Greetings!

Hello Internets!

I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Meme (pronounced: mee-mee) and I’m so excited to be blogging here at Vibrator.com . Some of you may know me from Girlspoke or Dirtyspoke, where I write about sexy stuff and do reviews of other sex writers from around the blogosphere. I love reading and writing about sex, erotica, exploration, fantasies and all that kind of good stuff.

One thing you should know about me is I hate clichés, clichés about women, about men, about sex and all the things force fed to us by the media. I don’t let anyone else dictate whether my desires and preferred activities are ‘perversions’. You see, many years ago I read a book that changed my life. And no I’m not talking about the Good Book, I’m talking about Henry Miller’s Opus Pistorum. It was a true watershed period in my sexual history when I realized my pleasure was solely dependent on my preferences and no one could make me ashamed of what turned me on. It may seem like a simple concept but it is in fact difficult to implement especially when as women we are bombarded with the idea that our pleasure is secondary to things like children, husbands and, god forbid, shopping.

Oh yeah, another thing you should know about me. I hate shopping. Can’t stand the crowds, the dressing room humiliation, the lack of shoes in my size. Thank god for the internet and e-commerce otherwise my closet (and my sex toy chest) would be empty.So last night a good friend sent me a link to a news story about women and shopping…

“NEW YORK: For most women, the choice between sex and a new wardrobe is simple — they go for the clothes.

Women on average say they would be willing to give up sex for 15 months for a closet full of new apparel, with 2 per cent ready to abstain from sex for three years in exchange for new duds, according to a new survey by consumer products giant Unilever of about 1,000 women in 10 US cities. Sixty-one per cent of women polled said it would be worse to lose their favourite article of clothing than give up sex for a month.

Ugh, personally I would purge my entire closet today if it meant guaranteed orgasms for even a month.

The article continues…

“The study also suggested that clothes often wear better than relationships. Seventy per cent also said they believed in love at first sight when it came to finding the perfect article of clothing, while only 54 per cent of women were as confident in spotting the right man.

Nearly half of the women said their favourite article of clothing was more reliable than their man in giving them confidence and making them feel sexy.” [via Reuters]

How can you feel love for an article of clothing? Maybe the English language is just limited and women are equating a warm/fuzzy cashmere feeling for love? I have no clue. Personally I prefer the warm/fuzzy post-orgasm feeling to a cashmere sweater, besides it’s a bitch getting lube out of cashmere.