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Vixely Featured on HuffPo in “Tech’s Gender Gap” by Rebekah Iliff

Vixely is thrilled to be featured on Huffington Post Tech’s recent article “Tech’s Gender Gap: Real or Silicon (Valley) Made” by Rebekah Iliff, Director of Product at AirPR. The article discusses gender stereotypes facing women in tech and highlights the many roles women actually play in the growing tech landscape. Read on for excerpts from [...]

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MANHUNTING CHRONICLES: Why You’re Not Married

I recently went on an incredibly relaxing hot springs camping trip with a close girlfriend to help me deal with the hard times I had been having. Among the hard times (but not by any means at the top of the list) was that I was feeling tenderhearted about this long, drawn out, not relationship that was clearly [...]

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This 9GAG image went viral on Facebook with over 3,500 likes, shares and comments. It’s an EXCELLENT question. Skin and bones really is not hot in comparison, which is why you need the comparison as a reminder. In its January issue, PLUS Model Magazine published an editorial featuring images of a plus sized model next to a typical [...]

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Rick Santorum got booed throughout his appearance before New Hampshire college students on Thursday following his surprising second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses that has propelled him to the upper tier of Republican presidential candidates. Bloomberg Businessweek reports the disapproving NH college crew were reacting to Santorum’s negative comments relating to same-sex marriage, particularly when he [...]

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LINK LOVE: The Gender Toy Debate Roundup & New Years Mashups

You’ve gotta love this super fun, video mashup of the 25 biggest songs of 2011 from Dj Earworm. The perfect way to say goodbye to 2011 and hello to 2012 (when you’re not listening to Million Dollar Deli’s Tunes to Ring in the New Year) … The topic of gender segregating toys hit the NY [...]

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Refinery 29 Goes NSFW (Porn, Sex Toys & More!)

When it comes to taking the taboo out of talking about sex, we could not be happier to see popular women’s lifestyle blog Refinery 29‘s sexy, sophisticated take on “A Tasteful Girl’s Guide To Sexy Time (NSFW).” What’s on a tasteful girl’s list? We are excited to see three of our partners- Ti Chang from [...]

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Let’s Talk About Sex…

“Every day in America, 10,000 teenagers catch an STD, 2,400 young girls become pregnant, and 55 young people are infected with HIV.” Those sobering stats are from a documentary Let’s Talk About Sex which aired on TLC in April. The director of this film, James Houston, is a fashion photographer who came to the U.S. from Australia and [...]

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Holiday Link Love

We just wanted to wish you all a joyous holiday season! Happy Hannukah, Merry Christmas and a wonderful, sexy new year!  

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The Sex in 7 Days Regimen—FAIL

The Frisky recently published an article “The Sex In 7 Days Regimen.” Our hope, of course, was for something encouraging and motivating, like seven steps to help build your confidence so you can experience more pleasure in a sexual encounter! Unfortunately, it is neither. What it is a seven-day regimen filled with dieting advice, more dieting [...]

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Vixely watched the pilot episode of HBO’s upcoming show “Girls” and OH WOW is it fantastic. It’s basically a show about hipster lady friends a.k.a. us circa four years ago: adorable, recent college grads decked in Anthropologie and Theory with fun British “cousins” working at minimal paying jobs so they can focus on their “writing,” [...]

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