OK, we're going to weigh in here. This is a very popular topic so we just this week filmed a series of videos on sex toys, vibrators, sex toy safety, sexual lubricants, and more. They'll be up soon.
And since we're talking about sex toys, I will add the caveat that this message is intended fro grown ups, i.e. consenting adults.
First, who needs sex toys? Just singles?A common myth is that sex toys are just for singles hoping to not need a sex partner. While a woman CAN use a vibrator by herself, that won't meet her need for companionship and social pack interaction. Neither is a man masturbating daily adequate sexual companionship for himself. :)
Homemade sex toys? What can you use as sex toys around the house?yes, there are things around the house that you can use as sex toys. In fact our friend Michael Webb even has a new ebook called
Sex Around the House with great ideas for what you can do with what you have around the house to spice up your sex life.
Does safety matter with sex toys? Yes!!! If you're putting a foreign object inside your body it better be clean, or you risk infection - that's just one risk, but to get you thinking in that direction. Also it could cause cuts or bruising internally if the object wasn't specifically designed to be used safely as a sex toy and inserted there.
So: sex toy safety is a huge topic, and thats' one reason we recommend you use high quality sex toys that have been designed with that use in mind, that way you're likely to have more fun and have safe fun as well.
It's also important to use lots of sexual lubricant (our
favorite general purpose water based lube is Maximus)
What types of sex toys should you look at?Wow, that's a broad topic. First off, check out some basic vibrators - here's a list of
vibrators from our sex to partners Eden Fantasys (be sure to click on "best sellers" and also "top rated" and see the difference in what shows up.
A personal favorite is
the Lelo Elise G-spot vibrator; it's not cheap, but perhaps the best vibrator ever, lol.
Where should you get sex toys? Sex toy selection in drugstores is limited to almost nothing - notwithstanding the new Magnum finger vibrator that we'll probably be seeing in stores soon
General stores like Amazon have a little selection, but it's not very good. Your best bet is to go with a website that specializes in sex toys, and also provides you good helpful information to decide.
We recommend an
online sex toy online retailer called Eden Fantasys, which is by far our favorite sex toys store. We just partnered with them to bring you video reviews of all kinds of toys, so we'll be mentioning them more here and in our new sex toy videos.
What we like most is their review community of real people that review sex toys and add their pros/cons. And from working with them, we like that they're real people, not some faceless megacorp; but they also have a great selection. Nobody's perfect, but from our interactions with them we recommend them highly.
Also, they do ship boxes with innocuous labels, like "from shipping warehouse" or whatever.
Leave a comment below and let us know what you end up going with, what toys you get, and how your experience was.