The Blowfish Blog

Casting Call!

We are looking for real-life triads (three people who regularly have sex together) for our next movie. If you are in such a relationship, and are interested, drop a note to us at casting@blowfish.com for details!

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Blowfish on Twitter!

If you are on Twitter, we are, too! We’ve just started using Twitter to let our loyal customers know about breaking specials and news. You can find us tweeting at BlowfishTwitter.

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“Crash Pad Series” and “Bondage Boob Tube” Win Big!

We are simply bursting with pride that two of our very own releases won awards at the 2008 Feminist Porn Awards! In particular, The Crash Pad Series, Volume 1 won Hottest Dyke Film, and Bondage Boob Tube won Hottest Kink Film! Congratulations to Shine Louise Houston and Madison Young, the respective directors!

• The Crash Pad Series, Volume 1
• Bondage Boob Tube

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Don’t Mess With Texas!

A reader sent in this item: A Federal Appeals Court has overturned the Texas sex toys ban. Yes! Finally, some common sense.

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Blowfish Makes The Village Voice

We’d like to extend a big old fishy “Thank you!” to Tristan Taormino for her lovely mentions of us in the 2007 Village Voice Gift Guide. Thank you, Tristan!

And if you haven’t picked up the three volumes of Tristan’s wonderful Chemistry series (1, 2, 3), do not wait another minute.

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Who thinks of the bicycles?

In Scotland, a man has been placed on three years probation, and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for three year, for having sex with a bicycle.

In private.

So much in private that those who discovered him had to go get a master key in order to open the door to discover him in a compromising position with his bicycle.

We are still trying to figure out exactly what the crime is. The charges were “a sexually aggravated breach of the peace by conducting himself in a disorderly manner and simulating sex.” Simulating sex is a crime? And you can “breach the peace” while behind locked doors with no one outside the wiser as to what is going on?

And if the cleaners had burst in on him and he had just been taking matters in hand, as it were, would that have been a crime?

Somehow, the fact that the bicycle-fuckers of the world have been put on notice that their perversions will not be tolerated even in private does not make us rest easier.

And, most importantly, is there a market for bicycle porn? If so, why are we not carrying any?

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Help Birds!

As you may well be aware, the San Francisco Bay was recently the site of a major oil spill. Over 58,000 gallons of heavy oil was dumped into the bay when a freighter hit one of the supports of the Bay Bridge. Hundreds of birds were caught in the spill and covered with oil.

The organization that leads the rescue efforts, the International Bird Rescue Research Center, has been one of the recipients of donations from Blowfish for quite some time. We donate a percentage of the sale price of every I Rub My Duckie, I Rub My Pengie, and every other I Rub My … toy that we sell.

Because of the severity of the spill, we are doubling the amount we contribute to the IBRRC for the months of October, November and December. If you have been eyeing one of these cute and wonderful toys, now you can purchase it knowing that you are also helping real waterbirds!

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Paste Magazine on Child Prostitution

Blowfish has always had a strong pro-sex-work ethic, and wishes that archaic laws in the US against such were brought up to date. However, it is always good to remember that we do live in a world such as this:

“I started researching this subject matter and was horrified to find out not only that it wasn’t an isolated case, but that well over two million kids—some younger even than one year old—are kidnapped and sold to prostitution, sexual slavery and sexual exploitation worldwide every year.”

Whatever approach we take to the liberalizing of sexual commerce has to take account of this, and find ways to make sure it is eradicated.

[via warrenellis.com]

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Norma, Norma…

If you go to an opera about a pagan who abandons the mother of his two children to run off with a young virgin, causing the mother to plot to kill her (and his) own children, but at the last moment the mother denounces him to the Druids, and they cast both of them onto a funeral pyre…

… of course the most scandalous thing in the whole evening will be a perfume ad in the program.

[via Fleshbot]

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