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Sex Toys

attery-powered "marital aids" are always good for some discussion.  Men should occasionally take a peek through the wife/gf's underwear drawer, just to check out the competition. Why some people still disapprove of these sorts of things, I have no idea, but at least their conservative attitudes give me something to blog about, from time to time.

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April 22, 2003

Here's a news item I want to comment on. Sensation-deadening condoms.

I find it interesting since there's some new article about them, with a German company making them.  The article about it has been one of the most popular on Yahoo for a few days, for reasons unclear to me. Who really cares? Or is anything sort of explicitly about sex just irresistible to the Yahoo news story-forwarding masses?

Before I get into commenting on it, I want to point out that this isn't even new news.  I remembered writing about that before, on this site, and a quick google search turned up the day.  It was last June 19th (the day before my B-day, coincidentally) and the article about it can be seen here.

That article is a lot more interesting, and the numbing condoms aren't even the main thrust of it.  So to speak.  The article is mostly about smaller sized condoms for the juvenile market, which I'm still not sure is even legal, with the numbing ones only mentioned after that.

I don't know if this sounds hopelessly immodest or what, but I really can't believe this is a necessary product.  My impression has always been that most guys hate using condoms since they take away so much of the sensation, and that achieving orgasm with one on was usually sort of difficult.  That's certainly been my experience, but various women I've asked about it have said that most men they've been with were usually easily-able to come with one on, and often they (the men) were still of the "two minute brothers" type.

In that case I don't think a condom with anything short of Novocain would matter, since obviously it's all mental. The guys are popping so quickly since they are frantically excited, or nervous, or whatever, and it's got next to nothing to do with the vaginal sensations, and next to everything to do with what's going on in their minds.  And if they are so obsessed with vagina that they can't help but pop almost immediately, I don't think some numbing to cut the sensation will matter much.

The only benefit the numbing condoms might have for guys like that would be almost a placebo effect. The guy thinks it'll cut the sensation, and thinks he'll last longer, and therefore he does, whether the condom makes any difference or not.

Why doesn't the company just make the condoms much thicker? That would be easier, I'd think, and would cut off a lot more sensation than some mild anesthetic. Though since it's not all high tech it wouldn't get publicity or generate curiosity sales, so there's my answer.

 

 

November 23, 2002

One of the sillier laws in the US is found in Texas.  There it's illegal to sell sex toys, and if you have more than six of them it's a felony, as you are considered to be dealing them.  Some woman got stopped for a DUI, and while searching her truck the cops found a box full of dildos.  Seventeen of them, and she might get up to two years in prison for her horrible offense.  She's undoubtedly guilty of possession with intent to distribute; the question is if anyone is actually going to enforce the law against such a stupid victimless crime.

Grubbs, 47, said she has been selling the items for about two months as a distributor for Slumber Parties Inc., a national sex toy party business that operates out of Ohio and Louisiana.

Slumber Parties is where the Tupperware party meets Victoria's Secret, the company says on its Web site. The distributors host women-only parties in private homes to show off their merchandise. Grubbs stresses the parties are only for adults, meaning no one allowed under age 18, and men are definitely prohibited.

 

 

September 27, 2002

Dildo discussion.  Now there's a phrase you don't hear every day, huh?

The following stems from my first seeing this amusing story about a sex toy recall.  There's a more salacious version of it here.

LONDON (Reuters) - A rabbit-eared sex toy was recalled on Thursday by British retailer Ann Summers out of concern it could cause injury to an unsuspecting user.

Yes, you heard right.  "Rabbit-eared sex toy".  Another phrase you don't hear every day.

The lingerie and sex toy chain said a batch of about 150,000 of the top-selling "Rampant Rabbit" vibrators were found to have defective seals that might allow the spillage of tiny beads contained in the shaft.

Their official site lists the recall, but they also have the vibrator still on their sex toy page, with a "quality assured" tag.  Different model?

Okay, so you're probably like me, wondering what the hell a "Rampant Rabbit" is, what it looks like, what's with the beads, etc.  Either that or you're looking towards your knickers drawer with a guilty smile.

The Rampant Rabbit has been flying off store shelves since a character praised it in the hit U.S. television series "Sex and City."

Ah, so that's why they are now well known enough to post news about.

I had to know what they were and if other people sold them, so I did a quick Google search for "rampant rabbit vibrator" and that returned about 9000 site matches.  Number two on the list was this UK sex toy page, which has several models of them and explicit descriptions of their function, with lots of bold text, and even capitalized bold text.  That's how you know it's really important.

