Welcome to the May 1, 2008 edition of the sex toy review podcast. My name is Jamie and today we have a few things to cover. In this podcast I will not be doing a review but will be talking about the Phthalate issue and mentioning a couple other new features on our site.

First off I would like to start with talking Phthalates and some of the things we have done to inform our customers of this. Recently we received some feedback from one of our podcast listeners. He suggested to us that we should be mentioning in our podcasts if the products we are reviewing are Phthalate free and we should be doing more on our retail site to mention this as well. The retail site of course is www.adultsensations.ca - Phthalate Free Sex Toys

So what we have done as we are sure there are many others out there thinking the same thing is we will now be mentioning in our podcast if the product is Phthalate free and we have also added some icons to every product that is Phthalate free on our retail site. When you go to a categories/product pages for instance you will see icons under the name of the product. We also have other icons that have other meanings as well such as, P with a circle and a diagonal line through it means that the product is Phthalate free a V with a circle around it means that it Vibrates, the water drop means that it is waterproof, an R with a circle around it means that it is rechargeable, an L with a circle and a line through it means the product is latex free and finally an S with a circle and a line through it means that the product is sugar free. The sugar free is used mainly on lubes and other edible products. A legend is posted at the bottom of every product page just above the add to cart button.

We feel this gives people the ability to make a choice and also helps people with diabetes and/or latex allergies a clearer view of what they can or cannot use when buying sex toys. Phthalates just in case you have never heard of this before are esters of Phthalic acid and are mainly used as plasticizers which is added to plastics to make them more flexible. Phthalates have been commonly used over the years in many adult toys as well as household items and even pacifiers for babies! Canada has just banned the use of Phthalates in baby products. The adult industry despite what the media is saying IS changing over their products at a rapid pace to remove this from their toys. Canada.com recently released an article that was critical of the adult toy industry and I think it is somewhat misleading and not 100% accurate. I have no problem with them bringing up this topic as it should be but they seemed a bit harsh on the adult toy industry and said that it has not been doing enough to take care of this issue. Until recently some companies have still had Phthalates in their baby products and it has taken a law in Canada to ban the use of it for them to stop. The adult toy industry is doing it without legislation. Saying this I know there is a long way to go but it is headed i the right direction. Topco for instance is probably the biggest if not very close to the biggest adult toy manufacturer in the world, has made a huge change in the Phthalate free product offerings. Almost every single Cyberskin toy is now free of it and by the looks of the new catalogue 90% of the most popular toys are now being made Phthalate free.

I am not sure how dangerous Phthalates are I have read few articles and the argument goes both ways. But we would rather error on the side of caution and from now on we will be only be adding Phthalate free products to our site. Over the next few months we will be changing over all the older products to ones that are Phthalate free. This is a timely process as we have a large stock of products and it will take a bit of time to move over to the new ones. At this moment we are currently changing over all the new Topco products and updating the icons to indicate this on our site. There are may more products on the site that are Phthalte free but do not have the icon. We have just started the change over and want to be thorough and make sure no mistakes are made doing so.

I would like to thank the listener who emailed in about this as it made us take action. We had been thinking about this for awhile but where waiting for things to get put into place so that we could act. Anyway thanks again for your feedback and keep it coming!! You can send emails to me directly or leave your comments on the sextoyreviewpodcast.com. My direct email is jamie@sextoyreviewpodcast.com

Another small feature we have added and again this will take some time before you will notice it across the entire site but we have added extra images to our product listings. Now we again have wanted to do this for some time but have been really busy and our tech guy has just not been able to get to it. But we have it in place now and have already added some extra images to some of the products. We will be updating the products as we update the icons for the Phthalate free and so on. Like I said this is not a major upgrade but something that will help make your purchases a little easier. You will see the extra images under the main large image on the product page. You can check it out by doing a search on our site for Hot Stuff Warming Massage Oils and then click on that product. You will now see the extra images under the main image. You do not have to click on them to see the new image it will load once you put your mouse curser over it. You can click on them to get a larger view and again once the popup window is open with the large image you will see the smaller ones below it and you do not have to click them to change images, just run your mouse curser over them. Depending on your internet connection this might take a second.

Anyway I know this is sex toy review site but I wanted to mention the Phthalate issue and thought I would throw in some of the changes made to our retail site to make the podcast a little longer and to inform you of the new features. I will be posting a sex toy review on the Carmen Luvana Doggy Style Pussy and Ass shortly. The product in now Phthalate free!

Anyway have a good day and hope to hear from you soon!

 

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