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How many times have sex toys been the subject of schoolboy sniggers? How often have women giggled at the prospect of touching yet alone using a vibrator?<\/p>\nHow many times have sex toys been the subject of schoolboy sniggers? How often have women giggled at the prospect of touching yet alone using a vibrator?<\/p>\n
Now things are changing. I\u2019m not saying that sex toys are the normal topic of conversation for everyone or that any occasion is appropriate to bring up the subject of self-pleasure but it\u2019s surprising how often sex toys come up in my life.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not talking here about the online, adult, sex toy testing side of my life \u2013 the other bit. The bit where I work in an office, deal with clients in non-adult businesses and communicate in a pretty \u201cnormal\u201d way with those around me. It happens from time to time that the subject of sex and sex toys arises. The majority of occasions it\u2019s in the context of a joke, not \u201cOh I got this great vibrator the other day \u2026\u201d and that\u2019s exactly what made me write this post.<\/p>\n
However unlike other occasions the circumstances of the incident highlighted just how far we\u2019ve come.<\/p>\n
I was passing through the reception area of one of my client\u2019s buildings when I noticed the receptionist was in fits of giggles. Her wireless mouse had stopped working and she had rung to the main office to see if they had any AA batteries. Their reaction had been to suggest she wanted to use them for her vibrator and that she had run them down amusing herself because it had been a quiet morning.<\/p>\n
If the conversation on the phone had been between two \u201cSex And The City\u201d types 20s to 40s maybe, and they had kept it to themselves it wouldn\u2019t have been so notable. But the receptionist is easily old enough to be my mother and she chose to tell me about it. Twice!<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong I find it refreshing that a mature woman can talk openly about sex toys to a guy many years her junior. OK, I know she didn\u2019t tell me how she preferred to use them but it did open my eyes.<\/p>\n
Suze and I are often reminding ourselves that we are now part of the adult industry and that we have to be careful when making assumptions about what is and isn\u2019t acceptable in normal society. It\u2019s so easy to assume that because you can discuss sex toys or porn when at an adult event or business meeting that the wider world has the same open and accepting attitude. Porn is lagging behind sex toys, there\u2019s something about the graphic depiction of sex, often adventurous sex that is less palatable to the non-adult-involved public.<\/p>\n
And yet sex toys are perhaps more intimate. Sex in a movie is at its most basic simply a documenting of the human activity of copulation \u2013 sex toys are implicitly linked with self-pleasure, an activity that is taboo in many societies and religions.<\/p>\n
Yes, you could argue that the purpose of pornography is to aid masturbation although many couples watch pornography together.<\/p>\n
The world is changing people \u2013 keep up!<\/p>\n
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