Sunday, May 19, 2024

Happy National Condom Day! Rock Your Willy!

This coming Valentine’s Day weekend has a little something for everyone. The newly sexually awakened housewives will flock to theaters in droves to see the steamy scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey come to life on the big screen this Friday. Googly-eyed lovebirds will have Valentine’s Day date night on Saturday amidst the obligatory romantic dinners, red roses, and little fuzzy teddy bears with hearts that read, “I Love You.”

But there’s more to celebrate this weekend. Lovers of safe sex (yeah, they’re out there), fans of the latest sex paraphernalia, and those promiscuous Tinder daters, have National Condom Day, conveniently placed smack dab on Cupid’s lap this Saturday, to remind themselves: Don’t be silly, wrap your willy!

Admittedly, National Condom Day is my personal favorite of all the made-up holidays (with May’s National Masturbation Month a close second and April’s National Bat Appreciation Day clocking in at third place). It’s not that I’m the safe sex poster child, but it’s a great time to freshen up my sex drawer. Yes, I have a sex drawer, and it’s filled with a variety of condoms and other fun stuff. Just like freshening up your wardrobe every Spring and Fall, National Condom Day is a good time to freshen up your condom, well, wardrobe as well with the latest in cock couture.

“If you always use the same condoms, you aren’t having as much fun as you could have. Adding novelty and trying something new is essential to desire and to getting that hot sex you had in the beginning,” says Emily Morse, Ph.D of Human Sexuality, and host of Sex with Emily.

So, in honor of National Condom Day, I have curated a wide assortment of novel condoms to help spruce up your sex drawer and sex life. There’s something for everyone – from art lovers to rockers to Fifty Shades of Grey fans to Prius-drivers and more…

For Valentine’s Day Lovebirds

You Give Me a Heart On,” “I’d Bone You,” and “Roses Cost 2 Much” are the most popular pre-made Valentine’s Day condom packages courtesy of Say It With a Condom, which hit the condom scene with a bang in 2008 when they launched Barack Obama condoms that read: “Cover Your Cock with Barack” and “The Ultimate Stimulus Package.” More important, you can actually upload your own images and text to create personalized condom packages. Def Jam Recordings recently made promo condoms for hip-hop artist Jeremih that read: Late Nights: The Album/I Could Fuck You All the Time – a line from the love song of the year: “Fuck You All the Time.”

For Fifty Shades of Grey Fans

There’s no escaping the Fifty Shades merchandizing bonanza, which features everything from ball gags and anal beads to infant onesies that creepily read, “Looking for Mr. Grey.” (Babies and bondage?!) At least EL James promotes safe sex in her titillating tome. Lovehoney’s The Official Sensual Care Collection has tagged their Fifty Shades of Grey condoms with the words, “The Foil Packet,” after this insipid line from horny housewives’ favorite book: “He takes out a foil packet, gazing down at me, his expression dark. He rolls the condom down over his impressive length…” – Anastasia Steele. Gag. (Pun intended.)

For The Eco-Friendly Guy

Sustainable condoms are here. Don’t worry, we said sustainable, not reusable. “They are like the Whole Foods for condoms,” quips Matthew Mandell, a true condom connoisseur and owner of Condomania.com. He’s talking about Sustain condoms, which uses Fair Trade rubber and is nitrosamine free. Check out their motto: “Feel good doing what comes natural.”

For Art Lovers

Admit it, you wish your dick were prettier. (So do we.) Now you can turn your Johnson into The Mona Lisa – literally. Graphic Armor is the first condom company to allow you to upload a photo of anything – art, tattoo, your face – and they’ll print it on latex for you in full color. “We’re like CafePress, but for your condoms,” says Graphic Armor owner Adam Glickman. “We want you to think of your condom as a canvas for personal [and promotional] expression.” They recently had a New York artist create a condom with the image of one of her pieces to promote her exhibit. Also, ONE Condoms teamed with graffiti and street artists for their HIV awareness campaign, Lust for Life, featuring the artists’ art on the condom packages.

For Rockers

ONE Condoms’ Tantric Pleasures offers tattoo-inspired texture with a pleasure shape in three designs: Titan, Maori, and Tribal, while Graphic Armor created KISS condoms with a photo of Gene Simmons’ award-winning demon tongue running up and down the shaft. Don’t forget, with Graphic Armor you can put any rockin’ design on your pecker and with Say It With a Condom you can rock out the packages with anything from your own band logo to silly sayings like, Rock Out with Your Cock Out. If that’s your thing.

