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How to Protect Your Skin From Damage

How to Protect Your Skin From Damage

Spring's officially here and while we're all about living in the moment, summer is just around the corner.  We're already starting to see a flood of vacation pictures on social media, and we know you'll want to do that bathing suit proud.
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Our Favorite Ways to Use Water-Based Lube

Our Favorite Ways to Use Water-Based Lube

If you’re a longtime reader of this blog, you know that we have certain favorite lubes for different activities.  For example, our silicone lube, Penchant Premium, works great in the water.  But what about water-based lube?
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How To Get Your Best Skin Yet

How To Get Your Best Skin Yet

Spring is in T-minus 3 days, which means we'll soon be shedding our winter layers and showing off some skin.  If it's been a little too long since your legs have seen the light of day, fear not.  
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Here’s How to Use Lube

Here’s How to Use Lube

Thinking about using lube but not sure where to start?  Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. 
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5 Natural Ways to Boost Your Libido

5 Natural Ways to Boost Your Libido

Sex is fun, feels great, and has a ton of health benefits, but what happens when your sex drive isn’t up to par?  Today we’ve rounded up 5 of our favorite libido-boosters.
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What to do When Your Phone is Interrupting Your Sex Life

What to do When Your Phone is Interrupting Your Sex Life

Here on the blog we’ve talked about how some phone apps can improve your sex life (Kama Sutra anyone?), but there’s a flip side to our favorite tool.  Studies have shown that having a phone in your bedroom can make it harder for you to sleep, and even more troubling is how those distractions can interrupt your sex life. 
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How to Get More Pleasure This Year

How to Get More Pleasure This Year

Is it too soon to ask how you’re doing with your New Year’s Resolution?  Anyone fallen off the bandwagon?
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3 Ways Thinking About Sex Can Improve Your Love Life

3 Ways Thinking About Sex Can Improve Your Love Life

At any given time there are a ton of things competing for your attention and brain space: the latest project at work, social obligations, what to eat for dinner...the list goes on.  While it’s easy to get caught up in the rush, when the thought of sex crosses your mind, we highly suggest spend a few minutes focusing on this subject.
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An Experiment Everyone Should Try Once

An Experiment Everyone Should Try Once

Psst, we’ve got a secret.  We’ve found a quick, easy way to enhance your sex life and to magnify the effects of using lube.
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How to Buy Sex Toys as Gifts

How to Buy Sex Toys as Gifts

There’s nothing sexier than anticipation of a great roll in the hay, and opening a package to find a new adult toy can prime the pump for an arousing new experience. If you want to buy a toy for your partner, but you’re shopping alone, the key is to pick something you’ll both enjoy.
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True and Awesome: Kegels Aren’t Just for Women

True and Awesome: Kegels Aren’t Just for Women

We’re not the first people to sing the praises of Kegels for women, but did you know that men can do them too?  Not only can Kegels help with men’s prostate health, doing them can lead to better orgasms and stronger erections.
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Hair down there?  Why you should go Bare.

Hair down there? Why you should go Bare.

When it comes to personal grooming, there’s a huge range of options - from just a trim to going totally bare.  Wherever you fall on the spectrum, you can’t deny the pleasure of soft, touchable skin and if you put the effort into making yourself look and feel great, you want the results to last.
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Valentine's Day Lust List

Valentine's Day Lust List

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and here at Penchant it’s one of our favorite holidays.  Not only do you get to share the day with your loved one, it’s a great excuse to up your game in the bedroom. 
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How to Introduce Something New in the Bedroom

How to Introduce Something New in the Bedroom

Variety is part of the fun of life, and adding sex toys or new moves in the bedroom can help spice things up for both you and your partner.  Talking about sex can sometimes be a sensitive subject, and when discussing new things, you’ll want to make sure you approach things from a positive place. 
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How to Give a Hand Job He'll Never Forget

How to Give a Hand Job He'll Never Forget

It’s easy to see why the hand job is often overlooked - unlike oral sex, it’s something he can do himself.  That being said, it’s well worth mastering this trick in the bedroom. 
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How to Experience Next-Level Pleasure

How to Experience Next-Level Pleasure

Personal lubricants are an amazing gateway to sexual pleasure, which is why we wholeheartedly stand behind their use.  While our silicone Penchant Premium formula holds a special place in our hearts (and on our bedside tables), we wanted to give you more ways to experience the love.
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Tips for Buying your First Vibrator

Tips for Buying your First Vibrator

If you’re dipping your toes into the world of sex toys, let us be the first to say good for you.  Sex toys not only make you feel great, the can improve body confidence and help you learn what your body likes best.
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Use Sex Toys to Improve Confidence and Banish Sexual Shame

Use Sex Toys to Improve Confidence and Banish Sexual Shame

Have you ever felt guilty about sexual pleasure?  Felt like you wanted more sex than normal?  Less?
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Want to have multiple orgasms?  Read this.

