The American Spin-off consists of a panel of four performers who create characters, scenes and songs on the spot, in the style of short-form improvisation games. Topics for the games are based on either audience suggestions or predetermined prompts from the host, who would set up a game and situation that the performers would improvise. The current show features A-List comedians and actors including Wayne Brady, Ryan Stiles, and Colin Mochrie.

The show which airs on the CW Network consistently receives good ratings and is now in  its 10th season receiving around 1.5 Million viewers every week.

During this particular taping, Molly Romeo of Holiday Products happened to be in the audience as the cast members performed a popular skit called “What’s In The Bag” in which they grab two purses from two random women in the audience and use items from inside their purses to improv a skit. Like a true Sportsheets partner, Molly happened to have the Sportsheets Key Chain Whip in her purse which was then gently rubbed on Wayne Brady’s head.

“I was so thrilled when Molly told us that they had used one of our products in a Whose Line skit,” claimed Julie Stewart, President of Sportsheets International. “The exposure for us was great, but what makes me even happier is the fact that someone like Molly, and industry insider who works for Holiday Products which carries thousands upon thousands of products chose to have a Sportsheets Brand product in her purse over the other 20,000+ discreet sized items she could have had.”

Molly Romeo also commented, “As a long time fan of the show I was so excited to be able to attend a live taping but had no idea that they were going to actually end up picking me to be in one of their skits,” Romero, Senior Account Manager for Holiday Products stated. “It was a hilarious skit and so great to see them use one of my favorite Sportsheets Products on the show.”

The Sportsheets Rubber Keychain is a top selling product for the fetish manufacturer and comes in a number of different colors including Black, Purple, Red, Pink, and Green. They also come in assorted combinations of 12, making it an easy buy for retailers.

The full Whose Line Is It Anyway episode can be viewed for free online by clicking here.

For more information on Sportsheets, please visit their Official Website or follow them on Twitter and Facebook.

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  Sportsheets® International President Julie Stewart is a featured speaker at CatalystCon West, held September 11 – 14 in Los Angeles, CA. Stewart will speak alongside Alicia Relles, Coyote Amrich, and Dr. Robert Morgan Lawrence on Sunday, September 14, on the panel, “Material Matters.”

“In the past few years, the sex toy industry has seen more innovation & mainstream acceptance than all previous years combined,” says the CatalystCon site in its description of the panel discussion. “While a stronger grasp of design and functionality has been reached, an understanding of the materials they are made from seems to have become cloudy and full of misinformation. Materials have often been talked about, debated, and discussed, but many of these conversations have focused around the notion of ‘toxicity,’ rather than actual information about these materials, and why they are used.”

“I am so proud to be part of CatalystCon West,” says Sportsheets® President Julie Stewart. “It’s such a wonderful event that brings enthusiastic speakers, attitudes, and attendees together. The diversity of thoughts, ideas, and intellect are second to none. Our panel’s goal is help people become more educated consumers, buyers, writers, and sex educators. The materials we put into our bodies do matter, and this panel will open the door for further knowledge and encouraging forethought before purchasing a product or writing about it.”

Held at The Westin Los Angeles Airport, the “Material Matters” panel discussion will take place in the National Room from 11:00am – 12:10pm. A semi-annual conference, CatalystCon unites sex educators, sexologists, sex workers, writers, activists, pleasure products manufacturers, those in the adult industry, and anyone with a passion for creating change, for a weekend-long convergence of sex-positive discourse. For more information on CatalystCon West, visit http://catalystcon.com and the conference’s Twitter and Facebook pages.

Stewart continues, “As designs and the next great technological advances are made and used, production materials are often not addressed – or worse, incorrectly stated or misunderstood. It’s not just an issue of toxicity – it’s about sensitivities, allergies, differences in products made in the USA or overseas, and more. I am looking forward to being on the ‘Material Matters’ panel with these other distinguished speakers, so we can educate as well as hear the feedback form the attendees.”

Immediately after presenting at CatalystCon West, Sportsheets International will be showcased at the fall International Lingerie Show,held at the Rio Hotel Convention Center in Las Vegas September 15 – 17. Sportsheets’ product lines and collections will be represented by Eldorado, ECN, Nalpac, Holiday, and Williams Trading at the show; distributors and retailers interested in booking an appointment at ILS are invited to contact their distributor or Sportsheets Sales rep or email Sales@Sportsheets.com.  Sportsheets will be debuting Sexperiments, a new brand of toys at the show.

