The variety of sex toys is surprising. Sex toys change from purely male or purely female adult toys to toys which you can use by both sexes. There are also 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 feminine genitals to are more sensitive or provide a different feel to ‘normal’ sex. Other sex toys offer an ‘environment’ for variations in sex, for example so called orgy bed sheets. Sometimes they are used to help a person who has difficulty with unaided sex to achieve sexual satisfaction. However most adult toys provide a new way to directly stimulate the female or male genitals to accomplish sexual satisfaction.

Using sex toys can offer 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 a sex toy provides direct stimulation of the genitals in foreplay and/or during sexual activity or as a means to acquire orgasm through only the stimulation supplied by the sex toy.

Types of Sex Toys

Vibrating Sex Toys

Probably the most well known sex toys are ‘vibrators’ which, as the name suggests, provide stimulation of the genitals using vibration. They’re mainly used to stimulate the clitoris, but could also be used to stimulate any other the main 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 little electric motor. Sometimes the battery power and controller are external and linked to the vibrator by way of a wire. This motor is fitted with a small, out of balance, weight mounted on the shaft. As this weight rotates it throws the motor and vibrator 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 very best effect is probably not as strong and as fast as you possibly can. The optimum settings may well change as your amount of excitement builds. To get the very best results it is worth buying a vibrator which is controllable.

Different vibrators could have different characteristics and you may well find you like one combination much more than another and 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 also enable 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 adult toys that use other ways to provide mechanical stimulation. These usually be determined by a motor that makes the sex toy continually change its shape which gives a sort of rotational movement or makes it move back and forth. The trunk and forth movements are occasionally powered by an air mattress pump rather than a motor. The movements have already 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’ve covered vibrating, moving and thrusting sex toys. Because you can have guessed these are all offered in a bewildering array of combinations.

A common combination in lots of ‘Rabbit Style’ vibrators is clitoral stimulation using vibrations and vaginal stimulation using movement and sometimes a thrusting motion aswell.

Many adult toys add varying textures with their surfaces; a dildo or vibrator could have ridges or soft spikes or perhaps a rippled shape.

Sensation Change Sex Toys

Some sex toys rather than provide vibrating or moving stimulation, change the feel of sex.

For instance there are a number of sleeves to put over the penis to provide 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 in addition changes his sensations. There are penis extenders and thickeners which might provide a man’s partner greater sensations during penetration.

There are a wide variety of lubricants that may significantly change the feel of sex.

You can find PVC and Polyurethane bed linens which are water and oil proof that can be used for slippery or messy sex.

Why Use A Sex Toy?

情趣玩具 is: why do people use a masturbator? 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) plus some can provide experiences extremely hard 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 an idea of everything you might like, try among the simpler vibrators first. Almost certainly you will enjoy the experience and then begin to wonder what other delights can be found with more sophisticated vibrators along with other sex toys …