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ephermeyal's review against another edition
4.75
Most of the content were not that relevant to me as of the moment, but I really appreciated this nonetheless. Thank you for being a safe space. The casual diversity was incredibly refreshing too.
itacuz's review against another edition
5.0
I am going to write one review for all four Oh Joy Sex Toy collections. If I tried to write four separate reviews, I’d be saying largely the same thing four different times and it wouldn’t do any of them justice. If you feel at all inclined to read these collections but don’t have access to them, yes you do they’re all online! www.ohjoysextoy.com has every comic from all four volumes of these books; this comic was the first one I found on tumblr way back in 2013. Personally I’m a big fan of reading them in the bound version, but if you want accessibility and searchability you should just head over to their website.
I don’t know enough about the complexities of sex positive culture to explain the scope of the educational reach this comic has had. I can tell you when I first read it in college, I started to see myself, or rather the community I wanted to see myself a part of, in these comics. A community that put personal pleasure above stigma, but never gave up consent for the sake of anyone else’s enjoyment. When I began to read OJST I thought less about what other people would perceive of my pleasure, and more about what I could do to achieve it. Now my personal journey is a lot more fraught and complicated than “read a comic, now you’re gay”, but the comic allowed me to see being bisexual as natural. When I became more okay with my bisexuality, it helped me separate that identity from my personal sexual perversions and come to accept those as well. I say perversions as a self-described pervert because there’s no shame allowed here, unless you’re into it and have laid out safe boundaries with your shame scene partners.
As a white man, I see myself in most things; my bisexuality would isolate me a little but even that has become more mainstream. The best part about OJST is that everyone else has the opportunity to be seen as I am. It doesn’t matter what parts you do or don’t have, what your hair, skin, or body looks like. Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan draw bodies trying out all of these sex toys, positions, and sexual dilemmas with the most diverse cast of characters I have ever seen. The “Masturbateers” were created because as Moen says, “While we love our sex toys, we’re both modest exhibitionists, so we like to depict “the business” through these free-loving characters! Their pronouns as individuals are “They, Them and Their” and they refer to their genitalia by their medical, anatomical names. The Masturbateers’ sexuality is: Horny.” Either Moen and Nolan appear in every comic, talking the reader through the topic and giving the sense of recurring characters to the series while allowing the diverse maturbateers to show you how it’s done. Sometimes it can be very clinical, but sometimes it’s straight up sexy! I won’t lie, I’ve been turned on plenty of times reading these by bodies I’ve never seen in porn.
Oh Joy Sex Toy isn’t just an ad space for toys looking to get good reviews by sending free products. No matter their relationship with the company in question, and a few do sponsor the website itself, Moen and Nolan always give a completely honest review of their experience. I’ve seen them compliment toys they practically threw away, critique toys that they swear by every time they’re mentioned. They always give you a fair assessment of the toy, and will let you know if they think the problem is the toy not gelling with their bodies or sexual inclinations. I never felt their bias get in the way of me understanding the pros and cons of an item.
At its heart, Oh Joy Sex Toy is educational. I have added more sex ed books to my bookshelf through OJST than any other resource. When I wanted to understand more about contraceptives or what it was like for a pornstar in this world, OJST is where I found the most information told in the clearest way. I know it’s not saying much, but I learned more reading this comic than the american education system ever attempted to teach me. There are plenty of non-sexual, sex-related topics covered and if I had to teach my theoretical child about something I have no experience with, say a UTI, Oh Joy Sex Toy is where I would go first. This website (and book[s]) may not be something you are even remotely interested in hearing about, but if someone had passed along the url when I was in middle school, it would have saved me a lot of lost time and made me much more comfortable with the body I have today.
I don’t know enough about the complexities of sex positive culture to explain the scope of the educational reach this comic has had. I can tell you when I first read it in college, I started to see myself, or rather the community I wanted to see myself a part of, in these comics. A community that put personal pleasure above stigma, but never gave up consent for the sake of anyone else’s enjoyment. When I began to read OJST I thought less about what other people would perceive of my pleasure, and more about what I could do to achieve it. Now my personal journey is a lot more fraught and complicated than “read a comic, now you’re gay”, but the comic allowed me to see being bisexual as natural. When I became more okay with my bisexuality, it helped me separate that identity from my personal sexual perversions and come to accept those as well. I say perversions as a self-described pervert because there’s no shame allowed here, unless you’re into it and have laid out safe boundaries with your shame scene partners.
