The variety of adult toys is surprising. Sex toys change from purely male or purely female adult toys to toys that can be used by both sexes. Additionally, there are some sex toys that can also be classified as sex aids or marital aids.
THE OBJECTIVE OF Sex Toys
Some adult toys aid the man’s erection, stimulate the female genitals to are more sensitive or give a different feel to ‘normal’ sex. Other sex toys provide an ‘environment’ for variations in sex, for instance so called orgy bed sheets. Sometimes they are used to greatly help someone who has difficulty with unaided sex to achieve sexual satisfaction. However most adult toys provide a new way to directly stimulate the male or female genitals to achieve sexual satisfaction.
Using sex toys can provide new experiences and variation in the sexual experience. Additionally, it may provide a fantasy element for enhancing or revitalising a relationship.
The usual expectation is that a sex toy provides direct stimulation of the genitals in foreplay and/or during sexual activity or as a means to obtain orgasm through only the stimulation provided by the sex toy.
Types of Sex Toys
Vibrating Sex Toys
Probably the most well known adult toys are ‘vibrators’ which, because the name suggests, provide stimulation of the genitals using vibration. They are mainly utilized to stimulate the clitoris, but may also be used to stimulate any other part of the female body or that of a man’s.
The simplest of the are pencil or wand shaped (though normally thicker than a pencil). They often have an internal battery (or two) which powers a small electric motor. Sometimes the battery pack and controller are external and linked to the vibrator by way of a wire. This motor is fitted with a little, out of balance, weight attached to the shaft. As this weight rotates it throws the motor and vibrator right into a small circular movement which in turn causes the vibration you feel.
With a vibrator that has a controller, because the power is increased the speed of the motor increases and with it both rate and strength of vibration. Both the strength and rate of vibration effects how stimulating you find the sex toy. The best effect may not be as strong and as fast as possible. The optimum settings may well change as your degree of excitement builds. To get the very best results it is worth investing in a vibrator which is controllable.
Different vibrators will have different characteristics and you’ll well find you like one combination much more than another as well as your preference may even vary depending on which part of your body you are stimulating.
More recently electronic vibrator controllers have appeared which provide not merely the static control of power/speed but additionally permit you to select patterns of power pulses and surges. These can be very effective.
There are also other vibrating sex toys such as butterfly stimulators and vibrating penis rings.
Other Powered Sex Toys
There are some sex toys that use other ways to supply mechanical stimulation. These usually be determined by a motor which makes the sex toy continually change its shape which provides sort of rotational movement or makes it move back and forth. 避孕套 and forth movements are occasionally powered by an air pump rather than motor. The movements have been used to create, for example, mechanical licking tongues, vibrators that ‘penetrate’ the vagina and mouth simulators to give a man a ‘blow job’.
On a bigger scale plus much more expensive, you can find ‘sex machines’ that incorporate thrusting and vibrating dildos.
Combination Sex Toys
So far we have covered vibrating, moving and thrusting sex toys. As you may have guessed they are all offered in a bewildering array of combinations.
A common combination in many ‘Rabbit Style’ vibrators is clitoral stimulation using vibrations and vaginal stimulation using movement and sometimes a thrusting motion aswell.
Many sex toys add varying textures with their surfaces; a dildo or vibrator could have ridges or soft spikes or a rippled shape.
Sensation Change Sex Toys
Some sex toys instead of provide vibrating or moving stimulation, change the feel of sex.
For instance there are a variety of sleeves to put over the penis to supply different sensations for both partners while engaged in penetrative sex.
You can find rings that squeeze the base of the penis and/or tighten the scrotum that assist the man’s erection and also changes his sensations. There are penis extenders and thickeners which may provide a man’s partner greater sensations during penetration.
There are a wide selection of lubricants that can significantly change the feel of sex.
There are PVC and Polyurethane bed sheets that are water and oil proof that can be used for slippery or messy sex.
Why Use A Sex Toy?
An excellent question is: why do people use a sex toy? Surely fingers, tongues, penises, clitorises and vaginas etc all provide great sexual stimulation and enjoyment.
Well, apart from therapeutic uses (eg erection assistance), sex toys can drive the imagination (being taken by way of a machine), provide variety (new methods to do old things), vary the stimulating effects in otherwise normal sex (penis sleeves) and some can provide experiences not possible with ‘normal body parts’ (particularly vibrating adult toys and electro-stimulation).
Where To Start
If you have not tried a masturbator before and don’t yet have a good idea of what you might like, try one of many simpler vibrators first. Almost certainly you will benefit from the experience and then begin to wonder what other delights can be found with more sophisticated vibrators along with other sex toys …