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Sex is just like any other aspect of our lives. It is subject to the general advancement of knowledge, fashion and changes in our society. Because of that when you look back even only a few years it is easy to wonder what we were all thinking.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a difference between primitive sex toys made in stone by Neolithic man and those crafted in the purest and crudest bright orange plastic by 1970s technicians. When you don\u2019t have the technology to produce anything better then it\u2019s understandable that your sex toys are a bit crude but in the 20th<\/sup> century! OK so not as many sex toys were sold, material sciences weren\u2019t quite as advanced as they are now and therefore the money simply wasn\u2019t there to develop toys until the past couple of decades but some were pretty horrid.<\/p>\n Between a smooth vibrator, cock shaped dildo and \u201cChinese Love Eggs\u201d the choice of sex toys was not what you\u2019d call extensive. Thank goodness we have moved on since then.<\/p>\n One of the legendary sex aid that I remember from my childhood is Spanish Fly. Made traditionally from the dried, crushed bodies of insects this particular sexual enhancer has a very dark side. Its active ingredient is a group of chemicals called Cantharides which are actually banned in the US because they are potentially fatal. While the chemicals are used to encourage animals to mate their primary effect on animal physiology seems primarily to be to inflame the urinary tract \u2013 feeling like I\u2019ve got a bladder infection is not something that usually makes me want to have sex. In some cases these Cantharides can cause kidney failure and death. Nice.<\/p>\n It puts a whole different complexion on the sly winks and surreptitious nudges about Spanish Fly when I was growing up.<\/p>\n First published in 1972 \u201cThe Joy Of Sex\u201d famously featured a hairy man and almost equally hairy woman \u2013 sorry that sounded cruel, I simply meant that shaving and waxing were not the done thing at the time. It was a book more influential than many people at the time would want you to believe enlightening couple to the possibilities of sex beyond the missionary position. In some respects it was probably a bit of a scurrilous revolution in the suburbs as very respectable middle managers suddenly became a lot less boring.<\/p>\n Of course if you were in to swinging in the 1970s then none of this would have come as a huge shock to you. Swinging was another one of those topics that solicited sniggers and formed the basis of a string of stand-up comedian\u2019s jokes. Even then in the \u201cGolden Age of Swinging\u201d only a tiny minority of the population took part, but that\u2019s enough for popular culture and the tabloid press to enjoy as a bit of salacious titiliation.<\/p>\n And after a 20 year lull where swinging seemed to drop off the radar it\u2019s back with a vengeance. Now you can swing, go dogging, have a polyamorous relationship or any of the above, somehow it doesn\u2019t have the mystique \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sex is just like any other aspect of our lives. It is subject to the general advancement of knowledge, fashion and changes in our society. Because of that when you … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1120,3,35,25],"tags":[157,3113,156,3115,3114,3117,3112,4246,3116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12828,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12826\/revisions\/12828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}