Man Eater sex toy: offer of a product review sample

Today, I received the following email from Mae Schultz, marketing campaign manager of Good Vibrations.

Hi Mark,
Would you be interested in reviewing Good Vibrations newest male sex toy the "Man Eater from Outer Space"? Feel free to write whatever you'd like about it, I'd be happy to send you a sample.
Have a great day,
Mae

Man Eaters From Outer Space Waterproof Vibrator: $29.00

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Anonymous

i had to read the damn product description 3 times and then ponder it for 10 minutes to understand what in the hell this thing did.
Ugly Canuck

Does this… thing… make any squeaking or other sounds when it is properly used?
Anonymous

It would almost be worth it to buy one and put it on my desk at work just so I could make fun of anyone who recognized what it was.
Jackasimov

Well OK, if no one else is going to, I’ll do it.
Anonymous

what is this? i don’t even…
Matt Cornell

We’re running a poll on the Maneater here. We have a different dubious sex toy each week!

http://www.thepleasurechest.com/blog/2010/12/31/the-maneater-turn-on-or-buzz-off/
- jere7my
  
  If you’re not aware of it, you should check out Scary Sextoy Friday. There are a lot of scary sex toys out there.
mathdemon

So Mark, did you ask for a sample? I mean, it’d be nicer with a proper review. :)
ToMajorTom

You BoingBoingers get all the perks. Sigh…
Nelson.C

So, Mark, are you going to review it?
Anonymous

i had a ICP moment trying to figure how it works before i went to the site.
IWood

It’s the cock-biting pear of Salamanca.

Almost.
Anonymous

Just don’t share it.
Antinous / Moderator

Now that Joel’s gone, they don’t know who picked up the male sex toy beat.
- sally599
  
  Oh, so that’s why Gizmodo is more and more like Boing Boing every day now I get it.
- Dave Faris
  
  I’m pretty sure Cory has the fetish mask part taken care of, doesn’t he?
Lobster

Reminds me of the LOL WUT pear: http://knowyourmeme.com/i/151/original/n725075089_288918_2774.jpg
twobeeshawn

I’m confused, where is the USB port?
- Stefan Jones
  
  Pffft! USB is so 2009.
  
  This thing’s eye light up when it detects a WiFi hot spot.
weatherman

Well they do seem to know their market well; I can’t imagine a site that this would get better attention from than BoingBoing.
MrJM

FYI:

this little spaceguy is not a sleeve, but slides along the shaft.

I hope that clears up any confusion.
- vancouvergrrl
  
  “As clear as an unmuddied lake; as clear as the azure sky of bluest summer”. (appy polly loggies for any misquotation)
- cjp
  
  re: clearing up confusion – Thank you. I was way off the mark.
  
  A serious, professional review of this gadget would be welcome. We’re all enlightened here. And we promise not to giggle.
  - Crispinus211
    
    cjp sez, “I was way off the mark.”
    
    Apparently, so is the gadget.
    
    Zing!
Cowicide

Like many others, I’m here after clicking the Read the rest link and expected to see Mark’s own personal review with pictures and possibly explicit video after the jump.

Wat sort of journalisms is this?
- capsteve
  
  i agree with cowicide, you can’t tease us with a Read the rest link and not perform a full and complete review!
- tizroc
  
  I don’t know… I mean these people do perform some journalistic things but it is a directory of wonderful things.
newtomato

Just in time for Valentine’s Day!
ill lich

Oh yeah, that really turns me on.
pepik

I was just in Good Vibrations on Saturday, and I definitely didn’t see this displayed.
jrtom

Credit where due, Lobster: that’s originally (no kidding!) “The Biting Pear of Salamanca” by Ursula Vernon. http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/114119 (Who is an awesome artist and very funny person, BTW.)
- Anonymous
  
  … aaaand I just sent a link to this page to Ms. Vernon.
  
  I suspect it will be met with hysterical laughter.
cstatman

just like the TSA, I don’t want that anywhere near my junk
Brainspore

Is this product meant to blend in innocently among your office desktop figurines or is it intended for gentlemen who happen to have a Mike Wazowski fetish?
ili

“form-fitting and curved to fit many penises”. Just how many, I wonder? All at once, or serially? Clearly, this demands testing. Did Good Vibrations provide you with an MSDS?
- orwellian
  
  Hee!
sgj

WELL!? You said yes, right?
Patrick Dodds

Too tired to post the review Mark?
- Cowicide
  
  Har!
- sbarnes2
  
  Ice cream paint job just got a whole new, dirtier meaning. And cjp, I promise nothing! I am giggling now. The Mike Wazoski fetish joke nearly made me inhale my dinner.
styrofoam

With a matter of a simple paint job, I’d imagine the review could be shortened to “Just look at it.”
mreddy1

i will take up this task. send it to me, i have some time to kill.
Anonymous

Maybe we can get the blog guy who hates Elizabeth Edwards and Cthulhu dildos to re-tweet this.
Anonymous

I was going to make a “Christ, what an asshole” comment but then learned it’s not an anal toy. :/
- Cowicide
  
  Anything can be an anal toy. Anything.
  - Ipo
    
    There are size limitations I would think.
    In fact, I won’t even think of the lifesize replica of a spermwhale. No, I won’t.
    
