Tristan Knows Best

Our favorite anal queen (not to mention director, columnist and sexpert extraordinare) Tristan Taormino takes on 2007 with a list of the best and worst of sex in the quickly-becoming-a-memory last year.

Here are a few good ones:

Best Perversion of a Common Household Appliance:
British sex-toy company Love Honey began selling the Tingle Tip Electric Toothbrush Clitoral Stimulator, which turns an electric toothbrush into a vibrator for your lady parts. After the Love Honey site posted a picture of the Tingle Tip atop an actual Oral B toothbrush, Procter & Gamble lawyers sent a 66-page cease-and-desist letter warning them to take it down or else. Love Honey complied, but the company continues to sell the attachment, which could help Alabama vibrator-lovers slip under the radar.


Dumbest Anti-Porn Campaign:
Right-wing organization Morality in Media dedicated a week to the WRAP (White Ribbons Against Pornography) campaign, asking people to wear white ribbons to increase awareness about the horrors of pornography. Along with ribbons, communities were encouraged to produce programs like a sing-along for elementary-school children called "Protect Their Minds" and a garbage-can labeling campaign with "We CAN Keep Our Minds Clean" stickers. Other national organizations joined in—my favorite was Citizens for Families, which posted the following reminder on its website: "In Utah, White Ribbon week will be during the months of February or March, so as not to conflict with Green Ribbon week, Red Ribbon week, and Family Week."


Worst Legal Ruling:
By refusing to hear the appeal in the case of Sherri Williams v. Attorney General of Alabama, the Supreme Court basically upheld Alabama's ban on sex toys in the state, which prohibits the distribution of "any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for anything of pecuniary value." Williams has fought for Alabamans to be able to buy dildos, vibrators, and other toys for eight years, and says she will continue to: "My motto has been they are going to have to pry this vibrator from my cold, dead hand." Former gubernatorial candidate Loretta Nall is proposing that people send sex toys to Troy King, the state attorney general of Alabama, to encourage him not to waste money prosecuting sex-toy shops.

Check out the whole list here. (villagevoice.com via world-sex-news.com)

How can selling dildos and vibrators - oh, I'm sorry, "any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for anything of pecuniary value" - possibly be illegal anywhere? How messed up is that?!? So, if I'm reading the ban correctly, you can GIVE AWAY dildos, you just can't SELL them. Yes? Is that right? Wow. I give up on trying to understand.

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-J.D. Bauchery