Chuck & Jo-Ann Bird

11 May 2016

breast cancer, breast cancer treatments, CalExotics, CalExotics Expert Sexperts, Inspire™ collection, Living Beyond Breast Cancer®, National Women's Health Week, Sex Toys

This week is National Women’s Health Week (May 8-14)! It is led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the goal is to empower women to make their health a priority. For more information, click here. We think that being healthy also includes your sexual health and CalExotics agrees. In fact, CalExotics number one goal is to promote sexual health and wellness and everything they do revolves around that goal.

With that goal in mind along with honoring National Women’s Health Week, CalExotics and Living Beyond Breast Cancer® (LBBC), a non-profit organization supporting women affected by breast cancer, have partnered together to launch a new product line called Inspire™. The Inspire™ collection consists of sexual health and wellness products designed specifically to address the sexual side effects of breast cancer treatments. According to Susan Colvin, Founder and CEO of CalExotics, “The positive effects of taking care of one’s sexual health are well-documented and these products will help support women as they rebuild their sexual lives going forward.” What’s also great is that the Inspire™ collection supports and generously donates proceeds from these items to Living Beyond Breast Cancer®.

Well as Clinical Sexologists and Sex Therapists, we absolutely love all the products in the Inspire™ collection! In fact, here are a few of our favorites:

Inspire™ Weighted Silicone Kegel Training Kit: Exercising the Pelvic floor or PC muscle is very important to your sexual health. The basic function of the pelvic floor or PC muscle is to hold the bladder, uterus and bowels in place. It also helps with incontinence. Having strong pelvic floor muscles can increase the chances of having orgasms and increase the frequency of the orgasms. The Kegel Training Kit offers three gradually increasing weights. This is important, just like in regular weight training you want to increase as you go to strengthen the muscle. Not only can the exercisers be used to increase the strength of your PC muscles but they can be used to create arousing sensations as you move it around. You can benefit sexually from the Kegel exercisers and have some fun while exercising!
Inspire™ Silicone Dilator Kit: Pelvic radiation therapy can shorten or narrow the vagina making it difficult for sex. Chemotherapy can cause symptoms of early menopause which include vaginal dryness, vaginal tightness and painful intercourse. Vaginal dilators can help women manage the symptoms by keeping the vagina flexible and elastic which can improve their physical comfort with vaginal intercourse. This Silicone Dilator Kit has 5 gradual sizes that are ergonomically curved to make using them easier. The finger loop helps you to control the dilator but you can also insert a vibrator to use it for pleasurable purposes. They can also improve your sexual pleasure since they have 10 functions of vibration as well!
Inspire™ Vibrating Ultimate Wand: When people think of vibrating wands, most people just think of pleasure. However, there are many sexual health benefits of using vibrating wands. The Vibrating Ultimate Wand can help increase arousal, decrease pain during and after intercourse, and ward off vaginal dryness and weakening of muscle tone in pelvic area. It can also promote vaginal health and blood flow circulation and provide sexual stimulation which releases hormones that can positively affect your overall health and well being. The Vibrating Ultimate Wand is a USB rechargeable wand that offers 10 functions of vibration, pulsation and escalation which is perfectly designed to increase your circulation as well as your pleasure. Perfect for your sexual health and your pleasure!

These are just a few of our favorites from the Inspire collection. So, in honor of National Women’s Health Week, we hope you feel inspired to make your sexual health and wellness a priority. So check out the Inspire™ collection and support Living Beyond Breast Cancer® at the same time!

8 Things We Love About The Silhouette S8!

05 May 2016

8 Things We Love, CalExotics, CalExotics Expert Sexperts, Sex Toys, Silhouette S8

As CalExotics’ Expert Sexperts, we have the pleasure of reviewing all types of sex toys and pleasure products. There are so many toys that we like that have different shapes and features available. However, we are super excited about the Silhouette S8. Why? Well, we have 8 reasons. Here are the 8 things we love about the Silhouette S8:

1. The Design – The S8 is an ergonomically curved, uniquely shaped, body forming massager that has pleasure ridges at the base which are perfect for additional sensations all over the vulva area (or any erogenous zone). In fact, the design is so great that CalExotics actually won the Red Dot Award in product design for the Silhouette S8!

