To my pleasant surprise, what should arrive in my little French mailbox earlier this week but a package from the one-and-only Babeland? Okay, so it wasn’t a surprise. And okay, it was review copies for a holiday cybersex gift guide I’m writing. And okay okay, I did end up having to fork out an unexpected and totally ridiculous amount for taxes before the UPS guy would even hand over the package. But the fact remains, I am now the proud reviewer/owner of an elastomer Rabbit Habit, a super-shiny striptease kit, and a book and a DVD by fellow Village Voice writer Tristan Taormino. Happy Hanukah to me, and my previously semi “respectable” new bookshelves.

Right now I’d have to say I’m most impressed with the striptease kit–for cybersex-related purposes, at least. It comes complete with red sequin pasties. Just what I’ve always wanted? Apparently!