http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/sex-myth/
This week I review The Sex Myth by Rachel Hills! It's a super interesting read about the way our society views people based on what kind of sex they imply they're having, how sex is treated not just an activity that you can do but it's treated as a definition of who you truly are. Super interesting stuff!
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/sex-positive/
I know what I mean when I say "Sex Positive" but that may mean something completely different to another person, so today I've done my best to give the condensed, simplified explanation of what that phrase means to me.
Thank you so much to everyone who lent me their eyes for the second half of my homework assignment! (For the new folks, I'm taking Danielle Corsetto's Illustration Class and you can see the first half of Assignment #2 here)
Matt and I have been showing his dad around Portland for the last couple days. After flying from England to Va...
2016-03-13 17:35:26 +0000 UTC View Post
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/brain-orgasm-science-tait-howard/
Tait Howard brings some sexy, sexy SCIENCE to Oh Joy this week with an explanation of just what exactly happens to your brain during an orgasm! It's super interesting and Tait's excellent cartooning made me guffaw out loud. Read on and EDUCATE YOURSELF!
Dang, so after the first homework assignment for Danielle Corsetto's Illustration Class (which I didn't even fully complete) I completely fell behind. No good excuses, just didn't balance my work and life obligations adequately. But! I have been saving each lesson and homework assignment so that I could eventually catch back up! And you know ...
2016-03-08 06:04:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey kids! I'm working on a comic that shows off a group of people with a super wide range of sexual/romantic orientations and sexual interests.
Here's the three that I wrote:
-Married Swinger, BDSM
-Monogamous, Light Spankings
-Asexual, Snuggling
Please add to my list! It doesn't have to be a description of you personally, I just need some more ideas for the many ways in which sexualities and identities and sexual interests can be mashed up together. And your descriptions ca...
2016-03-05 00:56:07 +0000 UTC View Post
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/shilo/
Looking for a cock that's locked and ready to rock? Dearest Perverts, meet the Shilo: a flexible dick that can be bent downwards for daytime discretion* and then when you're ready to put it in action it'll reign rock hard.
*Provided you wear the kind of clothes that can accommodate a bulge. Which I do not :(
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/body-image/
Today we deviate from our regular tone at Oh Joy Sex Toy with a beautiful, contemplative wordless comic about body image from Thomke Meyer.
I’m laying on my stomach in front of my bookshelves, trying to write about the book signing in San Francisco last weekend for you guys, and I can’t believe this is real. My first draft was kind of a bummerfest. I was bein’ all sad about the people that scare me, the ones who have helped influence my decision to reduce the amount of events I do and to stop taking on speaking gigs. If I were a better writer I would have expressed the pain of what it’s like to be vilified by people who proj...
2016-02-22 23:57:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The original plan was to start working on next week's comic, but both Matt and I are completely zipped zapped after our San Francisco trip. Holy moley. It was an incredible experience, but now I am, to the core of my bones, exhausted. SO! We're gunna run another guest comic next week and I'm using this time to work on Volume 3 book assets (misc. illustrations, page wallpaper, cover, etc.)
Matt and I are a bit stumped about which cover layout to move forward on. Well, as of thirty seco...
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/sponge/
Dwam, my long-time cartoonist, tattoo artist (They tattooed the roots on my right arm!), queer, sex positive friend from France, shares a comic about the menstrual sponge! This is a really interesting alternative to tampons and cups, and is favored by some adult actors when they've gotta perform during That Time of the Month. Really interesting information to me and I'm sure it wil...
2016-02-16 19:59:54 +0000 UTC View Post
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/fluke/
Just when you thought I was done making terrible rhymes about butt stuff... I'M NOT.
For you folks looking for something to up your butt plug game, check out the Fluke by Hole Punch Toys.
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This FRIDAY!
SAN FRANCISCO!!
COME TO MY BOOK SIGNING!!!!
(Reposted and edited from a brain blurble I had over on Instagram. Mostly it's just me replacing "alter" with "altar" because it turns out they are two different words!)
I've been seeing photos on Instagram and an article or two about how some women are really getting into keeping altars in their homes. Like, the kinds with candles and objects they feel have mystical --or straight-up magical-- powers. Part...
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/bootie/
Tempted to try out a butt plug but you're a bare bottomed beginner? The Bootie is for YOU-tie! You can expect more high quality rhyming and punning like that in this week's review.
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NEXT WEEK is our book signing at Good Vibrations in San Francisco! If you're in the area, I really hope to see you :D
February 12th 2016-02-02 16:32:20 +0000 UTC View Post
(Preview panel from next week’s comic. How gorgeously did Matt color this? It takes my breath away)
What comes next?
I have so many ideas for projects I want to do, stories I want to tell. I want to draw that silly, short 18th century statue-comes(cums?)-to-life porno comic I started last year. I want to draw the fictional, young adult graphic novel that my friend Brendan Adkins and I wrote (I mean, he wrote it, I just weighed my suggestions heavily). I want to do a series of s...
