include, giving you the most inspiration for some perfect holiday gifts for your friends and family.
We are off to a great start and also have launched with a great giveaway of a product that would not only make a great stocking stuffer for your kids’ stockings, but will make your life easier by making teeth brushing a fun activity–Imagine that! From now until November 27th, you can enter to win all four Spread Heads and I can say from personal experience, they are absolutely adorable and will become a life saver in your house when you find yourself not having to bride your kids to brush their teeth anymore.
We will continue to add products throughout this next week and will also feature one gift a day from our Holiday Gift Guide that you will not want to pass up!
Lady GaGa performed Bad Romance and Speechless at the AMA’s tonight and she blew my mind! Her performances are just getting better and better. Check it out if you missed it (or watch it again and again!)
Edited To Add: The video was removed from YouTube (do we really expect anything different from them anymore?) so hopefully the following video stays up long enough for you all to see it!