Lube & Lascivious Conduct: A quest for a lubricant that doesn’t suck

15 06 2009

Life’s too short for bad lube.

Believe you me-I’ve been on the business end of some bad lube. I’ll never forget that half-crystallized bottle of Grape Motion Lotion Uncle Ted hid in his glove compartment. That’s one sticky memory.  Anyhoo, it’s true that sex lubricants do come in a rainbow variety of Boone’s Farms flavors but seriously-fuck that shit. Edible lotions are for teenagers and people who want to lure them into their Windstars.

No, a good lube is totally clear, and like a good joke, completely tasteless. I’m in the market for the good stuff so I’ve asked the friendly folks at TabuToys.com to provide me with a list of their top 10 selling sex lubricants for me to rate and compare.  This will be an epic task requiring a cast-iron stomach and a sturdy wrist. But now it looks like I’m stalling and as Jane Gumb says, “It put’s the lotion on the skin or it get’s the hose.” Let’s do this thing:

#10.  Astroglide

Old Faithful.

Old Faithful.

Taste: Starts out sweet and finishes with a bitter aftertaste.
Viscosity: Thin and smooth until it morphs into a creepy mess of interconnected strands of lube-slime. Perfect if you want your pussy to do an imitation of an alien mouth in a Ridley Scott movie.
 Performance: Meh. It’s still better than KY. Maybe Astroglide should change it’s name to “Better than KY.”
Astroglide Trivia: Rosie O’Donnell claims that when she was a member of “The View” and close to Barbara Walters, Walters recommended Astroglide to her. Excited yet?
Who it’s for:  Barbara, Rosie and their 12 inch strap-on, “Big Sal.”
Ingredients: Purified water, Glycerine, Propylene Glycol, Polyquaternium 15, Methyparaben, Propylparaben