    That thing looks just not even remotely like a sextoy to me.
    Interesting conversation piece.
voiceinthedistance

Had I fully grasped the apparent infallibility of Rule 34, I quite likely would have wound up at the door of Good Vibrations, portfolio in hand before wasting my life with a traditional career. Is there a Kevlar safety net for sex toy designers? Not every design is, perhaps, destined to be a runaway hit, but there is at least a “place” for everything.
Anonymous

The mind boggles! Looks like a one-eyed nasty version of Kermit!
Anonymous

it’s kind of cute in a kitchy way. I’d never guess that it was a sextoy.
ahaley

Gil Hicks: [beat] “Well, did he cum, or what?”
- EscapingTheTrunk
  
  Oh, if I could heart you, I would.
Teller

The hand is quicker than the Eye.
social_maladroit

So I click the “read more…” link and — nothing! No review, no pics, no video of it in use. Man, I want my bOINGbOING subscription fee refunded.

Frauenfelder, you’re going to have to do a lot better than that if you ever want to fulfill your lifelong dream of blogging for Fleshbot.
i_prefer_yeti

It eats pirate hat wearing strawberries?

Are we sure this isn’t a VeggieTales ™ toy?
bobruub

posting just to get the comments off 69
osmo

Wait, ok first I thought it was some wierdly shaped butt plug or something but its actually something you have on while you masturbate? Why… I mean can’t you just you know, sort of just masturbate. The usual way. With your hand. Or is this a big thing for you guys with no foreskins? Like using lube when you do it…

Is anyone gonna test this thing? I know allot of people here have asked but I really wanna know.
Stefan Jones

The deluxe model has a tissue dispenser on back.
anathica

Can you put me in touch with this guy? I’d love to do product reviews for them, only I’m female.
- Cowicide
  
  Can you put me in touch with this guy? I’d love to do product reviews for them, only I’m female.
  
  A thousand nerds all over the world just stopped typing and computing all at once…
  - MarketingGrrl
    
    Yea, that comment was cruel. I mean geeze the older ones have heart conditions after all. :p
- Stefan Jones
  
  I bet they sell adaptors.
Anonymous

Do Not Want.
Caretta

Considering the “Feel free to write whatever you’d like about it” line, presumably the very existence of your post constitutes acceptance and fulfillment of the terms.

You might as well get a free sample, you’ve already provided the advertisement they were looking for.
Mark Frauenfelder

I did not request an evaluation unit. But I do like the look of the little creature.
- max
  
  You should get one just because it would look totally unassuming on your desk and you could laugh about how people had no idea what it’s intended use is, and if they do it’s probably an interesting way to meet new people.
  - Cowicide
    
    Sex toys. An interesting way to meet new people.
MarketingGrrl

If you do a review, will the review be a demonstration video or simply documented with photographs?

:)
TheCrawNotTheCraw

Um…why does it have teeth?
- Ugly Canuck
  
  Why shouldn’t it?
GVmae

Hi Everyone, this is Mae from Good Vibrations. Any bloggers who are interested in reviewing products from us are welcome to join our affiliate program that offers unlimited products for review. It’s open to all genders and just might add a giggle(or moan)to your content.
http://www.goodvibes.com/content.jhtml?id=Good-Vibrations-Affiliate-Program
Anonymous

â™ªâ™« Woah, here she comes. Watch out boy she’ll chew you up! Woah here she comes. She’s a man eater!â™«â™ª
Anonymous

I see a one-eyed Slimer: http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/AUTOIMAGES/NC31971lg.jpg
Derek C. F. Pegritz

How do you…how does it *work*? Is there an opening I’m missing, or another part? *Confused*
- Ugly Canuck
  
  Your naivety is shocking.
- Ugly Canuck
  
  Wait…I can’t figure it out either…
- jere7my
  
  How do you…how does it *work*?
  
  Imagine the beastie is eating corn on the cob.
  - social_maladroit
    
    Imagine the beastie is eating corn on the cob.
    
    With the desired result being cream of corn, so to speak.
  - wrybread
    
    Oof. Is there any way I can unread your comment?
CpnCodpiece

So are you going to ‘plug’ the device or not haha.