As a white man, I see myself in most things; my bisexuality would isolate me a little but even that has become more mainstream. The best part about OJST is that everyone else has the opportunity to be seen as I am. It doesn’t matter what parts you do or don’t have, what your hair, skin, or body looks like. Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan draw bodies trying out all of these sex toys, positions, and sexual dilemmas with the most diverse cast of characters I have ever seen. The “Masturbateers” were created because as Moen says, “While we love our sex toys, we’re both modest exhibitionists, so we like to depict “the business” through these free-loving characters! Their pronouns as individuals are “They, Them and Their” and they refer to their genitalia by their medical, anatomical names. The Masturbateers’ sexuality is: Horny.” Either Moen and Nolan appear in every comic, talking the reader through the topic and giving the sense of recurring characters to the series while allowing the diverse maturbateers to show you how it’s done. Sometimes it can be very clinical, but sometimes it’s straight up sexy! I won’t lie, I’ve been turned on plenty of times reading these by bodies I’ve never seen in porn.
Oh Joy Sex Toy isn’t just an ad space for toys looking to get good reviews by sending free products. No matter their relationship with the company in question, and a few do sponsor the website itself, Moen and Nolan always give a completely honest review of their experience. I’ve seen them compliment toys they practically threw away, critique toys that they swear by every time they’re mentioned. They always give you a fair assessment of the toy, and will let you know if they think the problem is the toy not gelling with their bodies or sexual inclinations. I never felt their bias get in the way of me understanding the pros and cons of an item.
At its heart, Oh Joy Sex Toy is educational. I have added more sex ed books to my bookshelf through OJST than any other resource. When I wanted to understand more about contraceptives or what it was like for a pornstar in this world, OJST is where I found the most information told in the clearest way. I know it’s not saying much, but I learned more reading this comic than the american education system ever attempted to teach me. There are plenty of non-sexual, sex-related topics covered and if I had to teach my theoretical child about something I have no experience with, say a UTI, Oh Joy Sex Toy is where I would go first. This website (and book[s]) may not be something you are even remotely interested in hearing about, but if someone had passed along the url when I was in middle school, it would have saved me a lot of lost time and made me much more comfortable with the body I have today.
itacuz's review against another edition
5.0
I am going to write one review for all four Oh Joy Sex Toy collections. If I tried to write four separate reviews, I’d be saying largely the same thing four different times and it wouldn’t do any of them justice. If you feel at all inclined to read these collections but don’t have access to them, yes you do they’re all online! www.ohjoysextoy.com has every comic from all four volumes of these books; this comic was the first one I found on tumblr way back in 2013. Personally I’m a big fan of reading them in the bound version, but if you want accessibility and searchability you should just head over to their website.
I don’t know enough about the complexities of sex positive culture to explain the scope of the educational reach this comic has had. I can tell you when I first read it in college, I started to see myself, or rather the community I wanted to see myself a part of, in these comics. A community that put personal pleasure above stigma, but never gave up consent for the sake of anyone else’s enjoyment. When I began to read OJST I thought less about what other people would perceive of my pleasure, and more about what I could do to achieve it. Now my personal journey is a lot more fraught and complicated than “read a comic, now you’re gay”, but the comic allowed me to see being bisexual as natural. When I became more okay with my bisexuality, it helped me separate that identity from my personal sexual perversions and come to accept those as well. I say perversions as a self-described pervert because there’s no shame allowed here, unless you’re into it and have laid out safe boundaries with your shame scene partners.
As a white man, I see myself in most things; my bisexuality would isolate me a little but even that has become more mainstream. The best part about OJST is that everyone else has the opportunity to be seen as I am. It doesn’t matter what parts you do or don’t have, what your hair, skin, or body looks like. Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan draw bodies trying out all of these sex toys, positions, and sexual dilemmas with the most diverse cast of characters I have ever seen. The “Masturbateers” were created because as Moen says, “While we love our sex toys, we’re both modest exhibitionists, so we like to depict “the business” through these free-loving characters! Their pronouns as individuals are “They, Them and Their” and they refer to their genitalia by their medical, anatomical names. The Masturbateers’ sexuality is: Horny.” Either Moen and Nolan appear in every comic, talking the reader through the topic and giving the sense of recurring characters to the series while allowing the diverse maturbateers to show you how it’s done. Sometimes it can be very clinical, but sometimes it’s straight up sexy! I won’t lie, I’ve been turned on plenty of times reading these by bodies I’ve never seen in porn.
Oh Joy Sex Toy isn’t just an ad space for toys looking to get good reviews by sending free products. No matter their relationship with the company in question, and a few do sponsor the website itself, Moen and Nolan always give a completely honest review of their experience. I’ve seen them compliment toys they practically threw away, critique toys that they swear by every time they’re mentioned. They always give you a fair assessment of the toy, and will let you know if they think the problem is the toy not gelling with their bodies or sexual inclinations. I never felt their bias get in the way of me understanding the pros and cons of an item.
