Image of "Flight" From BSG PR

Understandably, the majority of press releases from the Austin-based "number one selling male sex toy company" Fleshlight end up in our spam filter, but the recent creation of a "Flight" model, paired with the fact that the locals swept the "AVN Awards for Best Sex Toy Company" - subcategory "Large" - and "Best Sex Toy for Men" (for their "Blade") means that this company is at the very least newsworthy, if still understandably not a part of dinner conversations in most kitchens. However, given that the company sold 4 million models of the Fleshlight, there's more than an above-average chance of said project taking up residence in a lot of bedrooms.

Back in 1995, a modern day sex Thomas Edison named Steve Shubin came up with the idea for the Fleshlight, so named because it looks like a flashlight, that you have sex with, and in 1998 he patented the product as a "device useful for collection of sperm from human males, preferably in a discreet, camouflaged manner." Previous devices for collecting sperm, like a big bucket you keep under the sink that says 'SPERM' on the side in capital letters, were found wanting.

These days, you can buy all methods and types of Fleshlights in various incarnations, including "Pink Stealth, Mouth, Lady and Butt." Or, as they put it, "Just pick an orifice and you're on your way." A friend of this site explains seeing one on display at local sex retailer Dreamers, where she got a closer look at its "Real Feel Super Skin." "It felt like a piece of an ear...I remember so many people had touched it, that it was dirty, like you could see a greyish hue to it," she said. A greyish hue - one of the many signs of a popular sex product.

Fleshlight is working with the adult-skewed marketing firm BSG PR, who sent out their last notice about new product "Flight." Filled with not-so-discrete, eye-rolling puns about air travel, the release gives little actual information about this new product, except that it's "taking off in mid-to-late February." It looks, to us, like a new type of masculine body spray or a remote control.

Also? They support our troops.

Update: Austinist contributor Michelle Nail adds more to our original staff-wide call for Fleshlight-related information:

"The Fleshlight. I can inform you. What? Ladies can't know what that is? Sexist.

It's a popular line of sex toys used for penetration (re: you can stick your junk in it whenever you want). You can actually build your own with your own color and orifice preferences. So, it's like a lady but quieter and, in some cases, cheaper.

I think I might actually have one somewhere. It's a butt. Unused if you wanted to know (and you did). I can give it to someone if they're super enthused. It was a gift. Clearly."

Fleshlight: [official]

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