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IPFS News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law

Finally, Sex Toy Reviews Done as Hilarious Comics

• http://www.wired.com-Laura Hudson

When Moen launched Oh Joy, Sex Toy [NSFW] in April, 2013, she wanted to do something creative on the subject of sex, with a little help from her personal gadget stockpile. The site has since developed a dedicated readership that visits more than a million times a month, and Moen's new book of Oh Joy, Sex Toy comics is getting more orders than she can keep up with. Moen co-writes the comics with her husband, Matt Nolan, with each reviewing toys for the relevant genitals. And since there is, in theory, anyway, a limit to how many sex toys anyone needs, her weekly updates alternate between reviews, how-tos, sex education, and even illustrated interviews with sex workers. "There's a lot more to it than just looking for a sex toy. We try to create stories with the comics, to make them self-contained nuggets of entertainment," Moen says when I visit her Periscope Studio in Portland, Oregon. "I hear from asexuals who say, 'I have no interest in [sex] personally, but I enjoy the comics so I'm reading it anyway.'"