Video: KY Airing National Commercial Featuring Lesbian Couple

For years, we have all seen the clever commercials for KY products.  They all vary to some degree, but usually, they feature a heterosexual couple talking about "the big moment".  Well, starting September 5th, "Alex and Emma", the line's first lesbian couple, joins their ranks.  From KY:

"K-Y® Brand has been a longtime supporter of the LGBT community. Since 1998, it has sponsored dozens of LGBT and HIV/AIDS organizations and has also participated at LGBT Pride celebrations and other community events. Gay male couples have been featured in print advertising since 2008 and now the brand is continuing its tradition of support and visibility with advertising that is inclusive of lesbian couples."

Here is the commercial.  Short but sweet.



Why KY Intense?  It's engineered specifically for women.  They like to call it the "Intense Effect".  It has worked on 75% of their test subjects.

I'm curious to see if the commercial will ever see the light of day on primetime television.  If and when it does, I'm sure the boycott police will be in full force.  "Boycott the network that aired this commercial."  "Boycott the program the commercial aired on."  "Boycott every store that KY Intense is sold in."  Great in theory, except KY Intense is sold in every major drug store chain - including Target and the fundie beloved Walmart.

There is only one reason why the evangelical right haven't blown up the airwaves about this already:  This is very low on their radar.  It's not like they're monitoring the advertising campaigns for sex lubricant products on a regular basis.

Dear lord, I hope not.  I'd hate to think that I have something in common with the evangelical right.  ;)

Ashton Kutcher Proves Himself Surprisingly Intelligent And Understanding Of Women

I know what you're thinking.  "He couldn't possibly have typed the name Ashton Kutcher on purpose."  I'm having to check my sources a third time and make sure they're correct.  Yes, it's Ashton Kutcher.  OK, moving on.

This story is about a month old, but I thought I would still share it.  While doing a press junket for the movie 'Friends With Benefits', Natalie Portman and Ashton were talking to a writer for Movieline.com, they started talking about how they were using fake condoms during fake sex scenes.  Then out of nowhere, Ashton said the following:

"I think there’s so much that’s not said about sex in our country, even from an educational level.(snip) Sometimes we get to make films that open things up that people can talk about, and one of the interesting things (snip) is that, especially for women in the sex education process in schools, the one thing they teach about is how to get pregnant or how to not get pregnant, but they don't really talk about sex as a point of pleasure for women.
The male orgasm is actually right there and readily available to learn about because it's actually part of the reproductive cycle, but the female orgasm isn't really talked about in the education system. Part of that creates a place where women aren't empowered around their own sexuality and their own sexual selves, and from a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that's empowered with her own sexuality is a powerful thing.

And if we can give teenage people something to think about from a sex perspective, I would say it would be to open a conversation where women are empowered with their own sexual experiences from an educational level as well as an entertainment level."

Wow.  I'm impressed.  To see a message like that come from someone that just a few years ago was doing 'Dude, Where's My Car?' is quite shocking to see.  Actually, to see it from any male celebrity is somewhat shocking.  He was taking a bit of a risk by putting that out there.  But he makes a valid point.

Most teenage girls learn safe sex in school, but not how to make themselves feel good.  Boys figure that out by the time they're 11.  From what I've seen, (again, from what I've seen) teenage girls learn techniques on giving blowjobs, not sexual empowerment, from their best friends.  They don't discuss masturbation or orgasms very often.  Most wouldn't have an enough of an open relationship with their mother to talk about sex or sexual pleasure.

As you go through high school, you date Johnny Football Quarterback, who comes in two minutes, and could care shit less if you come or not.  Then college comes and you're dating some douchey fratboy that sees you more as a trophy piece than as a girlfriend.

Before you know it, you're 25 and you've never had an orgasm, whether it has been by yourself or with another person.  Some people, unfortunately,are just not wired to be orgasmic.  Sadly, the majority of women that experience the 25 and "O"-less scenario are because, over the course of their sexual lives, they have been treated as objects instead of women.

They have been inundated in entertainment and social media with a lack of strong, sexually empowered women.  They have gotten used to terms like "slut, ho, and whore" being used to describe someone.  These words were originally used to degrade a woman, now some women use them to greet each other.

What Ashton said may have come out a little clumsy, but I got his point.  Things need to change in this world. It's time for a educational revolution of sorts.

Tosh.0 Inadvertently Teaches Lesson On Sexuality

Earlier this week, Comedy Central's Tosh.0 had a segment titled 'Gay Porn Viagra Boner Challenge'.  The point of the "challenge" was to get all of the male staff in the office to wear revealing sweatpants, have them each take a Viagra, stand along a row for two hours and watch hardcore gay porn.  The first one to get an erection loses.  Watch what happens.(I promise you, you won't see anything gross.)

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That's right.  Even with Viagra, not one erection.  Like After Elton noted, they unwittingly proved a point:

The whole exercise was completely juvenile. But personally, I didn't think it was at all offensive. In a strange way it helped advance the notion that people aren't turned gay by gay imagery. You either have a same sex attraction — or you don't. And not even Viagra and two hours of extreme gay porn are going to change matters.

Either you're gay or you're not.  Porn can't influence that.  Not even Viagra can influence that.  When I was young, my mother wouldn't let me listen to Elton John or George Michael CDs because she thought that their "homosexual lifestyles" would rub off on me through their music.  Earlier this week, in an Arkansas grocery store, there were shields placed over the Us magazine cover of Elton John and David Furnish posing with their baby boy, because customers complained that they felt that it would influence their children to become gay.

I encourage you to check out a new blog.  It's called Born This Way.  It has reader submitted stories and photos of their earliest gay memory.  You would be surprised to find with some people it's as early as 3 or 4. Whether we're straight, gay, bi or transgendered, it's a part of us.  It would be ridiculous to think of our sexuality as something so superficial to be changed by just watching a video.