So, what is the Red Dot Award in product design? According to the Red Dot website, “The Product Design competition has existed since 1954. Its award, the Red Dot, is an internationally recognised quality seal.The best products receive the Red Dot: Best of the Best award.” Participants from 57 nations registered 5,200 products for the Red Dot Award in product design for 2016. Forty one experts compose the Red Dot jury, with judges from all around the world to ensure strict standards and fairness. Way to go CalExotics!!

2. Flexibility – The S8 flexes and bends for multi-directional positioning. This means you can literally twist it, turn it and bend it in lots of different positions… the pleasurable benefits of this flexibility are endless!

3. Premium Silicone – The S8 is made of luxurious, body safe Premium Silicone, which maintains and retains body heat, and has a soft, satin finish. Love that!

4. Intense Incremental Speed Control – The S8 offeres intense incremental speeds which are easy to control. To adjust the speed, simply press and hold down the button on the side of the base until the desired speed is reached. Easy!

5. USB Rechargeable – The S8 is USB rechargeable which means you do not need batteries! It comes with a universal USB charging cord that works with most computers or smart phone wall chargers so you can charge this massager when you’re on the go. It completely charges in 2 ½ hours. The rechargeable battery runs for 30 minutes on high speed and 75 minutes on low speed. This makes the S8 an environmentally friendly product as well!

6. Security Travel Lock – The S8 comes with a security travel lock feature so you don’t have to worry about it accidentally turning on as you got through security. Embarrassing!! It comes with easy to follow operating instructions on how to lock and unlock this massager.

7. Waterproof – The S8 is 100% waterproof, which provides lots of thrills in and out of the shower! However, you do NOT want to charge this massager near water.

8. Colors – The S8 comes in 3 colors: pink, purple and red.

Bonuses – The S8 has a 1 year warranty and it comes in a sturdy box which is great for storage!

So, if you haven’t already, check out the Silhouette S8.

5 Tips to Spice Up Your Valentine’s Day!

10 Feb 2016

5 Tips, creative, flirt, novelty, Passion, play, romance, Sex, Sex Toys, tips, Valentine's Day

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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! With that in mind, we’d like to offer you ways to help you enjoy yourselves more as couples in the bedroom. Here are 5 simple tips to spice up your Valentine’s Day:

Flirt – During your courtship, you would flirt all the time with your partner, but once you became a couple, that ended. Why? Just because the initial courtship is over doesn’t mean the romance or playfulness has to be over. Flirt with your lover. Leave a note on the pillow telling them you’ll miss them when you go to work. Make your partner feel wanted. If you know your partner is having a rough day, send them a flirty text. Sexting is perfectly legal and should be encouraged among adult couples. It may certainly help that insurance seminar go faster!
Be Creative – One of the pitfalls of being an established couple is that you both get a sense of how to satisfy the other. That’s a good thing, but being slavish to those tactics can also make your bedroom play more routine. So, mix it up. Most people use the senses of sight and touch during sex, but you have five senses. Use them all. Scented candles, ambient music to drown out the neighbor watching the zombie movie marathon, flavored lotions or even something as simple as a new negligee can add enough spice to keep your bedroom play from becoming routine.
In the Mood? – In caveman days, a common way for a man to advise a woman he was feeling amorous was to club her over the head and drag her to his cave. In our experience, that method hasn’t evolved as much as we would like. When you’re in the mood, try some new ways of initiating sex instead of just saying, “Hey, you wanna?” If your partner has had a bad day, and you figure sex won’t be on the agenda for the evening, you can turn it around. Pamper your partner with a prepared meal, a soothing massage, and some alone time. If you have kids, send them out to the movies for the night to break the nightly routine a bit so you can focus on your partner. Sometimes, the key to romance can be as simple as having an empty house.
Try Something New – When we’re kids, we would get all excited about birthdays and the holidays, because it usually meant new toys. Well, now that we’re adults, we can still have the same excitement, because they make toys for us grown-ups, too! Take a trip to a local couples store or surf the Internet. Look at them together and explore.
PLAY! – Aristotle once wrote that there is nothing so serious as a child at play. Well, as sexologists, we can tell you that adults can be darn serious about their play, as well! Remember that sex can and should be fun. It’s something you do together for each other’s enjoyment and fulfillment. It’s okay to laugh in the bedroom (though, laughing and pointing is a no-no!). Accept that there may be interruptions from time to time — the phone ringing, the baby crying, the dog needs to go outside — and deal with them. Heck, when they play baseball and have a rain delay, they still finish the game when the rain stops. Why should sex have to stop completely just because the neighbor wanted to borrow a cup of sugar. Give them the sugar, and get back in the bedroom and re-establish the mood. Make it Game-On instead of Game Over.