At its heart, Oh Joy Sex Toy is educational. I have added more sex ed books to my bookshelf through OJST than any other resource. When I wanted to understand more about contraceptives or what it was like for a pornstar in this world, OJST is where I found the most information told in the clearest way. I know it’s not saying much, but I learned more reading this comic than the american education system ever attempted to teach me. There are plenty of non-sexual, sex-related topics covered and if I had to teach my theoretical child about something I have no experience with, say a UTI, Oh Joy Sex Toy is where I would go first. This website (and book[s]) may not be something you are even remotely interested in hearing about, but if someone had passed along the url when I was in middle school, it would have saved me a lot of lost time and made me much more comfortable with the body I have today.
I don’t know enough about the complexities of sex positive culture to explain the scope of the educational reach this comic has had. I can tell you when I first read it in college, I started to see myself, or rather the community I wanted to see myself a part of, in these comics. A community that put personal pleasure above stigma, but never gave up consent for the sake of anyone else’s enjoyment. When I began to read OJST I thought less about what other people would perceive of my pleasure, and more about what I could do to achieve it. Now my personal journey is a lot more fraught and complicated than “read a comic, now you’re gay”, but the comic allowed me to see being bisexual as natural. When I became more okay with my bisexuality, it helped me separate that identity from my personal sexual perversions and come to accept those as well. I say perversions as a self-described pervert because there’s no shame allowed here, unless you’re into it and have laid out safe boundaries with your shame scene partners.
As a white man, I see myself in most things; my bisexuality would isolate me a little but even that has become more mainstream. The best part about OJST is that everyone else has the opportunity to be seen as I am. It doesn’t matter what parts you do or don’t have, what your hair, skin, or body looks like. Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan draw bodies trying out all of these sex toys, positions, and sexual dilemmas with the most diverse cast of characters I have ever seen. The “Masturbateers” were created because as Moen says, “While we love our sex toys, we’re both modest exhibitionists, so we like to depict “the business” through these free-loving characters! Their pronouns as individuals are “They, Them and Their” and they refer to their genitalia by their medical, anatomical names. The Masturbateers’ sexuality is: Horny.” Either Moen and Nolan appear in every comic, talking the reader through the topic and giving the sense of recurring characters to the series while allowing the diverse maturbateers to show you how it’s done. Sometimes it can be very clinical, but sometimes it’s straight up sexy! I won’t lie, I’ve been turned on plenty of times reading these by bodies I’ve never seen in porn.
Oh Joy Sex Toy isn’t just an ad space for toys looking to get good reviews by sending free products. No matter their relationship with the company in question, and a few do sponsor the website itself, Moen and Nolan always give a completely honest review of their experience. I’ve seen them compliment toys they practically threw away, critique toys that they swear by every time they’re mentioned. They always give you a fair assessment of the toy, and will let you know if they think the problem is the toy not gelling with their bodies or sexual inclinations. I never felt their bias get in the way of me understanding the pros and cons of an item.
At its heart, Oh Joy Sex Toy is educational. I have added more sex ed books to my bookshelf through OJST than any other resource. When I wanted to understand more about contraceptives or what it was like for a pornstar in this world, OJST is where I found the most information told in the clearest way. I know it’s not saying much, but I learned more reading this comic than the american education system ever attempted to teach me. There are plenty of non-sexual, sex-related topics covered and if I had to teach my theoretical child about something I have no experience with, say a UTI, Oh Joy Sex Toy is where I would go first. This website (and book[s]) may not be something you are even remotely interested in hearing about, but if someone had passed along the url when I was in middle school, it would have saved me a lot of lost time and made me much more comfortable with the body I have today.
thingslucyreads's review against another edition
5.0
I downloaded a copy of this book when it was made available as a Read Now title on NetGalley. This is an honest review.
Ok so this was always going to be a 5-star read for me. Oh Joy Sex Toy was first recommended to me a couple of years ago by my best friend, and I used to read it religiously. But it's been a while now since I read Oh Joy Sex Toy online, and it had fallen into the back of my mind, unremembered, until I saw it listed on Netgalley.
This is an amazing comic that is so much more than just reviews of sex toys. It also reviews books about sex and provides infinitely better sex education than any school ever has and talks about different kinds of relationships as well as sexual activity in general.
