Novelty Sex
Last week we had a very interesting meeting with one of the UK’s few sex toy designers. He was in the area and met up with us to demonstrate at a local adult store how his product worked and we went for a coffee afterwards.
It was a great sharing experience as we all bounced thoughts and ideas off each other. What you could call an educational evening with extras. I came away with one of their products which I will be reviewing in the near future.
One interesting point he did make and I must admit it was something which crossed my mind, is why do Americans refer to sex toys as “Novelties”? They aren’t novelties or adult novelties, they are sex toys!
Is this because some states deny access to sex toys and will not permit sex stores to open in their cities? Or is someone pretending that they don’t get off using that toy they bought, they bought it just for the fun of it? Lol
I don’t really know, but over here we believe in telling it like it is and you will not see the word novelty used in any of the sex shops I go to. And we don’t get served by people dressed in white coats with pens in their top pockets and thick rimmed glasses. The guys at our local adult store dress smart casual.
Someone please explain what this is all about, enlighten me.
It’s definitely because of the laws. In Dallas, Texas it’s illegal to have a realistic looking dildo! Actually, after having been to sex toy stores in Dallas, I’m not sure it still is, but you get the point. People here are more conservative about sex than they are violence. It’s stupid and something I’ve always hated about this country.
Agree with Isabelle, certainly in most areas of the USA, lots of services of that ilk the wording is implied when marketed. Novelty is the word the religious folk use to assuage their guilt.
While most yanks could give a damn if they said sex toy or not, there is a really loud vocal minority that is afraid of such language and thought. But mostly in(USA), it really depends on where you live, i.e. San Francisco laws regulating that market are much more generous compared to a city like Dallas, or say Wichita, Kansas.
Where I live in southern Missouri, you can only sell certain types of sex toys, and there can only be a certain number of “adult novelty stores” within the city limits.
Hope that helps..
J
In my town in upstate NY a adult store has to be outside the city limits! I guess some people don’t know it is 2010.