If you follow even one of these tips, you will breathe more life into your alone time together this Valentine’s Day!

Yours in Passion and Romance,

Jo-Ann and Chuck

The Naugthy List: Top 10 Very, Very Hot Sex Toys for the Holidays!

The holidays are here! Want some not so silent nights? Want to be a little naughty and nice? Want to give a gift that keeps on giving? Try stuffing your partner’s stocking with some very naughty sex toys! Not sure where to start? We have made shopping for the perfect sex toy super easy. We have compiled a list of the top 10 naughtiest and very, very hot sex toys of 2015.

These sex toys are not only best sellers, but they have also received 5 FEATHERS (very, very hot!) on the official Love Bird’s Feathers Rating Scale™. Meaning after using any of these sex toys, it will take all 5 feathers to cool you off!!

1. Entice™ Beverly™

2. Scandal™ Over the Bed Cross

3. Scandal™ Feather Crop

4. Scandal™ Collar Body Restraint

5. Entice™ Universal Cuff Links

6. Entice™ Passion Wheel

7. Posh® 10-Function Silicone Fluttering Butterfly

8. Coco licious™ Silicone Kegel Trainer

9. Embrace™ Foreplay

10. Silhouette S19 – (Review starts at 44:04)

Don’t forget the lube, batteries (if needed) and make sure the toy is all charged, cleaned and ready to go. And remember to be discreet. This is not the gift you want your grandmother or child to open accidentally! Hope you have a very, very hot and happy holiday season!

The Scandal™ Bicep Restraint Review

08 May 2015

BDSM, CalExotics, CalExotics Expert Sexperts, Scandal™ Bicep Restraint, sex toy review, Sex Toys

1= “Not so hot” to 5 = “VERY, VERY HOT!”

“The hotter the product is, the more feathers it will take to cool you off!”

So, how many FEATHERS did we give the Scandal™ Bicep Restraint? Watch the video below to find out!

The Scandal™ Feather Crop Review

07 Apr 2015

BDSM, CalExotics, Fifty Shades of Grey, Sex Toy Reviews, Sex Toys, The Scandal™ Feather Crop Review

1= “Not so hot” to 5 = “VERY, VERY HOT!”

“The hotter the product is, the more feathers it will take to cool you off!”

So, how many FEATHERS did we give the Scandal™ Feather Crop? Watch the video below to find out!

The Scandal™ Over the Door Cross Review

07 Apr 2015

BDSM, CalExotics, Fifty Shades of Grey, Scandal™ Over the Door Cross, Sex Toy Reviews, Sex Toys

1= “Not so hot” to 5 = “VERY, VERY HOT!”

“The hotter the product is, the more feathers it will take to cool you off!”

So, how many FEATHERS did we give the Scandal™ Over the Door Cross? Watch the video below to find out!

Scandal™ Over the Bed Cross Review

07 Apr 2015

CalExotics, Scandal™ Over the Bed Cross, Sex Toy Reviews, Sex Toys

This month, as CalExotics Expert Sexperts, we were sent another great product to review. Just a reminder, each product is rated, by our testers (2 couples), using The Love Bird’s Feathers Rating Scale™:

1= “Not so hot” to 5 = “VERY, VERY HOT!”

“The hotter the product is, the more feathers it will take to cool you off!”

So, how many FEATHERS did we give the Scandal™ Over the Bed Cross? Watch the video below to find out!

Who Is That Easter Basket For?

11 Mar 2015