Whoosh! Breaking a new space barrier.

There have been some great moments in space exploration.

The first manned flight into space in 1961.

The moon landing in 1969.

The Hubble space telescope launch in 1993.

And now, in 2011, the first sex toy launch into space.

Some may doubt whether this latest milestone ranks with those others, but no matter. It’s generated lots of publicity for an online sex toy shop.

On Oct. 8, SexToy.com launched the vibrating bullet, a vibrator, into space, reaching a peak speed of 1,800 feet per minute and hitting a maximum altitude of 120,000 feet.

Then came the ride down. It was a rough one.

For its descent the vibrator was attached to a solar-powered helium balloon. The balloon was to slow the pace of descent, so the device would hit the ground at between 5 mph and 10 mph.

But the balloon popped about two-thirds of the way back to earth. The vibrator hit the ground at 60 mph.

But no loss. The device was still vibrating after the crash, and in fact had vibrated the entire nine hours of the trip, a testament to the quality and durability of the product under the roughest of conditions.

Unlike previous space launches, the SexToy.com project was not motivated by an urge to break new scientific ground. It was not intended as a big step, or even a small step, for mankind.

The aim was more modest: to generate publicity for SexToy.com’s wares, and it did the job admirably, lighting up the internet in lively discussion.

As with so many such bold ventures, there were and are many doubters, and in fact an online debate has raged over whether the launch actually happened.  Some have accused SexToy of engaging in a hoax.

The online shop dismisses all such suggestions, pointing to the video as evidence.

It’s already planning a second foray into the heavens.

“The success of this launch has our team planning the next space endeavor,” says Sextoy CEO Dave Levin.

“We may be launching a sex doll into space to serve as an extraterrestrial representative ‘baring’ the slogan, ‘We Come in Peace.’”

In a gesture to those who found the first launch offensive, Sextoy is auctioning off the space-traveling vibrator on eBay, with proceeds going to a breast cancer awareness charity in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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Woman Sues Vibrator Company After Sex Toy Nearly Kills Her

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Good Vibrations Gone Bad

Vibrators: they’re all fun and games until someone acidentally stabs themselves and nearly bleeds out. A woman is suing a sex toy company after a dildo she was using caused a sharp vaginal pain, followed by massive bleeding.

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April Bonjour (no joke) of California was rushed to the hospital after the sex toy she and her boyfriend were using apparently caused a gash INSIDE her, resulting in a large amount of blood loss.

“I started to get faint from the loss of blood,” Bonjour wrote in a personal injury complaint filed Aug. 30 in California Superior Court.

“My boyfriend called 911. By the time they got there, I was in and out of consciousness.”

Bonjour says she and her son (whom I assume was not present for the Killer Dildo incident) “thought I was dying … Once we got to the hospital, I had lost so much blood I was given several pints.”

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She is suing Pipedream Products Inc. for damages of $25,000, and presumably for the awkward conversation she had with her son about how she got vigorous enough with a sex toy so as to injure herself.

So what could kinky April possibly be doing with her vibrator that would cause bleeding? Nothing out of the ordinary. According to her statement, the toy “was being used in the manner intended by the defendant.”

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