Want to have multiple orgasms? Read this.

Ladies, listen up.  There’s nothing quite like having an orgasm and then having a second (or a third...or more) coming hard behind it. 
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The Best Way to Start Your Day

The Best Way to Start Your Day

This year the team at Penchant is focused on adding more pleasure into our lives, and we love this idea from the writers at Kinkly.com - add orgasms to your morning routine to reap the benefits early in your day! 
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Two Approaches to Sex in the Winter

Two Approaches to Sex in the Winter

In sex, as in life, there is a whole spectrum of experiences out there.  While we typically steer clear of saying things fall into only two categories, we tend to find that how people approach sex in the winter can easily skew to either end of that spectrum. 
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A New Year's Resolution that Makes Everyone Happy

A New Year's Resolution that Makes Everyone Happy

New Year’s resolutions are not typically my game - I like being flexible to pursue what’s most exciting to me in any given season.  That being said, there’s one simple New Year’s resolution I’m putting on my list - experience more pleasure in 2016. 
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Welcome to the New Penchant For Pleasure Site!

Welcome to the New Penchant For Pleasure Site!

Good afternoon, friends!  You may have noticed a few changes around these parts, and we’re hoping you like the facelift.
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The Changing Shape of the Sex Toy Industry

The Changing Shape of the Sex Toy Industry

The saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” but here at Penchant we like another saying as well.  “If it’s broken and there’s no fix out there, create your own.”  
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Tweeting Your Lube

Tweeting Your Lube

Ronda Rousey recently made the news by saying, “If you need lube, then you’re being lazy…” to which the internet strongly voiced its disagreement.  In a turn of events that cheered us tremendously, women took to Twitter under the hashtag #tweetyourlube and shared their favorites.  
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Watching Porn May Not Be All Bad for You

Watching Porn May Not Be All Bad for You

Many people have strong views on whether or not watching porn is healthy, but scientists at UCLA and Concordia University recently set out to clear the air as to whether it’s physically harmful for men to watch visual sexual stimuli.  Translation: would there be erectile dysfunction associated with watching porn?
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Aphrodisiac Foods to Supercharge Your Sex Drive

Aphrodisiac Foods to Supercharge Your Sex Drive

A few years back I received the book, The New InterCourses: An Aphrodisiac Cookbook.  The book is beautiful to look at and gives a number of recipes you can create in your kitchen using foods with aphrodisiac properties.  
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Can a Phone App Improve Your Sex Life?

Can a Phone App Improve Your Sex Life?

We all know that there are things you can do to improve your sex life (including using lube, of course), but can using a phone app improve your sex life?
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How Many Types of Orgasm Can You Name?

For all the women out there who seek pleasure in bed, the good news is there may be more ways to orgasm than you’ve thought.  Refinery29 has the rundown on 12 different types of orgasm from your nipple to your clitorus, courtesy of sexologist Dr. Carlen Costa
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Lubes for Every Occasion

Lubes for Every Occasion

Personal lubricant is one of life’s pleasure enhancers, and it can be used anytime and in any way you can imagine. 
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Why Masturbation Gets Your Doctor’s Thumbs Up

Why Masturbation Gets Your Doctor’s Thumbs Up

We all know that masturbation is pleasurable, but is it good for you?  Actually, yes.  Masturbation has been found to have a range of health benefits that are so excellent your doctor will give this activity a thumbs up.
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Lube it Up for Easier Orgasms

Lube it Up for Easier Orgasms

We love orgasms not only for the health benefits, but also because they feel amazing.  Due to a number of factors including stress and changing hormones, though, it sometimes takes a little extra effort to hit the big O. 
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Orgasm: TED Talks

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Orgasm: TED Talks

Got 15 minutes?  If you do, you should check out this hilarious and insightful TED talk by Mary Roach.  
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A Sexy Reason For the Man in Your Life to Lace Up His Gym Shoes

A Sexy Reason For the Man in Your Life to Lace Up His Gym Shoes

We all know that regular exercise is important for your health – after all, it does everything from improve your mood to extend your life expectancy.  An even sexier reason to exercise?
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Have You Heard of a Sex Lab?

Have You Heard of a Sex Lab?

We love the idea of playing and experimenting with new things in the bedroom.  Sex educator Kate McCombs proposes the idea of a Sex Lab where you can try new things in the bedroom and see how they work for you.  We at Penchant are all on board.
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How to Make Your Next Massage the Best One Yet

How to Make Your Next Massage the Best One Yet

Giving a sensual massage is a wonderful way to increase intimacy with your partner and help him or her reach new levels of relaxation.  While this type of massage doesn’t necessarily have to lead to sex, don’t be surprised if it’s the happy result.
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