For more information about Sportsheets International, visit http://Sportsheets.com. The company may also be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/SportsheetsIntl, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Keeping.Couples.Connected.

Sportsheets® International has helped ordinary couples find new pleasure and explore new positions together with specialized “relationship tools” since 1993, when the Sportsheet Bondage Bed Sheet sexual positioning and restraint system broke into the market. The company now offers almost 400 specialty items, including the Sportsheets® Premium restraints, sexual positioning products, and strap-on harnesses; the new Sportsheets Plus for plus size couples; Edge Leather line for the consumer looking for high-quality leather gear, the Manbound collection for gay couples; Naughty Night Out® bachelorette line; and the award-winning Sex in The Shower® collection. All of the company’s brands individually and collectively support its goal of Keeping Couples Connected!®” For more information, visit http://sportsheets.com.

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Multiple Award-Winning Plus Size Performer & Model to Represent Iconic Company’s Plus Size Line!

LOS ANGELES — Multiple award-winning BBW star Kelly Shibari has been named Sportsheets® International’s brand ambassador for its new plus size line. Designed for sizes 12 to 30, Sportsheets® Plus products feature longer straps, longer and wider supports as well as wider pads, and greater adjustability to assure the perfect, most comfortable fit, with every product handcrafted in the USA.

“I’m honored to have been asked to be Sportsheet’s brand ambassador,” says Kelly. “The company’s heritage as a long-respected manufacturer of quality bedroom accessories, combined with their new foray into creating products for women of size, makes this offer something I am very proud to represent. I’m looking forward to sharing information about Sportsheets Plus with consumers, retailers, and distributors, as well as my fans.”

Shibari’s responsibilities as Sportsheets® Plus Brand Ambassador will be to educate retailers, distributors, and sales staff on how best to market the line to consumers, including terminology, and offer suggestions on new products for the line. In addition, she will be contributing to the company’s continuing brand outreach via social media and other forms of public relations online.

“We’re very excited to be working with Kelly,” Sportsheets® President Julie Stewart says. “Her intelligence and understanding of our target consumer will help us promote our message that all women should ‘rock their curves’ with confidence.”

Sportsheets® introduced the line of plus-size intimate accessories designed to enhance the unique curves of big, beautiful women, Sportsheets® Plus, earlier this month. Developed by women for women, the new line offers couples of size a sophisticated series of strap on harnesses, sexual positioning tools, and sex toys, all while maintaining its eye on fashion, form, and function — because healthy, satisfying sex knows no bounds. To view the Sportsheets® Plus catalog, visit http://sportsheets.com/sportsheets-plus-catalog/.

Honored for the second year in a row as BBW Performer of the Year at the 2014 Fanny Awards, Kelly Shibari continues to add to her growing number of accolades. The multiple award-winning BBW adult star and sexual figurehead for chubby Asian girls everywhere made sexy pop culture media site Fleshbot’s Top Ten Crush Object List in early 2014. The list includes superstar adult performers Bonnie Rotten and Asa Akira, as well as mainstream icons Miley Cyrus, Tina Fey, Emily Ratajkowski, and Lizzy Caplan. The Japanese performer with hazel green eyes continues to push the boundaries, and win the hearts, of what mainstream adult consumers have long been told was sexy.

Kelly’s groundbreaking stint as the first plus-size model on the cover of a major men’s magazine with its June 2014 issue garnered immediate and positive mainstream media coverage from Huffington Post, Nerve, The Daily Beast, Examiner, and others. The plus size performer’s recent collaboration on the first-ever sex education film for people of size, jessica drake’s Guide to Wicked Sex: Plus Size, with Wicked Pictures and its contract star, writer, producer, and director, jessica drake, received rave reviews and sold out of its initial run.

Kelly is passionate about introducing body positive messages into the media spotlight. The highly accessible Kelly regularly chats with fans and industry peers via her social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook.

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Learn from the experts – Tristan Taormino, Megan Andelloux, Kelly Shibari and bring one in to teach your staff.

