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4 Sex Toy Shows: ANME, XBIZ, SHE and AVN

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For those of us in the adult toy industry, January kicks off the year as the crazy month, at least for those of us behind the counter. I’m dizzy with the FOUR shows within two weeks starting on Monday, that let me learn, share, buy, grow and my favorite, schmooze. ANME, XBIZ, SHE and AEE/AVN. Hold on to your seats and join me for this whirlwind schedule.
ANME, the Adult Novelty Manufacturers Expo, is the beginning of the series of shows on January 12 and 13. While January is considered the slower show of the two shows, the other being held in July), everyone always poses the question: “What’s new?” Ah yes, what’s new. I am sure I’ll be seeing plenty of new styles of pink rabbits, more BDSM related products because of the impending release of the hotly anticipated movie “Fifty Shades of Grey.” The printed version caused a frenzy in our industry two years ago and many of us are hoping that when people actually SEE the dominant and submissive action between the two characters, that they’re gonna run right out and buy lots and lots of equipment from us. Sportsheets is anticipating a newly minted audience rushing out to discreetly buy kits and have prepped themselves with their cleverly titled Sexperiments line, which is so new, we don’t even have them yet on the GrandOpening.com website! But check it soon! I’m sure there will be plenty more at the show and I can’t wait to see everything.
Right after ANME is the XBIZ360 show from January 13-16. It’s a really good, trade only networking and learning event that’s really good. It’s not so much booth oriented but allows plenty of time for schmoozing (my favorite!) and the learning is excellent. Even I learn a lot when I’m there (especially when I poke my head into the adult film and web masters parts of it).  It offers all the cousins in the smut family: adult film industry, the adult toy industry, the adult web industry, or in any aspect of the adult pleasure industry so it’s always fun to get together during this perverted kind of family gathering. My favorite!  XBIZ Industry Executive Awards with YOURS TRULY being nominated as Community Executive of the Year! Can’t wait for that and wish me luck! I’ve been in the biz for 22 years now and in LOTS of communities in this wacky industry I love so much. Stay tuned! I’ll let you know when I win!
And the XBIZ Awards on January 15 are gonna be so hot, it’s gonna scorch the Nokia Theatre in downtown LA! It’s gonna be great. My favorite new gizmo, Bubble Love, is nominated in a few categories so I’ll keep my fingers crossed we win!
The XBIZ 360 event runs into the SHE show which is the Sexual Health Expo, put on by XBIZ at the Sofitel Hotel in Beverly Hills on the weekend of January 17-18. It IS a consumer show and I’m sure there will be many hungry and savvy sex curious attendees wanting to attend every workshop offered. And yes, there are awards to be given out over the weekend for the top female sexual health products on the market today. Another award show, another dress, no problem!
Then it’s home for two days to catch my breath and do laundry and other shit around the house (do I buy groceries?!?) before I drive out to Vegas for the granddaddy of ’em all, the AVN show, aka the big ass porno convention that has been in existence for over 30 years. I’ve been going to it since about 1997 and it’s hard to believe it’s been that long. It’s pretty whack and it’s at the Hard Rock from January 21-24. It’s a crazy time keeping up with all the action there which covers the gamut but in a very different way from all the other shows, mixed with industry folks and a shitload of fans, which I love and drive me crazy at the same time.
And yes, there’s not one but TWO award shows during the event: the O Awards for the adult novelty products and the AVN Awards for all of the other parts of the industry (including – ADULT NOVELTIES!!). That’s two more dresses I need to get!
On Sunday, January 25, I am happy to announce that I’ll be recovering, from what, I don’t know. I’ll be driving back and will leave early enough to avid the stampede down the 15 back home to LA. Two weeks of shows that are back to back and front to front will keep me at a crazy pace and force me to drink far too many 5 Hour Energy Shots (my favorite ones being orange and grape).  I’ll have a lot to write about so as they say in Hollywood (or at least they USED to), “Stay tuned!”
Okay, I’m going to start a tradition which is one of my favorites. As you may know, I have been blogging on XBIZ for years (here’s the link) and I always write a Joke Of The Blog at the end of it, so why not here?
So here’s the first one… there will be a lot more…
Speaking of Vegas, one night a couple had angry sex. You know, the kind you get through because you want to spite your partner, and you get through it but when you’re finished, you know you’re done. After the woman had sex with her husband, she angrily pulled on her clothes, started packing her suitcase and barked “That’s it. I’m done. I’m moving to Las Vegas where I can get $300 for what I just did with you.” Her husband looked up at her and said “Ya think you can survive on $900 a year?”

FOUR Sex Toy Shows this month: ANME, XBIZ, SHE and AEE!

