Penny Piquant

There are a lot of misconceptions about Plan B (Emergency Contraceptive Pill/Morning After Pill). The biggest myth is the emergency contraception (EC) are abortion pills. It is just not true. EC will not “work” if you are already pregnant. You have to take EC within 72hours (3days) of unprotected sex for it to be most [...]

I’m sure that you’ve been asked this before. What’s your number? (i.e. How many people have you slept with?) It’s my policy to not to ask anyone I’m with. Why? First, I don’t care. Second, it is irrelevant. The more relevant questions are when was your last (STI) test? or What are your safer sex [...]

I review quite a lot of toys on this site. I thought it would be a good idea to take a step back and write a post that is for the new/novice adult toy user. In a recent study by the researchers at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, 53% of American women have used [...]

Lube. I think that lube makes almost any type of sex play better, easier, less painful, and more sensitive. I think lubrication is one of the most under utilized sex toys out there! There are four main types of lube: oil or petroleum based, water based, silicone based (or a water/silicone hybrid) and special/flavored. OIL [...]

The Hitachi Magic Wand is affectionately known as “the Cadillac of Vibrators”. It is probably the most common vibrator seen in pornography today. The Hitachi Magic Wand is designed to be a “whole body massager” and first appeared on the market in the 1970′s. The Hitachi Magic Wand is probably the strongest vibrator out there. [...]

Recently, Hugo Schwyzer (nationally-known speaker on sex, relationships, and masculinity) wrote a great article called “ He Wants to Jizz on Your Face, but Not Why You Think.” His article shines a light on one thing that Dan Savage and anti-porn zealot, Gail Dines, seem to agree on: facial cum shots are degrading. Of course, Savage feels [...]

I love this harness! I use it a lot more than I thought I would. The Sportsheets thigh harness opens up new possibilities for couples and is a great way to play with penetration. I know from personal experience that holding a dildo can be a hand/wrist strain (especially for those with repetitive stress injuries), and [...]

I received a great Christmas present this year. Despite the title of this article, I didn’t get a leg lamp. Rather, I received a Kink Lab Neon Wand. Essentially this is made to be similar to a Violet Wand. For those unfamiliar: A Violet Wand is typically used for the application of low current, high [...]

Being a porn performer has got to be rough. You have to let cameras into your most intimate moments-and be labeled as misfit, bad for society, sex worker/whore, and some get any attempts at future livelihood squashed. Yet at the same time….our country is just barely crawling out from under mandatory abstinence only education and [...]

I’ve been appalled at our country’s teen pregnancy rate for years. The United States has the highest teenage birth rate among the fully industrialized countries; US teen pregnancy rates are twice as high as in England and Wales or Canada, and eight times as high as in the Netherlands or Japan. Teens in the United [...]