“When it comes to sex and relationships, we can all be lifelong learners — we can continue to explore our desires, discover aspects of ourselves and our partners, and learn new things. With a focus on educating consumers, sex toy retailers are an incredible resource for people, giving them information and tools for their unique sexual journey.”
– Tristan Taormino, author * sex educator * filmmaker * college lecturer * radio host

For more information visit the Sportsheets website at www.sportsheets.com or email info@sportsheets.com.

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More than 55% of women purchase clothing sized 16 or larger and 62% identify as being plus size, yet there’s never before been a stylish and well-constructed line of plus-size adult products – until now, of course! We set to work to create sensual options for every body type with a design and development team comprised completely of women whose number one goal was to give plus-size couples new tools to help them build intimacy and confidence from head to toe.

Designed for sizes 12 to 30, Sportsheets Plus products feature longer straps, longer and wider supports as well as wider pads, and greater adjustability to assure the perfect, most comfortable fit, with every product handcrafted in the U.S.
“‘Big Beautiful Women’ is one of the top searches on search engines, and more women not only identify themselves as plus-size, but also embrace it with open minds and hearts,” Sportsheets President Julie Stewart said. “While society still maintains a negative attitude toward larger women – with fat-shaming and other negative stereotypes – there’s a resurgence of sex-positive celebrations of body image among women of all sizes and shapes. And these are the confident and curious consumers that Sportsheets Plus speaks to.”

We can’t wait to hear what you think about the new Sportsheets Plus! We encourage product feedback and reviews and should you need general information about where to find Sportsheets Plus products near you, go to our website at www.sportsheets.com.

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Sportsheets is celebrating another successful ANME Founders Show following a full weekend of non-stop booth traffic with the debut of two brand new product lines. Sales staff worked ‘round the clock showcasing Sportsheets Plus plus-size strap-ons and positioning tools and Edge by Sportsheets leather bondage gear, each with matching retail education and marketing plans to help stores effectively upsell and showcase. The team left with an outstanding number of orders, as well as a StorErotica Award for Retail Education Campaign of the Year, which proves quality and innovation certainly pay off!

Sportsheets Plus took the industry by storm by introducing the first-ever full collection of strap-on harnesses and sexual positioning straps designed with longer straps, longer and wider supports and pads, and greater adjustability to assure the perfect, most comfortable fit for couples sized 12 to 30. Made in Huntington Beach, California and artfully packaged with signature gold foil accents and full-color imagery, Sportsheets Plus offers retailers a sophisticated and sexy way to celebrate healthy, satisfying sex for all sizes.

Edge by Sportsheets is a new direction for the company, bringing to market a high-end series of “Cadillac” BDSM gear made of premium black leather reinforced with white stitching and a sexy marketing campaign. Celebrating the Fine Art of Domination, Edge by Sportsheets brought retailers an effective sales campaign to use alongside the company’s three options for fantasy and bondage play, each priced for a specific target market: Sex & Mischief, Sportsheets Premium and now Edge.

“We’re so proud of what we put together for ANME and the results were incredible – customers (both current and brand new!) flocked to see the new lines in person to feel the quality for themselves,” Sportsheets President Julie Stewart said. “We were working so hard we barely had time for lunch, but the effort paid off – we wrote a record number of show orders and the calls keep coming in!”

Sportsheets also had the honor of taking home a StorErotica Award for Retail Education Campaign of the Year, which recognized the company’s efforts to provide retail supporters with informative and effective marketing and sales tools. Each month, Sportsheets releases new tools featuring marketing tips and tricks; features, benefits and upsell techniques that store clerks can use on the sales floor; and suggestions for visually stunning and attractive product displays.

Please call (714) 698-0877 or email your Sportsheets sales rep to place an order or more information.

For more information about Sportsheets, please visit http://www.sportsheets.com.

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Sportsheets is proud to welcome Catrina Falbo to the sales team, a veteran of sales, marketing, networking and customer service for more than 20 years. A fresh face to the adult industry, Falbo will hold the role of Sales Specialist and assist the growing team and support their work building strong, lasting relationships domestically and in burgeoning markets abroad.

Falbo’s main role will be to help Sportsheets increase its market share across the board with special focus on the manufacturer’s latest releases, which are poised to follow in the record-breaking footsteps of the company’s award-winning Sex In the Shower and Sex & Mischief collections.