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For those of us in the adult toy industry, January kicks off the year as the crazy month, at least for those of us behind the counter. I’m dizzy with the FOUR shows within two weeks starting on Monday, that let me learn, share, buy, grow and my favorite, schmooze. ANME, XBIZ, SHE and AEE/AVN. Hold on to your seats and join me for this whirlwind schedule.
ANME, the Adult Novelty Manufacturers Expo, is the beginning of the series of shows on January 12 and 13. While January is considered the slower show of the two shows, the other being held in July), everyone always poses the question: “What’s new?”
Ah yes, what’s new. I am sure I’ll be seeing plenty of new styles of pink rabbits, more BDSM related products because of the impending release of the hotly anticipated movie “Fifty Shades of Grey.” The printed version caused a frenzy in our industry two years ago and many of us are hoping that when people actually SEE the dominant and submissive action between the two characters, that they’re gonna run right out and buy lots and lots of equipment from us. Sportsheets is anticipating a newly minted audience rushing out to discreetly buy kits and have prepped themselves with their cleverly titled Sexperiments line, which is so new, we don’t even have them yet on the GrandOpening.com website! But check it soon!
I’m sure there will be plenty more at the show and I can’t wait to see everything.
Right after ANME is the XBIZ360 show from January 13-16. It’s a really good, trade only networking and learning event that’s really good. It’s not so much booth oriented but allows plenty of time for schmoozing (my favorite!) and the learning is excellent. Even I learn a lot when I’m there (especially when I poke my head into the adult film and web masters parts of it).  It offers all the cousins in the smut family: adult film industry, the adult toy industry, the adult web industry, or in any aspect of the adult pleasure industry so it’s always fun to get together during this perverted kind of family gathering. My favorite!  XBIZ Industry Executive Awards with YOURS TRULY being nominated as Community Executive of the Year! Can’t wait for that and wish me luck! I’ve been in the biz for 22 years now and in LOTS of communities in this wacky industry I love so much. Stay tuned! I’ll let you know when I win!
And the XBIZ Awards on January 15 are gonna be so hot, it’s gonna scorch the Nokia Theatre in downtown LA! It’s gonna be great. My favorite new gizmo, Bubble Love, is nominated in a few categories so I’ll keep my fingers crossed we win!
The XBIZ 360 event runs into the SHE show which is the Sexual Health Expo, put on by XBIZ at the Sofitel Hotel in Beverly Hills on the weekend of January 17-18. It IS a consumer show and I’m sure there will be many hungry and savvy sex curious attendees wanting to attend every workshop offered. And yes, there are awards to be given out over the weekend for the top female sexual health products on the market today. Another award show, another dress, no problem!
Then it’s home for two days to catch my breath and do laundry and other shit around the house (do I buy groceries?!?) before I drive out to Vegas for the granddaddy of ’em all, the AVN show, aka the big ass porno convention that has been in existence for over 30 years. I’ve been going to it since about 1997 and it’s hard to believe it’s been that long. It’s pretty whack and it’s at the Hard Rock from January 21-24. It’s a crazy time keeping up with all the action there which covers the gamut but in a very different way from all the other shows, mixed with industry folks and a shitload of fans, which I love and drive me crazy at the same time. And yes, there’s not one but TWO award shows during the event: the O Awards for the adult novelty products and the AVN Awards for all of the other parts of the industry (including – ADULT NOVELTIES!!). That’s two more dresses I need to get!
On Sunday, January 25, I am happy to announce that I’ll be recovering, from what, I don’t know. I’ll be driving back and will leave early enough to avid the stampede down the 15 back home to LA. Two weeks of shows that are back to back and front to front will keep me at a crazy pace and force me to drink far too many 5 Hour Energy Shots (my favorite ones being orange and grape).  I’ll have a lot to write about so as they say in Hollywood (or at least they USED to), “Stay tuned!”
Okay, I’m going to start a tradition which is one of my favorites. As you may know, I have been blogging on XBIZ for years (here’s the link) and I always write a Joke Of The Blog at the end of it, so why not here? So here’s the first one… there will be a lot more…
Speaking of Vegas, one night a couple had angry sex. You know, the kind you get through because you want to spite your partner, and you get through it but when you’re finished, you know you’re done.
After the woman had sex with her husband, she angrily pulled on her clothes, started packing her suitcase and barked “That’s it. I’m done. I’m moving to Las Vegas where I can get $300 for what I just did with you.”
Her husband looked up at her and said “Ya think you can survive on $900 a year?”

kim airs on cal exotics vivid radio

Kim Airs to Appear on Club Cal Exotics Radio

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WOWWEE! I’m gonna be on the Club Cal Exotics radio today! Here are the details upfront:

  • Date: Friday, Dec. 6,
  • Time: 7pm eastern, 4pm west coast and everything in between
  • Where: VIVID SIRIUS XM RADIO CHANNEL 102

kim airs on cal exotics vivid radio It was fun to record it yesterday! If you miss it, you can download it, too, from the SiriusXM website. Share the fun with your friends and repost away! Woohoo! This is how my exciting day began…
So December 5 was a typical, fun day in LA adult land for yours truly, Kim Airs. Yesterday, my battery conked out on one of my motorcycles (the green and white Honda Shadow ACE for those of you keeping score) so I called AAA and arranged for a jump start (which worked out fine, thankyouverymuch). The nice lady answering the AAA call for a jump (ooohhh, that sounds hot!) asked if I needed a free, one day rental car because one rental car day a year is included in my top notch AAA coverage. At first I chuckled and said no but then I realized, “Hey! My year coverage renews Jan. 1 so what the hell? May as well get a new rental for free for a day!” So I agreed…
I rented a Chevy Captiva because I wanted to feel the drive (I am considering a small SUV), but that’s another blog (it was just ok).
I went to pick up a friend at the airport but his flight was delayed, so I zipped back home to get ready to do my exciting endeavor for the day and that was…. wait for it… to be on the Club CalExotics Vivid SiriusXM radio show! Woohoo! I drove over to the studio located between the Valley and LA (how convenient!) and arrived for the one-hour program, hosted by Sheena Metal.
We talked all about the nifty Cal products (I love their stuff and they’re ALL available on Grand Opening!, by the way! ) and all sorts of other things including how to use penis pumps and clitoral pumps. It was great fun!
Afterwards, I had the wonderful luck to run into not one, but two friends out in the Vivid SiriusXM lobby… my pal, the wonderful and beautiful porn star of the late 80’s – Tori Welles, who has her own show on the station! It was a great surprise! She rides motorcycles, too, so we’ll be riding together soon. The other person was Phil Varone, who has his own line of sex toys with Cal and it’s always fun to run into him.
So tune into Sirius XM Vivid Radio Channel 102 on Friday, Dec. 6 at 7pm EST, 4pm PST (and everything in between). And remember, you can download it from the SiriusXM website after the show. Woohoo!
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Cal Ex Intensity by Jopen

Intensity by Jopen Review

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Cal Ex Intensity by Jopen
Jopen raises the bar yet again with the Intensity by Jopen. This is not merely a toy for snuggling with… it is more of a sexual health product that may help women with various medical issues. Before I get ahead of myself, let me begin by saying that this 4 AAA battery powered gizmo is hefty in size but not in weight (the insertable shaft is a typical 5” x 1 ½” but the entire contraption is 12” long). It offers the user many different options…
Here goes: the silicone shaft has an accordion type sleeve which gently expands when the bulbous base is squeezed (there is a button on the bottom to release the air which remains self-contained). The button controls in the front are easy to use when the shaft is inserted for use. The main feature of the Intensity by Jopen is, to put it mildly, intense. It has two electro-stimulation pads on the top and the bottom of the shaft that make a connection via your vagina when inserted. The pads are placed to stimulate above the g spot, and, more accurately, the PC muscle (pubo-coccygeal muscle which is the muscle that you exercise when doing Kegels, it’s also commonly known as the “pelvic sling”).
The variable speed electrostimulation pulses in order to stimulate the muscles which may be contributing to urinary incontinence caused by a number of underlying issues such as childbirth, aging, lack of use, etc. And there’s also a variable speed, three eared rabbit type external stimulator in case your clitoris feels lonely and needs attention during your internal romp. The same vibration button also controls a vibrator on the shaft in the g spot area.

What Did I Think of the Intensity by Jopen?

It’s intense, to be sure, but the Intensity by Jopen is a high quality product. Hopefully there will be medical professionals aware of the Intensity who can recommend it to their patients that need this product to increase vaginal health and sensitivity.
But then again, there’s a big contingent of kinksters out there who would love to get their paws on the Intensity – health issues be damned!  Line me up!

CalExotics Triple Play Wild G

Triple Play Wild G by Cal Ex Review

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CalExotics Triple Play Wild G
The Cal Ex Triple Play Wild G is a hefty triple action vibe that will swirl and stimulate the most demanding sex toy connoisseur by providing seven rows of fixed, swirling metal beads and a multi-function, three tongued clit stimulator.
The 1 ½” wide shaft with the gently rounded head will slip in a deep 5 ¼” while the seven speed pulsation and escalation of the chunky and cleverly designed clit stimulator will works its way around more than just her clit. With extra added lube, the three tongue-like protrusions will feel like a nice round of oral sex thrown in for good, orgasmic pleasure. The “EZ-load battery pack” is exactly that, needing just a twist of the waterproof sealed base to unlock the 4 AA battery pack that slides right out. This is a welcomed hefty vibe for those multi-pleasure gals out there. Available in pink and purple.

What Did I Think of the Cal Ex Triple Play Wild G?

Lovely little toy, that’s not so little, the Triple Play Wild G from California Exotic Novelties proves that not every rabbit-style vibe needs to have the same features. The clit stimulator on this vibrator is out of this world, offering up triple the sensation. It really stands out when compared to other products of this style. Plus, the beads are located at the right spot to provide external and internal vaginal stimulation for added oomph.
All in all, this sex toy is one to remember.

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