For Ravers

Don’t head to Coachella, Burning Man, or Winter Music Conference armed with just some silly little glow sticks. Instead, turn your dick into a glow stick with one of ONE Condoms’ Glowing Pleasures. Don’t worry; it’s safe. It’s the first FDA-approved glow-in-the-dark condom. “They sell well for us around Halloween too,” says Louie King, marketing and communications manager at Global Protection, which owns ONE Condoms. “Lifebeat hands out tens of thousands of condoms a year for our outreach programs, and by far the most popular brand that we hand out is ONE Condoms,” says Nick Cucci, Executive Director of Lifebeat, Music Fights HIV/AIDS.

For Mack Daddies

Naked Condoms is catering to the upscale client with what Condomania’s Mandell calls, “The Roll’s Royce of condoms. “It’s high quality and the packaging is exquisite,” he says. Naked Condoms is featured in the Oscar swag bags and have been given to such classy lads as Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Bradley Cooper. Graphic Armor’s Glickman explains why it’s worth the high price ($6-pack for $15.00): “It’s the most ridiculously upscale condom line. It’s an advanced latex formulation, which produces very sensual, soft latex and it’s the highest-grade silicon lubricant you can find in a condom. And the shape, it’s like a Blimp, 1/3 up it flares out like the Hindenburg, which has a looser fit that allows the nerve endings of the penis to stay more receptive.”

For The Well-Endowed Man

What better second-skin for your anaconda than Snakeskin Brands’ aptly titled Anacondom latex condoms? They boast an inner circumference of 56mm. Of course the super-sized mainstay still comes in those shiny gold wrappers. “Yes, Trojan Magnum Thin is our very best seller. All of our top sellers are Trojans. People are still sticking to the name brand!” says Allison Johnston, marketing manager for Hustler Hollywood.

For The “But, I Can’t Feel Anything!” Whiner:

You know when it’s made in Japan and banned in America, it must be good. Right? So says Mandell, who swears by Okamoto’s .001mm condom. The FDA only allows .004mm, which Okamoto sells in the U.S., but you won’t find at drugstores. “It’s worth seeking these out. Far and wide the best condoms are made by Japanese companies. It’s so thin, you can barely feel it’s there and it’s still strong,” he says. The best drugstore option, though, is LifeStyles SKYN because it’s the first clinically approved polyisoprene condom, making it feel like the real thing. 97% of people who tried SKYN said they would recommend them.

For Her Added Pleasure

Textured condoms have reached new heights pushing the limits beyond the simply “ribbed” and into studs, spikes, bumps, and spirals. Dr. Morse, a brand ambassador for LifeStyles, says, “LifeStyles FUN BUMPS condoms are a party in both of your pants. They are packed with a twist, raised studs that maximize her pleasure and hint of mint makes you guys tingly in a good way.” Durex Performax Intense feature ribs and bumps in a lovely almost polka dot and stripes design, with a delay lubricant that some users have described as a “numbing” sensation.

For A Tasty Treat

The technology for flavored condoms has advanced since when they were first introduced in the ’90s. Now, they really do taste like orange, strawberry, and banana and not like a bike tire. ONE Condoms’ Flavor Waves has chocolate strawberry, bubblegum, island punch, banana split, and more. Durex’s Tropical Flavors includes orange, banana and strawberry fruit flavors. “Be careful, in the U.S. flavored means taste, but in Europe flavored means scented,” says Mandell, who notes that chocolate is popular because it’s intense flavor does the best at masking the condom taste.

Now that you’re all sorted with your new condom wardrobe, how about a little history lesson? Try using these Condom Fun Facts in your pillow talk…

15,000 BC: Cavemen used condoms? Historians report that the oldest known image of a sheathed penis was seen in cave paintings.

Late B.C./Early A.D.: Romans used hand-sewn pieces of linen (ouch) that fit over either the entire penis, just the tip, or INTO the urethra. (double ouch)

1400s-1700s: Renaissance men wrapped it up with condoms made of goat intestines or goat bladder. Scratchy linen was still in as well.

1855: Finally! The first rubber condom was made. Good news: Its thickness made their penises look bigger. The bad news: It’s hard to feel anything when your pecker is wrapped in a condom with the thickness equivalent to a bicycle inner tube.

1920: The first latex condom enters the marketplace courtesy of Young’s Rubber Company.

1957: Kudos to Durex for launching the first the first lubricated condom in the U.K. (Bonus Fun Fact: In 1996, Durex became first condom brand to have a website.)

1978: Students at University of California, Berkeley start National Condom Week.

1990s: Condom manufactures add flavored, colored, and a variety of textured styles to their product roster.

1991: The first condom commercial on TV aired during an episode of Herman’s Head (starring William Ragsdale and Hank Azaria) on Fox. Trojan’s Extra Strength brand nabbed this honor. Also in 1991, the first retail condom store, Condomania, opened in New York City.

2008: FDA approves the first clinically approved polyisoprene condom – LifeStyles SKYNE.