Sportsheets Plus, the first-ever line of products made for plus-size couples, and Edge by Sportsheets, an all-leather line of BDSM gear that celebrates the art of domination, will be two exciting debuts this summer. Both come accompanied by marketing support and merchandising information to help inform and educate stores about these two key, yet often underserved, categories. Falbo and the team will be available to provide detailed instruction and training on both lines – as well as all existing popular lines – to assure every customer has the support and collateral they need to spread the word and inspire sales.

“Sales has always been my forte and as an avid fan of Sportsheets products, I jumped at the chance to join the team and support their effort to get these beautifully made intimate items in even more stores around the world,” Falbo said. “I’m a vivacious go-getter and have been a self-starter since I can remember, which makes me a perfect fit for this role. I’m looking forward to learning the ins and outs of – and building strong relationships within – this tight-knit industry.”

Falbo made her official industry debut at the ANME Founders Show this past weekend in Burbank, Calif. She can be reached at catrina@sportsheets.com.

Please call (714) 698-0877 or email your Sportsheets sales rep to schedule an appointment.

For more information about Sportsheets, please visit http://www.sportsheets.com.

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LOS ANGELES — Porn Guardian co-founder Peter Phinney says that the strategy of his organization’s new Product Piracy Pilot Program, launching this weekend at ANME in collaboration with the Free Speech Coalition, is to make it “uncomfortable and [financially] unproductive” for sellers of counterfeit merchandise.SS approved gold logo small screamingo_logo small

    Since 2009, Porn Guardian has been offering anti-piracy services to the content side of adult, removing bootleg DVDs from eBay, Amazon and iOffer.

“Through that endeavor of policing the online sales and online auction sites for counterfeit goods, we began to see more and more instances of what looked like patent and trademark infringement of pleasure products — specifically toys whose brands we knew that appeared to be knocked off and offered as genuine brand name merchandise but at drastically reduced price points,” Phinney said. “When we looked into some examples, we found that sometimes a well known and carefully built brand name was being used to sell merchandise that was made offshore with inferior components and packaging, but sold as first quality.”

Through a partnership with the Free Speech Coalition, a pilot program was launched with Sportsheets and Screaming O in November. In January, the companies and the FSC reported on it with a seminar during the FSC Summit that was held at the W Hotel in conjunction with XBIZ 360.

The new division of Porn Guardian is dedicated to seeking out and exposing counterfeit merchandise, as well as removing it from online merchant platforms.

“We’ve developed a system that uses human eyes on the screen, to locate infringements and counterfeiting, then reports these to the manufacturers as a ‘Daily Digest,’ so they can make a determination about how best to proceed in order to protect their interests,” Phinney said. “Occasionally we find a seller who has a wholesale distribution agreement with the manufacturer but is violating the terms of that agreement, occasionally we find a seller who is simply manufacturing knock-offs in a factory in China, and occasionally we find a seller who is using the brand and its reputation to sell merchandise that is not even offered by the company at all, but their trademark name is being used for its marketing value alone.”

Phinney told XBIZ that while eBay.com will remove counterfeit items within hours of reporting them, Amazon.com is slow to come around.

“Amazon’s copyright department takes the position that they’re a retail platform only,” Phinney said. “They don’t want to get involved in disputes between manufacturers and sellers, even if it revolves around copyright issues. I think they’re still trying to find their way through that mine field. Once we find the right lever to pull I think we’ll solve that problem. I don’t think Amazon wants to get a reputation as the place to go buy knockoffs.”

Phinney says that the process for determining if a product is a knock-off includes scouring a manufacturer’s catalog and searching for differences in product details, packaging image quality and price, as well as where the product is shipping from.

“We support 35 independent infringement agents located across 17 time zones, searching for infringing and counterfeit products on offer illegally online,” he said. “There does not appear to be any permanent fix to this problem quite yet, but we have been able to effect much deeper searches and provide far earlier notification than manufacturers had been finding themselves with limited in-house resources.

“Our goal is to grow this offering and ultimately provide a vehicle for manufacturers to consider collective action against some of the major players in trademark infringement and counterfeiting,” Phinney said. “As we grow our client base, we become a more powerful force by helping product creators work together to bring illicit activity into the daylight and curb illegal manufacturing to help the pleasure products side regain market share and protect their carefully crafted and supported brands.”