Almost every comic is accompanied by a "masturbateer" - a fictional person whose only function is to illustrate the use of a particular toy or to be taught about a condition or infection, with Erika and sometimes Matt hanging around to narrate the comic and educate the masturbateer, and the reader, about whatever subject is on the cards. I think the purpose of this is to make it more relatable than it would be if each comic was just Erika and Matt acting it out themselves.
This is a very effective technique. The masturbateers come in all shapes, sizes and races and two of the ones in this volume are disabled. They are also, as it says in the introduction, collectively genderless, so that they represent the reader no matter what the reader's gender is. All people are welcomed and included in Oh Joy Sex Toy, no matter what. Erika also mentioned intersex people in a discussion about genitals, which was awesome. This is a comic for literally everyone.
Some of the stand out comics in this issue provided information on how to make good homemade porn, foreskins, HPV, vaginismus, swinger's parties, how porn is made and a review of the book [b:Girl Sex 101|24819402|Girl Sex 101|Allison Moon|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1422990475s/24819402.jpg|44460201], which is the only comic that I remember from when I used to read OJST online, and directly influenced my purchase of that book. I still haven't read it yet, but re-reading the review reminded me that I own it and I'm hopefully going to get to that soon. There are also a bunch of guest comics in the back which were really cool and diverse as well. Some were about informative, like OJST, some were about two people getting down, and some were about things that had nothing to do with sex. I loved all of them, but my favourites were Dragon Age by Molly Ostertag, which was a review of the Dragon Age games (and oh boy am I glad I own Origins because I definitely have to play that soon), Honey by Ghostgreen, Ace by Kiku H and What's The Buzz by Benjamin.
This is a really fun, enjoyable comic that everyone, regardless of gender or sexuality or sexual experience or sexual desire (or lack thereof) should read. It's honest and real and welcoming and so incredibly important, and I'm honestly just so thankful to Erika and Matt for creating this comic and putting it online so that people can have it in their lives.
Ok so this was always going to be a 5-star read for me. Oh Joy Sex Toy was first recommended to me a couple of years ago by my best friend, and I used to read it religiously. But it's been a while now since I read Oh Joy Sex Toy online, and it had fallen into the back of my mind, unremembered, until I saw it listed on Netgalley.
This is an amazing comic that is so much more than just reviews of sex toys. It also reviews books about sex and provides infinitely better sex education than any school ever has and talks about different kinds of relationships as well as sexual activity in general.
Almost every comic is accompanied by a "masturbateer" - a fictional person whose only function is to illustrate the use of a particular toy or to be taught about a condition or infection, with Erika and sometimes Matt hanging around to narrate the comic and educate the masturbateer, and the reader, about whatever subject is on the cards. I think the purpose of this is to make it more relatable than it would be if each comic was just Erika and Matt acting it out themselves.
This is a very effective technique. The masturbateers come in all shapes, sizes and races and two of the ones in this volume are disabled. They are also, as it says in the introduction, collectively genderless, so that they represent the reader no matter what the reader's gender is. All people are welcomed and included in Oh Joy Sex Toy, no matter what. Erika also mentioned intersex people in a discussion about genitals, which was awesome. This is a comic for literally everyone.
Some of the stand out comics in this issue provided information on how to make good homemade porn, foreskins, HPV, vaginismus, swinger's parties, how porn is made and a review of the book [b:Girl Sex 101|24819402|Girl Sex 101|Allison Moon|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1422990475s/24819402.jpg|44460201], which is the only comic that I remember from when I used to read OJST online, and directly influenced my purchase of that book. I still haven't read it yet, but re-reading the review reminded me that I own it and I'm hopefully going to get to that soon. There are also a bunch of guest comics in the back which were really cool and diverse as well. Some were about informative, like OJST, some were about two people getting down, and some were about things that had nothing to do with sex. I loved all of them, but my favourites were Dragon Age by Molly Ostertag, which was a review of the Dragon Age games (and oh boy am I glad I own Origins because I definitely have to play that soon), Honey by Ghostgreen, Ace by Kiku H and What's The Buzz by Benjamin.
This is a really fun, enjoyable comic that everyone, regardless of gender or sexuality or sexual experience or sexual desire (or lack thereof) should read. It's honest and real and welcoming and so incredibly important, and I'm honestly just so thankful to Erika and Matt for creating this comic and putting it online so that people can have it in their lives.
tinaathena's review against another edition
5.0
Very sex positive, to the point of disseminating the concept of sex positivity. Really enjoyed this, I really learned a lot about health and anatomy. Appreciated the normalizing of so many different sexualities, gender expressions, body shapes, etc. Very sweet and playful, with an anthology of interesting and unique comics at the end.
wesleymccraw's review against another edition
2.0
Fun, sexy art that sadly isn't very conducive to coloring.
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