OhJoySexToy

Urinary Tract Infection

Auuggghhhh, the dreaded UTI! 

This week's comic was a not-so-subtle excuse to share with you the story of how I peed my pants this one time. Hey, I'm a TMI autobio cartoonist at heart ;) 

Also! I'm FUCKING DELIGHTED to announce that the Kickstarter to produce Oh Joy Sex Toy: Volume TWO funded in roughly 16 hours! I'm not sure of the exact time, because it had funded after I went to bed. BUT. The point is: Less than 24 hours and you folks made it happen. That's a pretty humbling...

Volume Two on Kickstarter

It's here! It's here! 

We've launched our Kickstarter to print the second Oh Joy Sex Toy book!

 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/erikamoen/oh-joy-sex-toy-volume-2 

It's 330 full color pages of comics about sex toys, sex workers, and sex education-- plus terrible puns, for good measure. 90 pages, a THIRD of the book, is devoted to our fantastic guest comi...

A Distinction Without A Difference (Also a pee waterfall)

I don’t feel comfortable being called a sex educator. 

“…but Erika, sweetie, you educate people about sex with your comics. Doesn’t it stand to reason that you are then a sex educator?” 

I know, I know, I know that makes sense. But. Here is my thing: 

To me, a For Reals Sex Educator is someone who has studied this topic in-depth in a formal capacity, they’ve gone to school for it and gotten some kind of certification. That is, this person’s k...

Cream For You by Donut

Debut pornographer Donut heats things up with this cool erotic romp through an ice cream shop.

Book Covers and Anniversaries

This week I've been cracking away on the cover design for volume two, which is generally not my forté. 

But I've done my best! Pushing and pulling pixels and text left and right, shrinking and enlarging my little cartoons of sex toys on the cover. 

I just handed off the file to Matt, thinking only some minor tweaks remain. When he told me this is gunna take another 2-3 days worth of work, I defer to his much greater experience working with graphic design and layout than I have...

Our Dildo Hutch

I wrote this about a month and half ago but only just posted it now, so the parts where it says "today" substitute "a month and half ago" 

Anyway, here is a tour of our living room dildo hutch!

We-Vibe Tango

A surprisingly strong, rechargeable, pocket-sized vibrator!

Brain and Book Printing Trubs

Hello my lovely patrons! Since my last post I’d keep starting an update to you all, but I’d hate every word I typed so much that I’d delete the whole thing and tell myself I’d do it in a few more days. And now here we are, a long time later. 

The last few weeks I’ve been having Some Real Brain Trubs. It happens about once a year where I have a great big crash and, of course, I forget it happens every year until it’s over. Which it basically is now! But when I’m in...

Come As You Are

"Come As You Are" by Dr. Emily Nagoski has blown my mind and I honestly think everyone would be doing themselves a favor if they picked up a copy.

Three Greatest SFW Fetishes by Ryan North & Trudy Cooper

Ryan North, of Dinosaur Comics, and Trudy Cooper, of Oglaf, have teamed up to share with you the three greatest SFW fetishes that you can watch on YouTube at work without getting fired! Well, maybe you'd get fired for watching videos at all at work, but it wouldn't be because of the content. Because they're SFW!

Aneros

Have you massaged your prostate yet today? Matthew brings you a review of the Aneros!

Medical Abortion

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/medical-abortion What to expect during and after a medical abortion.

Humanity vs Universality

Way back when we launched OJST two years ago, I very much intended to cover abortion. I've been pro-choice my entire life and I want to do what I can to help educate about and destigmatize abortion as a respectable reproductive option. 

In August 2013 I started with the Pregnancy comic (http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/pregnancy/) as a precursor to the Emergency Contraception comic (2015-03-22 06:33:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Open to Change by Purple Kecleon

We're so excited to have this GORGEOUS painterly story about an anthropomorphic couple opening up their relationship by guest artist Purple Kecleon.

The Transformer

The Transformer does a million things, but none of them well.

Quick Question

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who responded to my previous post-- I've been thinking about your replies all week and I'm annoyed that I haven't had time to write back yet, but I'm hoping later this week I'll have some time to just sit down and put my thoughts into words. But until then: I really appreciate everyone's thoughtful, smart, interesting responses. I'm not exaggerating when I say I really have been thinking about them all week. 

Ok, so on to my "Quick Question" -- 

WH...

Fleshlight ICE

Matthew reviews the see-through Ice model from Fleshlight!

Representation

I think about representation in OJST a lot. Like, A LOT a lot. 

As a white, cisgender, able-bodied person living in one of the whitest cities in the country, I'm very aware of how easy it is for me to draw characters similar to me and the people I'm surrounded by as a default. It was only in 2010 that I made the conscious decision to incorporate a wider diversity of people into my art, which means I had a full 26 years in me of never having paid attention to representation. Basically, I f...

Ecdysiast: A Pole Dance Studio

My pole dance studio!

Secretary and 50 Shades of Grey

I've noticed a strange double-standard people have about the portrayal of abusive relationships and unsafe BDSM between Secretary and 50 Shades of Grey. So I wrote about it!

BDSM Safety by Abby Howard

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/bdsm/ 

As promised in last week's blog post, Abby Howard takes over OJST today with a comic on BDSM safety! And vampire boyfriends! 

You can also support her on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/abbyhoward

50 Shades of Grey

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/50shadesofgrey/ 

You all know this story by now.

Lovelife Adventure Triple Stim Vibrator

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/lovelifeadventure/ 

Eh.

Audiobookin'

Here's how I drew a panel from this next Tuesday's comic, about OhMiBod's Lovelife Adventure Triple Stim Vibrator (woof, what a mouthful. [THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID {That's not what she said because this is not an oral toy. Jeez.}]) 

Not getting my work done during the week and having to finish it over the weekend is always a bummer, but now that Matt's doing all the coloring on the comic it's a GUILTY bummer because now I'm stealing his days off too :-/ And on top of that, I drew a really con...

Touch Therapy by Tits McGee

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/touchtherapy 

Holy moly, this guest comic by Tits McGee is HOT HOT HOT! Can you believe this is their first time drawing porn??????? Let's hope it's not their last!

Bonus Comics and Staff Picks

Matt and I are officially in pre-production mode for OJST Volume Two. Like last year, we'll be launching the Kickstarter in May again. Today we had a 2.5 hour long brainstorming session with Anne Moloney, who made our last Kickstarter video and will, of course, be making the next one. Matt's been hard at work this whole month roughly assembling the InDesign file of the second book's layout and adding in all the pages I've produced since the last volume. 

This week I focused on making the ...

Yeast Infections

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/yeast 

This week I cover the beast that is yeast!

Cootch Gremlins

This next comic is on ~*yeast infections*~ Haha, it's Saturday and I've still got two more pages to pencil and ink of this monster six page comic. I'll get 'er done by Sunday. I've gotta! 

But! In the interest of procrastinating, here's the evolution a panel went through yesterday. 

SCRIPT: Doctors know best. You'll either be prescribed an oral medication, like Diflucan, or recommended an over-the-counter treatment like Monistat or Gyne-Lotrimin, which is a cream or ovule you i...

NumberWang

My handsome, clever husband Matthew wrote two blog posts recently about the money side of running Oh Joy Sex Toy. 

Kickstarter Numberwang
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/kickstarter-numberwang/ Matthew breaks down exactly how much money our Kickstarter actually earned, all the payments we made with it, and how much was left over at the end. 

Oh Joy Sex Toy, As a Business
2015-01-16 20:46:14 +0000 UTC View Post

The Pulse

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/pulse 

My devastatingly handsome husband reviews the Pulse, a vibrator for your penis!