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BUSINESS
LOCAL WARMING
New products designed to heat up the bedroom
warm up to create a heightened sexual experience. The
merchandise ranges from heated vibes to warming lube
dispensers, and they work by causing blood flow to the
The bedroom heats up this summer with products that
“merchandise in your pants.”
Emmeline Peaches, a sex toy reviewer who has done
some road testing on heated sex toys, told us, “I’ve used
a few heated vibes in my time as a reviewer and I’ve
never been disappointed by them. The warming sensation they create resonates
throughout the entire area as they come into contact, which creates a comforting
but also highly sensual experience. Suddenly all your focus goes to that point
of warmth and as such, any vibrations or motions that you feel gets amplified
tenfold.”
Good times. These things should be marketed to guys who are too lazy to do
foreplay and want their sex partner to be ready to go before they even get in there.
“They’re also great for people suffering with cramps or chronic pain, as the heat
acts to soothe the area,” she says.
“Because of this I see heated toys as almost healing in how they facilitate sexual
pleasure. They definitely bring something wholly unique to the bedroom.” Add
some cannabis lube to enhance the sexual healing!
SEXPLORATIONS | By Anka Radakovich
THE SEXY WARM-UP
Here’s a great solution to cold sex toys, including
glass dildos, metal vibes and those oh-so-cold nipple
clamps.
Warm is a heated clutch, like a heating pad for your
sex toys. According to its inventors, a couple who
got the idea in bed when one of them heated up a
sex toy, it provides a “penetratingly delicious sensory
experience.”
Janine, who came from the luxury spa industry,
says that the warming pad “can provide a whole other
level of amazing” and can be used with sex toys that
people already own. Old sex toys can become “new
and exciting again,” she says. And the device looks
discreet and can sit anywhere in the house, without
anyone having to hide it in the closet before the cable
guy or babysitter comes over.
The warmer also works for men’s toys, like the
Fleshlight, or other “do it yourself” toys. And who
likes a cold butt plug? Anyone? This thing turns that
freezing butt plug into a hot beef injection.
“We have found that the sex toys start to feel
amazing after about 10 minutes,” says Janine—and
they only need another five or ten minutes to fully
warm up. Users have told Janine that they get hot just
knowing their toys are getting warm. “Turning on the
clutch sends a powerful message,” she says, “that hot,
sexy fun is coming.”
Get in on the hot fun at ExperienceWarm.com. It
retails for $149.
TOUCHING THE HOT SPOTS
Touch is an automated dispenser for warmed lubes
and oils. It’s like a personal “lube station” that sits on
your nightstand. Compatible with all liquid lubricants
(water, anal, hybrid, silicone), Touch warms liquids
within two minutes and then dispenses directly into
the palm of your hand. It features three different
dispensed amounts, and users can also easily insert
a sex toy for men into the opening to automatically
fill up with warm liquid. Buy someone this and he’ll
never want to leave the house.
“Touch was an offshoot of the company’s namesake
product, Warm,” says Janine, and both were created
largely due to the fact that heat facilitates intimacy.
“Using heat allows muscles to relax and expand for
penetration and prolonged stimulation. It triggers
our evolutionary brains into feeling comfort and
security, thus allowing ourselves to be vulnerable
enough to share an intimate moment like an orgasm.
Heat awakens your body’s most intimate pleasure
receptors, sending them into overdrive, making them
highly sensitive to touch and therefore creating this
euphoric, sensational explosion.”
“Warm, Inc. launched Touch at the beginning of
2018 with successful pre-sales through its website
that shipped in time for Valentine’s Day,” she says.
“Since then, it’s been picked up by fine adult stores
throughout the USA/Canadian markets and is
available through popular distributors, Entrenue and
Nalpac.” It retails for $119 at ExperienceWarm.com.
GOOD VIBES, HOT SEX
XR Brands has cooked up a line of heated vibes
called Some Like It Hot. The line of luxury silicone
massagers are designed with a self-warming function.
Their collection of warming vibrators “explore a
relatively uncharted element of ecstasy,” they say. We
like to think of it as Some Like a Little More Foreplay.
The Heat line was created because “There’s
nothing quite like sensation play and temperature is
an essential feature that’s missing from the luxury
market,” according to XR Brands Director of Sales
and Marketing Rebecca Weinberg. “Heat gives
consumers a little “extra with their high-end purchase
and it’s remarkable what a difference adding some
warmth to a sex toy can make.”
The four-piece collection includes Fever, a wand
vibrator that heats to 95 degrees (35 degrees Celsius);
Flushed, a ribbed rabbit vibe that heats up to 107.7
degrees (42 degrees Celsius); Spark, a smooth rabbit-
style vibe for hot, “smoove” sex; and Blaze, a G-spot
vibe. They all heat up in five minutes. The Blaze
9x (AF154) self-heating vibrator is the line’s best
seller, according to Robert Fuller, marketing and sales
administrator, and retails for $94.99.
For more, visit XRBrands.com.
Anka Radakovich is a legendary sex columnist who wrote a ground-
breaking column for Details magazine. Currently she writes for British
GQ and Sexpert.com. She is the author of three books, including her
newest, The Wild Girls Club, Part 2. She is also a certified sexologist.
Follow Anka Radakovich on Twitter: @ankarad.
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