This isn’t to say that I haven’t been enjoying myself. And by that, I mean having sex.

A few months ago, I started seeing commercials for KY Yours+Mine Couples Lubricant. I first must say that as a marketing major I found the advertisements to be pretty awesome. Between the commercials to the print ads, my attention was grabbed. I figured… a) I could write a blog about it, b) it might actually be pretty good from all of the reviews on Amazon, and 3) even if it wasn’t any good, it’d be a fun thing to try.

I should preface this by saying that I don’t like lube. I’m not naturally dry and neither is my boyfriend, we don’t use condoms, and our normal friction seems to work pretty well for both of us. The few times we have tried using lube it has been weirdly slick and we didn’t really enjoy it at all.

Anyway, to the review. I decided that I would try this stuff out so I went to Walgreens to find it. Sold out. A few days later I was near another pharmacy store. Sold out. A week or two later I had been to a few different stores at my convenience; sold out. Well then. Amazon to the rescue! It ended up getting to me on my birthday.  ;D

The concept for this lube is that there are two different lubes. One lube is “Hers” and one is “His”. From what the description, they’re supposed to feel good individually, but they create a completely different sensation when mixed.

I am torn on the packaging. On one hand, it is quite attractive; the two vials are sleek and resemble a toy in and of themselves! The pink-purple coloring of the “Hers” and the royal blue of the “His” makes it pretty clear which tube belongs on which person… but I decided that it would be totally cool if the “Hers” was a glow-in-the-dark pink, and the “His” was a glow-in-the-dark blue. On the other hand, I noticed that the bottles were not exactly easily manipulated. For one, they weren’t exactly easy to squeeze; although this was probably to limit the amount that actually came out (a little goes a LONG way), I can just imagine an awesome scenario… my boyfriend holding the little pink vial and shaking it like a moron trying to get some of the liquid out when it neared the end of the bottle until he ends up smacking his hand into a lamp and knocking the light out, now we can’t see (Hello? Glow-in-the-dark bottles?) and we end up tripping over something and someone is bleeding profusely… OH LOOK, there’s the lube! And also, the “sleek” design doesn’t exactly provide much traction when you’re attempting to close the bottle and put it away when you’ve got lube all over your hands.

Applying the lube is part of the process. They suggest on the bottle that each partner should apply the other’s lube. If my boyfriend and I weren’t laughing and looking forward to these magic potions the first time, it might have actually been a sexy situation but we are ridiculous and while it wasn’t EXACTLY the foreplay they might have been hinting towards, we had fun. After trying it again, it can work just fine as foreplay if you’re not both being goofy idiots.

First, I’ll give you my rundown on the “Hers”. First of all, it smells minty. Actually, it smells and kind of tastes like mouthwash. Why did I taste it? Uh, wouldn’t you? I was curious. Especially after the smell. Mouthwash.

It created the same sort of sensation I would imagine if I were to douse my genitals in mouthwash, too. Within a few seconds, it felt COLD… but not cold cold, tingly mouthwash cold. I already knew what was going to happen when I applied his.

He apparently couldn’t feel anything at first, and wasn’t exactly impressed in general. His is supposed to be a bit more of a warming sensation, but he didn’t get that.

I did.

It felt like he was MUCH WARMER than he normally is. It felt… really neat! The obvious contrast (for me at least) between the weird sensation I was feeling and the intense heat that I felt from him was exciting enough for me to make this product worth the purchase. He didn’t really feel much… but honestly I think my reactions made it worth it for him too.

As I mentioned earlier, unlike a lot of other lubes I’ve experienced, we both agree that it allowed for enough of our own natural friction. I was going to make a reference to slip-and-slides but it disturbed even me so I’ll let you take your own creative liberties with that. It was pretty pleasant as far as lubes go! VERY easy to clean up as well, as it’s a water based lube, which also means it can be used with latex condoms, if that’s your game. OH and I just looked at the bottles to try to figure out how long this stuff is going to last, and we’ve used it a couple of times and it’s not even below the cap level yet, and we used a decent amount! Lots of exciting bang for your buck, although it is one of the more expensive lubes on the market… you pay for novelty, people. And it REALLY is a lot.

We’re curious to see if other people try it and get similar results so we know if it really is mostly for the girl or of his penis is just broken.

So, to conclude my first product review… it’s pretty good! Sex is good! Have more sex!

(Oh yeah, and e-mail me about it.)