2014: Florida-based Graphic Armor launches the world’s first FDA-approved condoms to feature full color print right on the latex to personalize condoms.

Virtual Sex: The Dos and Don’ts

With more ways than ever to get down with your partner or someone you’re interested in from afar — that is, with all different mediums in which to have some sexy time with anyone in the world at the click of a button, there are bound to be some missteps involved with what’s being passed around.

There are also bound to be some major turn-ons associated with sexual activity that doesn’t have to be in person because that is the time when you can fully embrace your fantasies. There are secrecy and exposure involved in virtual sex that is in one way risky and another totally hot and anonymous. And now it’s easier (and in some ways safer) than it’s ever been.

The internet is one of the most massive and widely-used wish-granting tools in the modern world. No wonder we use it for ordering something as simple as groceries to buying the quintessential sex toy to searching for a third to join you and your partner for some discreet and sexy fun. However, for as many positives that the internet gives us, there’s just as much danger in what can be taken away, most obviously being one’s privacy.

With all of these new ways of transmitting our desires to one person or a whole group of them, you’re going to want to find ways to keep yourself protected however you can. So, you’ll need to be smart about the ways in which you’re having virtual sex. While it can be plenty of fun, it can also be unsafe.

That’s not to say that you need to give up all the ways in which you sext or video chat your long-distance lover, you’ll just need to have plenty of trust and communication built into these exchanges. You won’t want these photos or videos getting into the wrong hands.

Just like the real thing — if you’re having virtual sex, do it safely! Here are the dos and don’ts when dabbling with virtual sex.

Do Celebrate Your Body

Not only can virtual sex and sexting be a total turn on for the people involved, but it can also be a great way to celebrate your body (or to compliment your partners’!). First things first, there are tasteful ways to compose a nude. You can add some soft lighting, gorgeous lingerie, and angle the photo to best flatter your body. If you’re male-bodied, there are also nice ways to frame a photo without simply sending a picture of what you’re working with down below. Be creative! Don’t be shy!

Do Share Safely

It can be pretty risky to share explicit photos or videos with a complete stranger. If you are interested in this kind of anonymity though, just know that there are ways to keep yourself protected even when you’re having some virtual sexy time with someone you don’t know that well.

One of the first platforms that allowed for some secrecy when it came to exchanging photos and videos was Snapchat, who allowed to users send photos and videos with specific time limits and also had the ability to disappear after being seen by the user. The sender was notified, however, if the image had been screenshotted or else otherwise compromised.

There are a few ways in which you can send explicit content that will disappear after the recipient has viewed it. If you’re using iMessage, audio can disappear (for those moments in which you want to send some moans along) after a specific and brief amount of time.

These pieces of naughty evidence will still exist somewhere (like your partners’ favorites folder), but you will have more control knowing that it won’t be easily spread around. If you want to take an even safer avenue though, you can use certain protected apps or servers that only a password can give access to, you can make sure that your face or voice are not recognizable in the content, or and above all, you can share this content only with someone you know and trust.

Do Delete

Once you’ve sent a particularly explicit message, you won’t want to keep it around in case you lose track of your phone or laptop and you risk this private data being exposed. If you’re interested in keeping this explicit content for later, (whether it is yours or something that was sent to you, there are so many vorgasms to be had) then you can put it in a hidden folder (which can even be protected with a password) if you don’t want to delete them outright.

If you’ve sent any of these naughty tidbits to any former partners, ensure that they delete the content so they can’t use it for later, or in any type of revenge porn scenario. The worst outcome that could potentially come from virtual sex is that your body or private intimacy will be shared without your consent. Luckily, the legal system is catching up to this phenomenon, and will likely have your back if a situation gets out of hand.

Don’t Send Unless You’re Sure

The same as in person, don’t let anyone pressure you into virtual sex. If you’re not comfortable sharing images, videos, or audio that could be explicit, then don’t do it! If virtual sex is something that turns you on and you’re interested in exploring, then by all means try it (preferably with someone you know), but don’t do so just because someone is pressuring you. You don’t have to share any part of your body or yourself that you aren’t comfortable sharing.

Don’t Send Unsolicited

If you and a partner or potential love interest are getting hot and heavy with sexting and sharing photos, then it’s definitely time to up your game. Send the best photo you can to keep the momentum going. If you’re texting with a stranger or someone who has not expressed romantic or sexual interest in you, safe to say that you shouldn’t be sending that nude unsolicited.

 

Erika Jordan’s “Advice For Men” Textually Compatible

Time to stretch your fingers and thumb to become textually compatible. Erika Jordan is back with more video advice for men.

It’s challenging finding someone you are compatible with but thanks to modern technology it’s more difficult than ever before! You might be physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually compatible but are you TEXTUALLY compatible?

For more advice from Erika Jordan may I recommend The Ultimate Sex Game. 

