"I Love Lamp"

by Jen Nedeau · 2009-04-08 13:23:00 UTC
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I enjoyed this article "Milan Preview: 'Love Design' Makes Sex Toys Vibrate" on FastCompany about how sex toys have become a big business and may be seen as an "antidote to the downbeat mood which will no doubt oppress both the sprawling fairgrounds and the modest exhibitions tucked in the back of courtyards."

It's about time we didn't just use dolled up, scantily clad females to sell sex, but the actual pleasure products themselves that stimulate more than meets the eye. Perhaps by putting few household pleasure products in everyone's living room, it will change the Puritanical society we live in and make sex not so taboo after all.

Here are few of my favorites with the descriptions from the FastCompany article:

Alexa Lixfeld, a former fashion model based in Hamburg, created a cutlery collection called Metamorphose in which the spoons are half-formed female figures and the forks are male.

This bedside lamp by Matteo Cibic is part of a series of household furnishings that double as pleasure devices. In this case, the lamp changes color when a silicone sex toy is removed from its base.

Waveform by Sakurako Shimizu is a collection of necklaces and rings laser cut in the shape of digital sound waves representing the voice of French actress Jeanne Moreau reading a love poem called "Cet Amour" by Jacques Prévert.

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What do you think - is it acceptable to bring these loves designs into your home? How do you work to make sex and female pleasure less taboo and more widely understood and accepted?

Jen Nedeau Jen Nedeau is a media relations professional and a writer based in New York City.
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