Toy Talk: The We-Vibe

            One tries to avoid clichés like the mushrooms in ‘Centipede’ but sometimes you just have to do a shot and go for it. Like now. Just imagine me talking in my best entertainment reporter voice when I tell you this:

            The real Oscar buzz was in the gifting room this year with many lucky celebrities being recipients of the ground-breaking new sex toy, the We-Vibe.

            See? You can’t talk about vibrators and Academy Awards without saying “Oscar buzz” – I’m sure it’s right there in The AP Stylebook. But with out of the way let’s talk about the We-Vibe and how cool it is that sex toys have gone so openly Hollywood.

            The We-Vibe is a unique new sililcone vibrator in a flexible U-shape. It’s inserted to provide G-spot stimulation from the inside and clitoral stimulation from the outside and can be worn while you’re having sex with a partner or on your own. There’s an instructional video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOnKvYLFE4k>))

 which offers good illustrations of how it works and includes tips like what position will let him share the buzz. You can get the We-Vibe locally at Fairvilla Megastore
and that position, by the way, is doggie style (thought I’d blow right by that, didn’t you?).

            The first time I ever remember seeing a sex toy mentioned in the movies was in “Parenthood” when Diane Weist’s vibrator is mistaken for a flashlight in a blackout. “She needs a man….now,” the grandmother says. It was a brilliantly funny scene, but I don’t toys remember toys being mentioned again until “Something About Mary” and I thought how cool it was that these things were coming out of the closet (or nightstand drawer). Then came “Sex and the City” blowing both doors and drawers off their hinges.

            For sex toys to be handed out at such a big event is a pretty spiffy progress report on the country’s sexual attitudes. Bruce Murison, inventor of the We-Vibe says the toys were well-received  by celebs and “The response was fantastic.”

            No dobut – who wouldn’t be happy to be gifted thus? I have never had someone hand me a free sex toy (it’s happened) and told them “No thanks, I’m full.”

            We’ll be talking more about the We-Vibe down the road because a) it’s cool, b) it’s Canadian and c) the video says you can wear them and no one will know. We’re anxious to guess who is. See? It’s already fun and you haven’t even opened the box.