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Erika Jordan’s Advice For Men – The Ultimate Sex Game

The Ultimate Sex Game! Want to be a better lover? This sex game will change your life! Learn how to play this fun, hot, sexy game with your new partner to determine what kind of loving she craves in bed! Playing this game will give you the tools to read her body like a cartographer reads maps. Not only that, but it will turn her on in the process and make you a better, more confident, and caring lover!

Let Erika Jordan give you the scoop. Watch the video above for details!

In a new relationship, it is often hard to figure out what your new partner may like between the sheets. Instead of wondering, play this hot, sexy Ultimate Sex Game to get an instant road map to your partner’s pleasure zones and learn what turns her on quickly!

How to Play:

  • Take turns with your partner trying various types of sexual touch. Try tickling, erotic massage, oral pleasure, and don’t forget to explore her whole body with various types of touch! Does she like it gentle and loving? Don’t she like it rough and dominating? Does she like it when you whisper sweet nothings in her ear, or talk dirty? Don’t forget her breasts, nipples, back of the neck, underarms, inner thighs, feet, and of course her clitoris.
  • Get her to rate her pleasure response from 1 (bleh) to 10 (OMG you are going to make me come!)
  • Now you have a roadmap for what types of touch drive your partner wild and make them go crazy in bed!

For more advice from Erika Jordan may I recommend How To Use Touch On A Date. 

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Erika Jordan’s “Advice for Men” – Dating A Mom

Let’s face it. If you are over thirty finding someone to date without children isn’t so easy and unless you hate kids there is no reason to avoid the women who have them. Erika Jordan tells you what you need to know before you try to date a mom.

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How To Get A Woman To Touch You

Human touch produces oxytocin, the bonding chemical in our brains that increases attraction and leads to intimacy. So how do you get to that first step? In this video, I give advice on how to get a woman to touch you, whether it’s a kiss on the cheek or feeling the fabric of your sweater. It’s not as hard as you think if you just use a few simple tricks and tips, but the rewards are definitely worth it because she’ll find herself more attracted to you, and let’s face it, more likely to touch you again! And definitely more likely to go on a second date.

Check out my other Advice for Men videos on this site, or on the Sexpert Media YouTube channel where I talk about everything from how to get a better erection to how to get a second date. You’re sure to find something you didn’t know about what women think and how we act. It’s my pleasure to share these secrets with you.

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Erika Jordan’s “Advice for Men” – How to Use Touch on a Date

In this video, I give valuable advice and insight into how women want to be touched on a date. Find out what they expect, what they crave and what they require to stay interested and find you very attractive. It’s a lot easier than you think if you just keep a few rules in mind, and learn how to go with the flow to keep the momentum going in a positive direction.

How can you read her body language? I’ve got tips for that. Make sure you’re not misreading signals and going in for a kiss when she’s not ready. There are sure-fire ways to know how to act and react, so get informed and get out there!

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Erika Jordan’s “Advice for Men” – Why Nice Guys Don’t Get The Girl

In this video, I tackle the subject of “nice guys.” Are you a nice guy? When someone calls you a nice guy, does it feel like a put down, or an accusation?

What does it mean to be a “nice” guy? Does it mean that you have so little else going for your personality that people describe you as “nice” as your defining characteristic? That’s something you might want to evaluate, and I’ve got some tips and advice to overcome that perception. It doesn’t mean you have to transform into a bad boy, or give up basic manners – not at all. It just means that you can benefit from improving your game to transform “nice” into “sexy,” “interesting,” “in shape” or “exciting.”

Women are attracted to men who are charismatic and appear to have something going on besides an easy-going nature. Take the time to figure out what you’re bringing to the table, whether it’s a killer body or a great sense of humor, a sense of adventure or a searing intellect. Everyone’s different, so discover your strengths and play to them so that you can stand out in a crowd.

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Erika Jordan’s “Advice for Men” – 4 Ways to Get to the Second Date

Are you good at first dates, but can’t seem to get that second chance? It could be one of these four things that I outline in this video. You’ve got to show confidence and be positive, or else what’s in it for her? Make sure you’re leaving her with the impression that you’re a fun person to be around and you’ll be having fun with or without her. That’s the moment when she’ll be texting for a second time around.

People want to be involved with someone who makes them feel good, and someone who – perhaps ironically – doesn’t need them to be happy. No one wants to be responsible for making someone else happy, they’d rather be lifted up themselves! It just makes sense.

So take a look at these four tips and let me know in the comments what works for you to get to that second date.

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Erika Jordan’s ‘Advice for Men’ – Should You Have Sex on the First Date?

In this video, I share some questions you can ask yourself before you jump into bed on a first date. It’s not about what’s good or bad, right or wrong – it all depends on the individuals involved and how they feel.

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