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Making Money Off Sex (Quietly)
Monday November 6, 2006
I've always maintained that while porn will never be completely mainstream, sex toys are heading for the shelves of Wal-Mart sometime soon. SSL, the parent company that owns Durex caused a stir (and a financial boom for shareholders) last year when they got their new line of vibrators in pharmacies in the UK, and popular drug store chains in Canada.
The climb to the top continues with the introduction of Kama Sutra products to Duane Read drugstores in Manhattan. The Kama Sutra line, which offer high end packaging on “sensual” products like edible warming oils, scented and flavored talcs, and a line of lubricants, have been one of the only brand names in sex stores for years.
This is hardly the first time a drug store or non-adult store has carried flavored lotions, but the size of Duane Reade must be attracting attention.
This isn't yet an example of the complete integration of sex toys into mainstream culture, as is evidenced by Duane Reade's corporate silence on the new product lines. All the press about this has been generated by the Kama Sutra company and not Duane Reade, whose spokespeople refused to comment in the press.
Read more - Duane Reade Adds Erotic Products To Its Shelves
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Monday November 6, 2006
I've always maintained that while porn will never be completely mainstream, sex toys are heading for the shelves of Wal-Mart sometime soon. SSL, the parent company that owns Durex caused a stir (and a financial boom for shareholders) last year when they got their new line of vibrators in pharmacies in the UK, and popular drug store chains in Canada.
The climb to the top continues with the introduction of Kama Sutra products to Duane Read drugstores in Manhattan. The Kama Sutra line, which offer high end packaging on “sensual” products like edible warming oils, scented and flavored talcs, and a line of lubricants, have been one of the only brand names in sex stores for years.
This is hardly the first time a drug store or non-adult store has carried flavored lotions, but the size of Duane Reade must be attracting attention.
This isn't yet an example of the complete integration of sex toys into mainstream culture, as is evidenced by Duane Reade's corporate silence on the new product lines. All the press about this has been generated by the Kama Sutra company and not Duane Reade, whose spokespeople refused to comment in the press.
Read more - Duane Reade Adds Erotic Products To Its Shelves
More about: ???-->
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Friday, 5 March 2010
about smoking
side story
Smoking is good for you
Every week we read that something we believe is bad for us actually has beneficial health effects. This week it's coffee, before that it was pizza - and every other day it's red wine. But can these stories really be true? That depends how you interpret the facts.
Smoking
Talk to physicians and they'll tell you there are few things you can put in your mouth that are worse for you than a cigarette. But it's not all doom and gloom. Smokers are at least doing their bit to slow down the runaway obesity epidemic that is sweeping through the western world. "In many studies, you often find smokers are slimmer. We've certainly seen it in our studies," says Jodi Flaws at the University of Maryland school of medicine. "Some people think it's due to certain chemicals in cigarettes somehow making them burn more calories, but others believe it suppresses appetite. It may well be both."
Drastically upping your chances of cancer and heart disease might not be the best way to avoid obesity, but it's certainly easier than running round the block.
Scientists have also found evidence that smoking might, in some circumstances, help prevent the onset of various dementias. Many dementias go hand-in-hand with a loss of chemical receptors in the brain that just happen to be stimulated by nicotine. Smoking seems to bolster these receptors, and smokers have more of them. The theory is that smokers may then have more to lose before they start losing their minds. "It does seem that nicotine has a preventative effect, but the problem is that the other stuff in the cigarette tends to rot everything else," says Roger Bullock, a specialist in dementia and director of the Kingshill Research Centre in Swindon. So if your time is nearly up anyway, and you have somehow managed to steer a course past the Scylla and Charybdis of heart attacks and tumours, smoking might just help you retain your marbles.
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