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Let’s be real: there’s a stigma that comes with owning sex toys. I’m all for watching videos of “straight” guys fucking fleshlights, but I’ve always thought that masturbation toys were for guys who couldn’t get laid. I’ve been scared by the idea that someone could walk into my dorm room and ask me about the dick-sized tube by my bed, prompting me to awkwardly explain how I sometimes ejaculate into it.

But the TENGA Original Vacuum CUP (pictured left) and the Tenga Soft Tube Cup (right) has completely changed my opinion on masturbation toys. The exteriors of both toys are very graphic and sometimes they feature a print with a collaborative artist (recently Keith Haring) leaving behind the alien/machine aesthetic that most masturbation toys come with. Having an artistic print on the exterior makes the Tenga more approachable and less creepy. Not to mention the fact that the design allows me to let go of the paranoia of it being found: “it’s a……pencil case!”

Both the Vacuum cup and Soft Tube cup have an air hole at the top that allows you to control the strength of the vacuum suction. The interior of each cup differs, and both offer unique sensations that need to be experienced to understand. I used them with my boyfriend and we enjoyed both.

They’re both a lot of fun, the only problem is they’re designed to be disposable, which to be honest is a tad environmentally unfriendly. They say you get up to five go’s with each Tenga, but from my experience it was more like 10 before the insides got squishy. …

We’ve been a fan of Max Ryder since we first saw a photo of him on Tumblr about a year ago. We then found out at the time he was the latest exclusive model for Cockyboys—the Brooklyn based arty porn company. We finally got to chat with Max and take a couple of pics. It’s often weird meeting porn stars in person, there’s a level of visual intimacy that is absolutely one sided and can lead to all parties feeling a bit awkward. However Max is so shy and polite and sweet that you can’t help but like him—he has no ego and put everyone at ease. He’s also super cute and unfailingly forthcoming as you’ll see from our conversation.

Where do you live? Currently I live in a suitcase, but when I’m back in New York I live in Williamsburg.

Why in a suitcase? Work has me all over the place doing appearances, it’s gay porn award season, filming, etc etc.

Where have you been filming? I just spent all of January filming my newest project ‘Road Strip‘ in Palm Springs and LA!

Where did you grow up? A small town in Connecticut. Full of tractors, trees, and cows.

When and why did you decide to do porn? Actually it will be exactly a year on my birthday, March 16th. It was actually very unplanned. Right place, right time.

Tell us more? Well I don’t think anyone ever plans to do porn and if they say they did they are full of shit. …

Continuing our series of conversations with butts from around the world, we chatted with the butt of Brooklyn-based performance artist Boywolf. We meet Boywolf a few months ago at a party. He was very forthcoming…

Hi Boywolf, how is your butt feeling today? Feeling nice and warm.

How come? Cause I’m sitting by this wonderful radiator drinking prosecco.

You just finished your photoshoot, on top of that radiator? Yes.

So how old are you? 25.

Where are you from? South Florida, the suburbs.

So what was the first thing you ever put inside your butt? Hmm I guess my fingers, the first object I remember penetrating myself with was a shampoo bottle in the shower.

Cute, Did you consider yourself gay at the time? No haha.

Just curious about shampoo bottles? I guess, I was pretty confused about my sexuality as a teenager, I had read that you could stimulate your prostate and that felt good so I wanted to try.

Were you stimulated? Yeah it’s always felt really good to me, I didn’t really consider that i would put a dick up there until a few years later.

So do you consider yourself a bottom? Kinda, I consider myself versatile, but I tend to bottom a bit more than I top. People have called me a power bottom before

The world is your oyster when you’re vers. As a friend of mine likes to say, no one wants a 50 year old bottom. …

In the first of our conversations with butts from around the world we meet the butt of Tibault. Tibault is a cute young Frenchman that Abi and I met at a party in Chinatown. He may be new to New York, but that hasn’t stopped the slut from causing some trouble. For someone so young, we were impressed by how thoughtful and honest his answers were. He didn’t hold anything back. Just the way we like our French butts!

How old are you Tibault? 21

And where are you from? From Paris, France. But I was born in Brittany. In the west part of France.

How is your butt feeling today? Good, it feels clean and cool and nice. Perfect.

Was your butt feeling cool and clean and nice yesterday? No yesterday it had a cold. It was coughing. It went out too much, it got a butt cold.

So what was the first thing you ever put inside your butt? I think it was a tooth brush, when I was 13.

You didn’t put your fingers in first? No, I liked the idea of something outside of my body in there. It was in the shower, at my parent’s house.

Who’s brush was it? Haha, it was mine. It was a blue toothbrush…the color of my eyes.

So do you consider yourself a bottom? Yes, most of the time. The other way I get bored. I like being active in my passivity. …