The subscription-based service is available to manufacturers for $450/month, even if it includes several brands. As part of its collaboration with the FSC, manufacturers who are members of the FSC can get the service for $250/month. The program goes live with its first paying clients in July 10.

For more information, email peter@piracystopshere.com

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Take everything you have ever thought about S&M and toss it out your voyeuristic window…because this new line from Sportsheets will redefine the way you view S&M! In the most beautifully photographed fashion forward packaging we have ever seen, S&M shows just how sexy, mischievous and playful restraints, floggers, and blindfolds can really be. Rather than the usual basic description for each item, they have chosen to use suggestive non-threatening and unfinished bedroom “scenarios” to describe each product in a way that can show any playful couple a way to easily introduce a little bit of adventure into their love life!

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Sportsheets Plus & Edge by Sportsheets to set new precedence industry-wide

Sportsheets is set to debut two brand new product collections at the upcoming ANME Founders Show in sunny Burbank, Calif., and prepared to set a new precedence in two growing product categories. Sportsheets Plus will take the spotlight as the industry’s first-ever Plus line of sex toys, positioning tools and strap-ons made for big, beautiful couples while Edge by Sportsheets will leave a lasting impression with the Cadillac of leather BDSM gear. Sportsheets Plus is comprised of quality sexual positioning devices and strap-on harnesses with added features – longer straps, longer and wider supports and pads, and greater adjustability to assure the perfect, most comfortable fit – designed for sizes 12 to 30. With more than 55% of women purchasing clothing sized 16 or larger and 62% identifying as being overweight, Sportsheets Plus recognizes the necessity to provide sexy, sensual options for every body type and reminds consumers and retailers alike that healthy, satisfying sex has no bounds.

“Sportsheets Plus speaks to the confident and sexually curious consumer who identifies as plus size but refuses to accept the negative attitude that often overshadows larger women – and men, too – as sexual beings,” Sportsheets President Julie Stewart said. “There is a burgeoning resurgence of sex-positive celebrations of all shapes and sizes and Sportsheets Plus embraces and honors it with top-of-the-line designs.”

Proudly made in the USA, Sportsheets Plus was developed by women for women™ and is perfectly poised for the growing (and underserved) plus size market.

“Each item was tested by women who wear sizes 20-28 and their feedback was excellent,” Stewart said. “Their essential responses and suggestions played an important role in the production process and there are many more item already in the pipeline as a result.”

Edge by Sportsheets is an exciting new release that celebrates the fine art of domination with the highest quality leather materials and construction ever released by the award-winning manufacturer. Made for a leather lovers, experienced players, and newcomers who demand the very best, Edge by Sportsheets restraints, harnesses and other BDSM devices boast an elegantly cohesive look with black leather and white stitching. The new line is expertly merchandised to make it easy for retailers to offer next-level bondage gear with a sophisticated display.

“Edge by Sportsheets may not appeal to every shopper, but those who are drawn to this tier deserve the highest quality gear on the market,” Stewart said. “This was an exciting and invigorating endeavor for Sportsheets, as entering the high-level leather category has always been part of our plan, and we’re so excited to officially release this incredible new line. We can’t wait to see our customers’ and colleagues’ reactions and help set a new standard for these key markets.”

The Sportsheets team will showcase Sportsheets Plus and Edge by Sportsheets at the ANME Founders Show July 12-14 with a special event promotion for all qualifying customers. Pre-orders are being accepted now – please contact preferred sales representatives for more information.

Please call (714) 698-0877 or email your Sportsheets sales rep to schedule an appointment.

For more information about Sportsheets, please visit http://www.sportsheets.com.

Sportsheets International^® has helped ordinary couples find new pleasure and explore new positions together with specialized “relationship tools” since 1993, when the Sportsheet Bondage Bed Sheet^TM sexual positioning and restraint system broke into the market. The company now offers more than 350 specialty items, including the Sportsheets Premium restraints, sexual positioning products, and strap-on harnesses; the new Sportsheets Plus for plus size couples, Edge Leather line for the consumer looking for high quality leather products, the Manbound^TM collection for gay couples; Naughty Night Out^® bachelorette line; and the award-winning Sex in The Shower^® collection. All of the company’s brands individually and collectively support its goal of Keeping Couples Connected!^®”

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