Sex Toy Manufacturing in China

Sure, you stick them on things, in things, around things, up things, and many numerous other prepositions. But did you ever wonder who makes the sex toys? This article from the Guardian talks about the sex toy factories and public canoodling of the youth of China. With an opening paragraph like this, how can you lose (you know, other than the low wages, horrible working conditions and social repression)?

With a glazed look in her eyes, the bored production line worker dips her hand into a bag full of short and curlies, peels off a strip of double-sided transparent tape and applies the furry finishing touch to a plastic vagina.

If you're interested in how production comes together, Toys In Motion has a few pages about their production trip to China for work on the Priceless. Educational AND cute (make love chicken, hehehehehehe)!

Touch Me! Exhibit in London, June 16th - August 29th, 2005

Touch Me! is an exhibition of projects involving touch feedback. It showcases experiments and projects involving how humans deal with touch in control actuation and communication situations. From turning on a TV by stroking it to learning why people greet each other physically in different ways, there's a ton of stuff to be explored at this show.

Too bad I'm on the wrong continent to go to this, it sounds really interesting. Anyone in the UK wanna do a field trip report? :)

Mod Rez Trancevibe to work with any vibrator

Remember the Rez TranceVibrator? 'course ya do! It's the peripheral that launched a thousand hard-ons.

Thanks to our forum members, we've now found a site that hosts a tutorial on how to modify your TranceVibrator to work with any vibrator you own!

That being said, be warned (as they don't warn you on the tutorial page): this mod has around the same safety level as the SeXBox v1 mod. If you pull more than 500mA through this (or possibly 100mA, not sure how PS/2's USB setup works), it's going to hopefully just shut down, but might also cause other undefined behavior. So test whatever vibrator you hook up to this first, to make sure you arn't gonna screw anything up.

Or just wait for our "Make your own TranceVibrator" tutorial, which will be happening sometime in the near to far future.

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2257. It is alive, and for those of us in the good ol' NoPussyPictures States of America, the bitchin', moanin', and form fillin' has begun.

Here at Slashdong Labs (I just decided we're a labratory. Next project: bunsen burner dildo!), 2257 isn't doing much other than curtailing a little bit of wank time as we scroll past all of the warnings to get to the pre-1995 pictures (mmmm, flannel porn. I miss grunge.). We didn't have to do shit for compliance other than yank our NakkidNerds ads (That's what you get for never saying hi to me in the hallway at school, Cloei! :P). We don't yet create content (wanna get naked for us? Wanna do it for free? Email us now!), we feature as little flesh as possible (the only known flesh on the site is the GIRL HAND in the SexBox article and my feet in the Sexercise video, and those don't really count), and I doubt many people visit here in order to get off anyways.

Now sure, I realize that people enjoy having sex, usually with other people. We're doing the best we can to eradicate that need through technology, but until then, it seems we're stuck with people wanting to do it with, or at least see others doing it with, people. 2257 really fucks that up that last part.

Since the law has come into effect, you've got a few options:

• Whine, pout, and rant
• Get good at filling out forms
• Remember that all that turns on isn't out-and-out (or in-and-out, teehee) porn
• Use technology to its fullest and possibly get used to some anti-aliasing in your porn

The first 2 options have been covered very, very in depth on many other sites, so I'm not going into that. It doesn't seem like anyone is considering options outside of this, though.

Basically, to get around 2257 without the form filling, you need to take the human out of the human reproduction, but still make it sexy enough that it will make people want to reproduce. Without bringing technology into this, there are still fetishes that may not look like fetishes to other people. I'll cover a few here.

• Fursuits and Furrys

• Sure, the internet hates you and you're considered a joke to most of the fetish scene, but as long as you never take the head off the suit, who knows if there's a real human in there? Now you can point and laugh back at all the people already pointing at launghing!

• Wet and Messy

• A girl with mud on her to some is OMG A GIRL WITH MUD ON HER to others.

• Crush

• Stepping on things. Yup.

See? These are all fetishes. Fetishes that drive people to orgasm. Fetishes that people spend a TON of money to see, but that could easily go on totally under the radar. Someone doesn't have to be looking like they're having sex in order to be sexy. Everyone who got my Crash references in the first Sexbox tutorial knows this.

Also, take this time to think about all the times you get turned on while you're not watching porn. All the times you drive by that McDonald's billboard and the picture of Ronald smiling just makes you all happy in your pants. All the times you masturbate to the weather segment of the news, because storms are sexy. All the times when you're watching the poop machine at the local museum and... ok, you get the idea.

Yes, 2257 sucks, I'm not saying it doesn't. This is a setback to the freedoms we enjoy as sexual begins. This is an act by people who don't think you should be seeing other people have sex, and don't want to leave that choice up to you. But remember that we have come so far as a species that we can now sexualize ANYTHING.

Be proud every time you accidently pop a tent and have to cover it up with a newspaper (or don't, if you're, you know, into that).

Be proud every time you have to reupholster a chair.

Be proud and know you're sticking it to the man.

They can ban (or at least, severely hamper and annoy makers of) naked pictures, but they can't ban everything. Hell, we've said that we think engineering and math are sexy. I got physically attacked (in a good way) when doing Analysis and Graph Theory homework in college. They'll never be able to ban that. I'm sure anyone reading this can think of a similar experience they've had.

As has been said by many a pissed off parent, "It's only dirty if you make it that way". So remember, make EVERYTHING dirty. Life is just more fun that way.

In our next post, we get back to being subversive evil geniuses and start talking about what technology can do to sidestep 2257 compliance.

Telepooping: Copraphilic Teledildonics?

Ah, the things slow weeks make me post.

Cloaca is a series of "art machines" built by the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. These machines make poop. Pour different foods in, and the mechnical equivilent to the human digestive system goes to work, taking out the nutrients and putting out waste.

So why the hell is this on a sex blog, you ask?

Well, according to an interview in Bizarre Magazine, one of the Cloaca machines is actually internet enabled! Quote:

"On the New York museum curator's birthday, we fed (the machine) more via commands on the internet, and it produced a big shit for him"

So now we've got force feedback cow rears, and internet controlled pooping. The future of sick fringe fetishes (and completely automated, mechanized cow patty bingo) looks grander every day.

via Bizarre Magazine, May Issue (Reason #924 I hate living in the US: WHERE'S MY SEALED SECTION! :( )