• Events

    Drawn to Sex Book Signing with Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan

    Thursday, November 15th — 7:00 – 9:00 pm — FREE — She Bop Division — RSVP on Facebook Join us at our SE Division location (3213 SE Division) for the release of Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan’s new book, Drawn to Sex! Come get your book signed and shop around! This event is free. Have you…

  • Musings

    The glory of sex-positive emojis

    Gone are the phallic fruits and suggestive winky faces — four designers in California have just upped the ante on sexy emojis. Their project, Flirtmoji, consists of tons of adorable yet provocative icons that can be pasted into any phone messaging app. In it, you’ll find everything from wiggling Jell-O and heart-shaped hot tubs…

  • Events

    Oh Joy, Sex Toy THE BOOK signing with Erika Moen!

    Sunday, December 7th — 7:00 – 9:00 pm — She Bop Division Join us and the amazing Erika Moen at our new location (3213 SE Division) for the release of Oh Joy Sex Toy THE BOOK! Come get your book signed by the artist herself and shop around! Erika’s favorite toys will be…

  • Musings

    Japanese vulva artist jailed, but undeterred

    Megumi Igarashi, pseudonym Rokudenashiko

    If you need a new hero, look no further than Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi, pseudonym Rokudenashiko (“good-for-nothing girl”). The 42-year-old sculptor and illustrator launched a crowdfunding campaign last year to raise money to create a “pussy boat,” a kayak formed in her vulva’s image. The campaign was wildly successful, and as a token of…

  • Musings

    How Oh Joy Sex Toy came to be (awesome)

    Oh Joy Sex Toy featuring the LELO Ina 2

    It’s been just over a year since Portland artist Erika Moen launched Oh Joy Sex Toy, and to say it has been a roaring success would be putting it lightly. This playful, hilarious, and informative sex-themed comic has become very popular, and the work that it has done as a sex education resource is probably immeasurable. Bite-sized sex…

  • Musings

    British Museum showcases shunga erotic art

    If you can make it out to London before January 5th, you’ll have the opportunity to see the most sexually explicit exhibition to grace the British Museum since its inception in 1753. Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art is also the most extensive exhibition ever created on the subject. Japanese shunga was a…

  • Musings

    “Cliteracy” art project includes clit rodeo

    If you ask us, there can never be enough clitoris-themed art in this world. That’s why we are loving artist Sophia Wallace‘s multi-media project, “Cliteracy.” The name, Wallace explains, comes from the idea of “total illiteracy and incompetence when it comes to the female body.” Although the anatomy of the clitoris (both internal and external)…

  • Musings

    Oh Joy Sex Toy webcomic wins our hearts

    Okay, we seriously can’t get enough of Oh Joy Sex Toy, a new webcomic from cartoonist Erika Moen! True, it’s all about sex toys, so we were bound to love it. But Moen is both excessively talented and a Portlander! Tackling sexuality in her comics is not new to Moen, as evidenced by her past works “Silver…

  • Musings

    Art depicts the true shape of the clitoris

    The clitoris looks a bit like a penguin. But most people don’t know that. Outside of the body, the clitoris is just a small nub with a hood. Internally, it turns out, it has two wishbone-like arms and a pair of extended bulbs. Until recently, those bulbs were thought to belong to the…