Luna Beads ($47) offer a great way to get back in shape after baby. This innovative system combines pleasure and fitness, with the advantage of increased resistance over time, as you exercise your vaginal and pelvic floor muscles. The subtle sensations created by movement make for a more fun and efficient Kegel routine. Benefits of daily workouts with the Luna Beads include increased muscular control, enhanced sensitivity and intensified orgasms!

You remember the episode… a certain sex-less lady in the city is introduced to “the Rabbit” by one of her feisty friends. Suddenly she’s feeling so sexy, she can’t bear to leave the bedroom! You’ll be feeling Sexy in the City as well, with this incredible kit created for the modern woman. Stylish and substantial, the Sexy in the City Kit ($99) includes a Rabbit vibrator and one-handed reading material; Smut Vol. 1, a provocative collection of erotic short stories from the wickedly sharp minds at Nerve.com. So completely pleasurable, you might need an intervention too!

Voted Viewer’s Choice for Toy of the Year by Sue Johanson’s Sex Talk, the revolutionary We Vibe ($130) can be worn while making whoopee. Anatomically engineered to conform to a woman’s contours, the rechargeable We Vibe provides both clitoral and G-spot stimulation. The low vaginal profile allows for penetration, also giving your partner a blissful buzz. Wearing this hands-free wireless device feels a lot better than your Bluetooth!

Sometimes toys for Moms look just like toys for kids. You won’t be embarrassed if your wee one finds a waterproof I Rub My Duckie® Junior ($16) in the tub. Discreetly designed as a traditional rubber duck, this little quacker starts to shake when you give it a squeeze. The incredible vibrations this bath time buddy issues from its head and tail have earned it the attention of both Playboy and Cosmopolitan.

Add some sensuous suds to your soak with all-natural Soothe Me Bubble Bath ($8 – $22). Get them together in the Rub-A-Dub Dub Kit Junior ($26), for the ultimate splish-splash sensation.

This holiday, give nice mommies the opportunity to be naughty… let them take “time out” to play with their new toys from Good Vibrations!

A festive gift! Who can deny it? But the decision to do it is the easy part. Even if you have access to a store to shop in so you can see and handle the merchandise, picking an intimate item for someone else can be a challenging task. Here’s why. Unless you and your intended have had explicit talks about how fun it would be to have a certain make and model of dildo, how empty the house seems without a Hitachi Magic Wand, or how your New Year’s resolutions center on getting good at using a flogger, you might truly have no clue what Sweetie might like to receive. Sales associates at lingerie shops tell tales of guys who rush in at a quarter ’til closing on Christmas Eve and say, “Uh, she’s about your size — what color would she like?” Sadly, this sort of shopper buys sex toys, too, and they ask Good Vibrations staff, “What should I get? What will s/he like? What’s the most popular?”

Friends, we are all well-trained in human sexuality — it’s part of our job description — but we are not trance channelers. We truly don’t know what s/he would like, though we can fill in the gaps in your information about a toy and how it works. We just can’t predict whether or not your squeeze will enjoy it.

Here’s another all-too-common scenario: bringing home a sex toy and finding that your darling doesn’t want anything of the sort. S/he feels s/he’s being pressured or told s/he’s not adequate; you wanted to light a fire, but s/he responds as if s/he’s being criticized or manipulated.

Uh-oh. Trust me, you don’t want to have a gift that you hoped would make you closer, more intimate, and more experimental turn into a “How could you do this?” experience. First rule of sex toy gift-giving: give them to people who want them.

Knowing whether your partner is one of those people may take a little subtle clue-gathering. The very easiest way to do this is to take a trip to the toy store together. Pretend you need some Kama Sutra Oil of Love for a friend at the office, drag your love along to help you pick out the flavor, and casually cruise the sex toys together while you’re there. Pay close attention to things s/he finds interesting.

The next best scenario is to work the topic of toy use into a conversation. If you two never talk about sex, this will be a challenge — if that’s the case, maybe you both should read my book Exhibitionism for the Shy, which has suggestions for talking to your partner about fantasies and explicitly sexual topics. It’s in couples who never talk about sex that the abovementioned “You got me what!?” conversation is most likely to happen.

So what should you get? A gift certificate, that’s what. Let your lover know that you wanted to give a gift that keeps on giving, but thought s/he should have the final say in the matter. If you’re near Good Vibes or another store, schedule a time to go shopping together. Make it a date, with a nice lunch or dinner attached. Confer in whispers in the vibrator aisle. Check out the cock rings. Rent a couple of movies. (Some of the available movies, in fact, are educational videos about using sex toys, like Good Vibrations Part 2 and Carol Queen’s Great Vibrations.) Buy a book of erotica so you can read bedtime stories to each other.

If you’re not near a shop, shop together by catalog. The process of doing so, whether live or in the privacy of your own home, will give you a lot more information about each other’s sexual desires and curiosities. That will come in handy next year.

And if you really must hand over a wrapped gift, consider Laura Corn’s 101 Nights of Grrreat Sex or 101 Nights of Grrreat Romance — books that guide heterosexual couples in intimate, fun explorations of love and relationships — or Passion Play, an interactive game. Playing with these does what a good conversation will — open you up to each other, giving you more information about both of your desires and fantasies.

Don’t forget, giving gifts like these, you’ll definitely also receive. Happy holidays!