Dame Products "Fin" Vibrator Product Review: A vibrator for post-pelvic pain solo sex

Dame Products "Fin" Vibrator Product Review: A vibrator for post-pelvic pain solo sex

Some women might fear that self-stimulation could replicate the pain they've so frequently experienced with sex. While sex shops are filled with cylindrical vibrators and toys, there aren't many options for female shoppers seeking a decidedly non-penis-evoking experience.

Enter: Dame Products' Fin vibrator.

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Let's talk about sex. (+ vaginal pain + patient-provider communication)

Let's talk about sex. (+ vaginal pain + patient-provider communication)

For years, my pelvic pain prevented me from having the fun, spontaneous, gloriously cliché 20-something sex that my friends were enjoying. You know – the kind of sex that they gushed about at brunch.  Sex that was breaking their hearts and exhilarating their sense of liberated womanhood and adulthood.  Sex that their doctors were lecturing them about.  I couldn’t have that kind of sex because my vagina (and vulva and back and thighs) were excruciatingly painful.  That was my dirty little secret.

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Top 10 Girl Power Goods of 2016 (some oldies, all goodies): Inspire Santé's List

Top 10 Girl Power Goods of 2016 (some oldies, all goodies): Inspire Santé's List

These are my favorite lady products of 2016, but that doesn't mean they were all born in 2016.  They're the sweet little nothings that made an arduous year (all those POTUS debates, amiright?) just a bit better or comfier or happier.  So, without further adieu, enjoy!

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SEX: my candidate for 'word of the year' in 2017

SEX: my candidate for 'word of the year' in 2017

Sex proved a bit tricky to untangle. I looked it up in every dictionary in the house, but dictionaries are surprisingly and disappointingly silent on this point.  Maybe the anti-sex-ed lobby is in bed with Merriam-Webster, or maybe there are fears that sexing up (definition below) the dictionary would cause the mass removal of dictionaries from American family rooms and classrooms.  Even today, 20 years later, Dictionary.com provides a stunningly unhelpful definition.

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