“Fifty Shades of Grey Linked to Vagina Ball Explosion” read the headline of a TMZ article today that wasn’t about a gala held for older women’s lady parts. (That would be a Vagina gala.)

After our eyes finished bleeding, we managed to get to the actual subject matter: sex toys like Ben Wah balls have been on the rise since E.L. James’ Twilight erotic fan fiction-cum-bestseller featured them in her story of Christian Grey and his light bondage sex slave, Anastasia Steele. But can we chalk up the rise of sex toys to just 50 Shades? Read More