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Kickstart Tobi Hill-Meyer’s next project
Tobi Hill-Meyer, winner of the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2010 Feminist Porn Awards and director of Doing It Ourselves: The Trans Women Porn Project, now has an even bigger project in her sights: an epic two-volume follow-up movie called Doing it Again: In Depth. Doing it Again: In Depth will be partially funded by a…
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10% Tuesdays in August for Bitch Media
10% Tuesdays are back! Throughout the month of August, 10% of our sales on Tuesdays will go to the non-profit organization Bitch Media. Bitch’s mission is to provide and encourage an engaged, thoughtful feminist response to mainstream media and popular culture. We are big fans of Bitch, and we believe they are an invaluable voice…
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New product round-up for July
We are pleased to introduce the Pocket Toyfriends! These new additions to the Toyfriends line are cute, small, and inexpensive. We love that they come in such a nice array of colors — to match anyone’s preference and style. Speaking of colors, it’s always exciting to see Fun Factory’s new releases because…
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She Bop voted #1 sex toy shop in the Mercury
We were so ecstatic to learn that we were voted the #1 sex toy shop in Portland in the Portland Mercury‘s PDX Approved guide! The Mercury even published a really awesome write-up about us. Check it out: Among our other attributes, Portland people are overwhelmingly sex positive. So we expect a bit more when shopping for toys…
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Strap On Play
Thursday, August 30th — 7:30 p.m. — $20 Are you curious about strap on play? Wondering how on earth to pick out a harness or dildo? Or have you been “strapping it on” for a while now and are looking for some sexy new tips and tricks? We’ll be covering it all, from…
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Finding empowerment at Madison Moone’s burlesque class
When Madison Moone approached us in 2010 about teaching burlesque classes at the shop, we loved her immediately. Madison is a very busy lady; when she’s not strutting her stuff on stage, she runs a private music lesson studio and volunteer teaches for the nonprofit organization Street Yoga. She is also the co-producer of Orchestre…
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Kink, pop culture, and feminism collide
The popularity of the BDSM-laden Fifty Shades of Grey series has created a lot of buzz lately about the “mainstreaming” of BDSM and kink. Perhaps as as response to all this new and interesting dialogue, Bitch created the “Thinking Kink” series on their blog. Launched in June, the “Thinking Kink” series highlights the ways in which…
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Bound By Lust: Reading and Writing Erotica
Thursday, August 9th — 7:30 p.m. — FREE — RSVP on Facebook Come and hear award-winning writer Shanna Germain read from Bound by Lust, a collection of BDSM-focused erotic romance. After, she’ll talk about the saucy, sexy (and sometimes just plain silly) life of a full-time erotica writer and will answer questions about…
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The Joys of Toys!
Wednesday, August 1st — 7:30 p.m. — $15 Join She Bop’s very own AJ (aka Amory Jane) for an evening of education and fun. Ever wandered around a sex toy shop and wondered “what the heck is that?” Never fear, AJ will answer those burning (in a good way) questions and then some!…
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Full-Bodied Fellatio
Thursday, July 26th — 7:30 p.m. — $20 What do you do when your partner lacks blowjob skills? Where do you go for training when you wish to improve your own? Here! M. Makael Newby is a relationship coach and dance instructor with a particular skill for breaking physical action into components and…