2016-01-29 02:51:50 +0000 UTC View Post
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/whats-the-buzz-by-benjamin/
Whoah mama, guest artist Benjamin brings us this fuckin' luscious comic of luscious fuckin'! I can't get over this guy's drawing and storytelling and character design talent, I could stare at this for hours. TEACH ME HOW TO DRAW LIKE THIS.
Er! and it's a super hot comic, too!
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We've got ju...
2016-01-26 16:10:12 +0000 UTC View Post
In the last three years of working on Oh Joy, my ability to draw has improved immensely. Which is great! I'm super proud of myself!
But (there's always a 'but') I feel like there's only so much I can figure out on my own. I've tried reading books on learning how to do art stuff, and I just don't get very far with them. There's something about having An Instructor in A Class that really wakes me up and lights a fire under me to LEARN HOW TO DO THINGS. I had already resolved to sign...
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/eva/
Today's review is of the incomparably adorable Eva vibrator, made by Dame Products. It is also the touching love story of two robots finding love in spite of the odds.
Please don't sue me, Pixar.
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Also! San Franciscans!
Coming right up is my
February 12...
2016-01-19 16:28:24 +0000 UTC View Post
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/coming-out-like-a-porn-star
Even if you have no interest in the sex industry (yet), I feel pretty secure in predicting that you will get something out of reading the collection of essays to be found in "Coming Out Like a Porn Star"
Guys? Guys. This is a real powerful anthology.
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Also! San Franciscans!...
2016-01-12 20:08:55 +0000 UTC View Post
(Preview from tomorrow's upcoming review of the anthology Coming Out Like a Porn Star, edited by Jiz Lee)
This Sunday I sat down with two of my friends and over multiple cups of tea —and multiple pee breaks— we summarized our 2015 over the cour...
Last week I spent the morning with a friend who had just ended a relationship. Both people love each other and the relationship was not bad, but they were just not quite compatible to sufficiently fulfill the other's emotional needs. Nobody was a Bad Guy in this situation and it is sad for everyone. My friend and I talked for hours about relationships and love, from romantic to platonic to familial. My brain is still buzzing with everything we explored and a day or so after that morning, I sent ...
2016-01-07 19:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/vaginismus
Unfortunately "vaginismus" is not, in fact, the winter celebration of vaginas-- though I think that would be a far better application of the name. Your family gathers around the Vaginismus tree and you all exchange Vaginismus presents and eat Vaginismus cookies. ...........I DIGRESS.
No, sadly, vaginismus (lower-case "V") is a painful affliction that causes the vaginal mus...
2016-01-05 17:55:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you so much to everyone who threw their name in my digital hat as a potential Bitch Magazine subscriber! (From this post, earlier today) I wish I could send you all subscription-- if it's any consolation (and I know it's not), you're all winners in my heart.
Oh! And if you missed my edit to the original post, one of my super awesome readers sent me some extra $$$ just so I could buy an EXTRA TW...
2015-12-31 06:58:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The book was already hollowed out and fancy paper-ed when I bought it off Etsy and then I added in the radish myself. I'm telling myself I'll do a big ol' post explaining how I made it for you guys about it later, but whenever I tell myself things like that I never follow through, so WHO KNOWS.
The real reason I'm writing is because Bitch Magazine sent me a newsletter email saying they've got 48 hours left to raise about ...
Oh my goshhhhhh, how fucking hot is this comic by Claudia Aguirre? I couldn't believe it when she turned this in, this smutty story is a stunner.
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/beware-the-wood-witch-claudia-aguirre/
Er, uh, I mean-- pardon my drool! Claudia takes us deep into the woods with a mighty warrior and her secret witchy lover. ENJOY!
It was Sunday night at 10:30pm and I was FINALLY DONE with drawing the Stag review. The legs on the deer were a... little? off? But, like I said, it was 10:30pm on Sunday and I rounded them up to GOOD ENOUGH. Did I mention it was Sunday? At 10:30pm? And I hadn't had a weekend off in a couple weeks?
The next day I got to my office and saw a text from Matt saying something along the lines of 'honey, sweetie, my love...
2015-12-29 00:16:36 +0000 UTC View Post
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/ace-kiku-h
Kiku H. shares her personal story about discovering her asexual orientation in this beautiful, powerful comic.
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/stag/
In Portland and looking for a classy lounge to oogle some hot, half-naked dudes? Dearest Perverts, look no further than Stag!
(Cross-posted and lightly edited from two Instagram posts, here and here)
A lifetime ago I was issued my International Student Identity card so I could spend my semester abroad "studying" (by which I mean nursing a broken heart, drawing, and falling in love) in Aix-en-Pro...
2015-12-14 17:35:13 +0000 UTC View Post
(Cross-posted from my Instagram page)
Last year Matt's mom sent us an artificial Christmas tree, which is the first tree we've had since moving to Portland nine (me) and seven (Matt) years ago. This brought to light another decoration we've never possessed, Christmas tree ornaments. We bought our very first one, a wooden snowflake, and I wrote all of our names (including Flapjack our...