THE RABBIT PEARL ROTATING VIBRATOR features a 7" space age cock with the internal pearl-driven rotation, THAT GOES IN BOTH DIRECTIONS! Plus a rabbit-shaped clit stimulator with its own internal vibrating egg for an unmatched clitoral massaging action! Combine these features with the NEW EASY-TO-USE external hand controller for the Best Orgasm of your life. You will wonder how you managed all those years without one!

This isn't the exact brand that's being recalled, but it's obviously a rip off of the same concept.  The point seems to be that it's a rotating plunger device, attached to a vibrating rabbit-shaped shaft.  The rabbit ears are flexible and soft, for clitoral stimulation (keep that in mind next time you're stabbing at your gf's little man in the boat like you're trying to sink it) and the beads in the shaft do... something.

I don't see how they'd work exactly.  I guess they provide a contoured feeling, molding to your internal shape better than the traditional "molded veins" dildo construction. Yes men, we're pretty well obsolete at this point.

The study of female sex toys can illustrate many truths.  For one thing, women are a goddamned puzzle.  You see a male sex toy?  Most men have no need for one, being as their hands are more than sufficient for the task.  The ones you do see are either molded latex of the "pocket pussy" type, or else the somewhat frightening penis pumps, that look way too much like some sort of Bobbitizer, in my opinion.  I've never used any of these, tragically.

You don't see male ones that have multi-vibrating attachments, testicle-ticklers, prostate-massagers, and heating and vibrating action all in one.  Men just don't need that; we'd probably orgasm in about 10 seconds with that level of stimulation.  It's very seldom for a man that "I take too long to come" is a big complaint. The main problem is that men are hornier, and have a much larger surface area to stimulate.  Even the smallest penis is far larger than a clitoris, and since very few women can get off from vaginal stimulation alone, they've got to try and concentrate their stimulation on a far smaller spot.  I'm not going to get into nerve ending counts, but a comparison I once heard was that a man should try masturbating by stimulating nothing but one half of the very tip of his penis, and see how easy it was.

So men have it easier, in terms of getting off, and their sex toys reflect that.  Almost all the male ones are basically a hole that you insert yourself into.  Yes, there are male dildo-shaped vibrators and butt plugs and cock rings, but for the most part it's a hole, and you put your dick into it.  The only real breakthrough in male toys is that some of them allow hands-free operation, or at least remove the need for a stroking movement. I'm not including Real Dolls in this listing, since they're like a whole 'nother level, designed more for mental stimulation than the actual physical sensations. That and they're creepy.

Female toys, on the other hand, have more technology than the Apollo Space Program.  The old days of rubber dildos are long gone.  Now everything is made of some sort of space age material, warms to body temperature, and tends to have several individual motors.  Men don't come with these parts.  Men have a rubbery dildo-like attachment that generally can't remain firm for all that long, big clumsy motor oil-stained fingers, and an easily-exhausted tongue that unlike rabbit ears, comes with taste buds and an unfortunate proximity to the nose.  Neither of which are conducive to long term use in the manner and location women would most like the attendant tongue applied.  So are men inferior to a good rabbit-ear vibrator?  Sexually yes, but good luck getting the rabbit-eared vibrator to mow the lawn or buy you shoes, honey.

One reassuring (to men) feature of sex toys is that you never see any female dildos advertised as "painfully large".  In fact most of them are pretty modest in size, and the ones with butterfly or rabbit ear attachments don't appear to be more than 4 or 5 inches long.  They say they are 7 or 8 inches, but that's including the shaft below the rabbit attachment, which is a rip off, since you can't use that part anyway.

This gives evidence that women don't necessarily need to feel direct pressure on their appendix to be satisfied.  The only problem is that they (women) do very much tend to prefer a larger penis.  I've written about this before, but in my informal surveys, results are running around 98% who say that size very much does matter.  Women can and will dump guys who have small dicks.  Now if they are deeply in love they'll obviously put up with less than man-donkey, but they would prefer larger.

So why don't they buy fireplace-log sized dildos?

  • Men don't come with vibrating clit stimulators that can function at the same time as the penis, so need all the size they can get?
  • It's psychologically sexy to have a big man, but who cares what size a toy is?
  • A big toy would stretch them out, making the inevitably-inadequate men they settled for even less satisfying?
  • They'd feel like a goddamned whore?

It could be any or none of the above.  I don't have an answer for it myself. If any female readers (or men who are good at pretending) want to write in and give me their opinion, I'll be happy to take it under consideration.

Or as a gay friend of mine asked, "Why would you want a clit tickler on a dildo?" Let me know.

 

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