Aren’t you glad this aren’t didn’t start out “5 ways to put the ‘ho’ in hohoho”? I was tempted… as it’s that time of year where the puns sound punnier, the sweaters more elaborate, and normally cheesy sentiments fill everyone with good cheer. So let’s take all that happy holidays and the spirit of giving and put it into the bedroom, shall we? There’s no reason eggnog should be the only thing full of spice!

1.’Tis the season for a quickie!

Between family obligations and Secret Santa sneakiness, sex may be the last thing on your naughty or your nice list. On the nice side, bust out your organizer and pencil in some alone time with your man. For the busiest of the busy, the bedroom may be out of the question. Get naughty by stealing cheeky kisses, squeezes, and more while wrapping presents, just before the folks turn up for dinner, well, whenever the fancy strikes! Read the rest.

Warm up your libido together this Winter with a game of Twister. It might be fun for both of you to start the game by wearing some sexy accessories that can be taken off as one of you lose ( a la strip poker). Also, maybe try seducing him with Shakira impression by using a hula hoop! It’s all in the hips ladies. Read this for some more foreplay fun!

Fancy a quickie? You better be ready for it, suggests Val Sampson, a consultant for Durex Play. Val Sampson has offered her tips for a successful quickie in the meantime.

Val, who’s also a Durex Play consultant, told a UK newspaper: “If you want to have wild sex when you get home in a very short time period, you need to prime yourself.” She suggests a little flirty texting or prepping yourself with little pleasures, like taking time to primp and groom and fantasize, all day long.

So, there an trend in the adult world: horror porn. I love it. As a lifelong fan of the gothic, slasher films, and, well, also a connoiseur of the erotic, this seems a happy, vampy match. Coming on up to Halloween, you may want to consider unleashing your inner vamp and exploring the social anxieties that got the Victorians all faint and flustered. Get out your best role-playing abilities and put those sexy costumes to good use with a night in at your manor!

Got condoms? Everyone else doesn’t have to know. It’s grand to have a well-stocked erotic inventory, but you don’t want everyone to know, do you? So here’s what to do about sticky fingers and curious five-year-olds and your secret stash.

The One Condoms compact is just about as cute and discreet as it gets for toting johnnies in your purse. One also has a condom belt for the guys…no, not Rambo-style arsenal of rubbers. The condom slips discreetly into a belt buckle for aesthetics and pleasure.

For in home storage, the ToiBocks, a new, high-end storage box that your could have found in Nordstrom’s. It features a secret lock mechanism so no one, but you, knows the trick to unlocking your pleasure box.

And the also have the ToiTissue, for easy access bedside storage. The tissue/condom/lube storage combo is a little more suggestive at second glance, no? The intrepid entrepreneurs at ToiBocks know how to keep things clean, tidy and discreet…kinda like Donna Reed.

1. The longer I keep going, the happier she’ll be.

2. Oral sex is about how fast or slow you move your tongue.

3. All I need to know about sex, I learned from porn.

4. Sex should be like aerobics class with a side helping of a pommel horse routine.

5. Nice men don’t marry dirty girls.

What does he want? Find out here, along with 21 sex moves to rock his world.

Is a short spell intended celibacy the secret to better sex? To breaking a mundane routine? Read Colleen Oakley’s story for the dish on what happens with 30 days of no nookie.

30 Days Without Sex

 When I told my boyfriend I wanted to give up sex for 30 days, he hooted with laughter. But the process was anything but funny.

“So when you say ‘no sex’ for 30 days, what does that mean, exactly?”

I’m on the phone with Ian Kerner, Ph.D., author of Sex Detox, which suggests stepping away from the hot stuff for a month to revive a sex life that’s grown yawn-inducing or otherwise “toxic.”

I wouldn’t call the sex I have with my boyfriend, Fred, “toxic”: We’ve had a healthy amount with lots of texture (from start-the-week-off-right sex to the Wednesday-night reconnectors to a few all-day Saturday sessions). But after a year-and-a-half, even a good thing can feel routine. Why not try something that promises to make sex better — even if it means not having it at all?

In his nearly 10 years of counseling bedroom-challenged couples, Kerner has found that taking sex off the table helps couples focus on aspects of the relationship they never paid attention to before. “Most things that happen — or don’t happen — during sex have nothing to do with sex,” he says. Read the rest.

(image from the new Joy of Sex)

Here’s a depressing fact of the day, straight from the Kinsey Institute, a research center for gender, sex, and reproduction.

Contemporary women have less sex than their 1950s counterparts because they have so little uncommitted time.

Come on ladies…let’s make more time for ourselves. When the author of the newly re-released Joy of Sex says she’s glad she’s not 10 years younger because of all the pressure generations X and Y have…it’s time to take a hint and destress. From the Huffington Post:

“I’m glad I’m not ten years younger because there are an awful lot of pressures on young people: to look fabulous; to have a fabulous sex life,” Susan Quilliam, the author, says. “We’re living in a world where it’s important to achieve and whether we have a good sex life has become one of our measures of personal validity. Alex Comfort [the original author of the Joy of Sex] took the emphasis off achievement - that is one of the many things he got right.”

Look for the revised book in January 2009, or order it from Amazon UK Sept. 1.

Sex toys are a wild and wonderful world of products. Now, there is a lot of chaff to be sorted from the wheat (and that’s why I’m here, a little, and why this comprehensive book is here too). Regardless, this  is a great guide to figuring out how to use them well and proper. I mean, before I started reviewing the stuff, it hadn’t even occurred to me what pleasures awaited…or I was buying not-so-good product…or didn’t know how to use it. It’s not always that easy to figure stuff out…like the Cone (below).

In a nutshell, the book ToyGasms includes:

• Sexy instructions on every sex toy out there
• Over 40 toy-techniques for mind-blowing orgasms
• No-blush secrets to introduce your lover to hot toy-play
• How to hide your toys from prying eyes

(hand-made wooden toys from NobEssence) 

“Ecobabes might be a city species, but while I let you sit in the same silence that quieted our car, I’ll tell you that being an ecosexual isn’t just for college kids, humpy UC Berkeley law professors or PR flacks trying to sex up climate change. Anyone can green up their sex toy collection, have eco-friendly sex, and even with all those toxic sex toys, make a positive impact on their orgasms, their conscience and — yes — the environment.”

Violet Blue (left) wrote this in a fantastic article in the San Francisco Gate about going green in the bedroom. Seems to be an increasing trend. Sex toy manufacturers, in fact, are going greener by making better quality products that last longer.

Well, Violet tells us all about greening you sex life with a few helpful hints.