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A sex toy is any thing used mainly for facilitating human sexual pleasure.
The term can also be taken to include BDSM apparatus. The term usually does not include
contraceptives, pornography, or condoms.
The term marital aid is often used as a euphemism for sex toys, although that term is also sometimes applied to drugs and herbs marketed as supposedly
enhancing or prolonging sex.
Legal Issues
In many areas, such as some U.S. Southern states, the
sale of sex toys is either regulated or prohibited, though enforcement is often rare. Nonetheless the laws are on the books and
these laws prohibiting or regulating "obscene devices" occasionally take center stage. As recently as 1999, an assitant attorney
general in Alabama commenting on a case involving sex toys and discussing to what end the devices are used for was quoted as
saying there is no "fundamental right for a person to buy a device to produce orgasm". It is also common practice for someone to
move a motor home near a proposed sex shop as a means of protest to prevent the shop from opening where the law prohibits an
"adult" establishment within a certain distance of a dwelling.
Types of Sex Toys
- Anal beads consist of a device like a string of beads that is inserted in the anus and then slowly pulled out to provide anal stimulation.
- Butt plugs are devices that are inserted in the anus for pleasure. They have a flared end to prevent the
device from being lost inside the body.
- Cock-rings are used to provide sensation (to one or both partners) by wrapping the base of the penis. They may also be used to delay the onset of male orgasm or to maintain an erection.
- A cock harness is a more elaborate harness designed to be worn around the penis and scrotum. Its intention is similar to that of a cock ring. Often associated with BDSM activities.
A sex toy
- A dildo is a non-vibrating device which is used for sexual stimulation of the vagina. A godemiche is an old word for a dildo in the shape of a penis and scrotum.
- An electrode is used in erotic
electrostimulation to apply electricity to various parts of the body for sexual gratification. A stainless steel
urethral sound may be used as such an electrode when
connected to electrostimulation equipment.
- A strap-on dildo is a dildo attached to a dildo harness strapped to the groin and hips,
generally to allow a person to penetrate a partner as if the dildo were the
penetrator's own penis. In particular, it allows a woman to penetrate a man anally
or another woman vaginally or anally.
- A double-ended dildo is a long, usually flexible dildo with both ends designed for penetration. It allows
for mutual penetration between two women.
- Vibrators are vibrating devices intended to stimulate the nerves of the body.
Vibrators intended for sexual use are often dildo-shaped, although they also come in a bewildering range of shapes, allowing
internal as well as external use.
- Sybians are a combination of a saddle shaped mount, with a vibrator mounted on
it.
- Sexual lubricants are lubricants used to facilitate anal or vaginal sex, or as an aid to masturbation.
- Sex dolls are imitations of the human form intended for simulation of
sexual acts. They may consist of a representation of a face, the buttocks, genital areas, or the entire body. Most sex dolls are
inflatable.
- Nipple clamps are a family of
tools which apply pressure to the nipples. They are often used as BDSM toys or torture devices. Some of them can also provide
constant, intense nipple stimulation and heightened sensitivity.
- "Pocket Pussies" or
"vaginas" or "masturbators" are modeled to accept a penis for simulated intercourse. They are
either shaped like vagina, or butt, or anything with a hole for penetration.
- Medical specula are sometimes used as sex toys.
See also: teledildonics, Realdoll, Sexual intercourse, masturbation
Various flesh-like materials
- silicone
- soft and lifelike, warms up quickly to body temperature, non-porous therefore easy to clean (with mild soap and water, or
boiled for sterilization)
- Cyberskin / Ultraskin / Eroskin / Softskin / Cyber Jel-lee / Futurotic
- relatively new material (currently the closest emulation of real skin), made of silicone and plastic, very porous therefore
must be cleaned very thoroughly (with Cyberskin cleaning solution or antibacterial soap and water)
- jelly
- cheaper, rubber-based material, quite porous
- latex rubber
- cheaper, very porous, might be allergenic
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