The variety of adult toys is surprising. Sex toys vary from purely male or purely female adult toys to toys that can be used by both sexes. There are also tenga that may also be classified as sex aids or marital aids.
The Purpose Of Sex Toys
Some adult toys aid the man’s erection, stimulate the female genitals to become more sensitive or give a different feel to ‘normal’ sex. Other adult toys offer an ‘environment’ for variations in sex, for example so called orgy bed sheets. Sometimes they are used to greatly help somebody who has difficulty with unaided sex to attain sexual satisfaction. However most sex toys provide a new way to directly stimulate the male or female genitals to attain sexual satisfaction.
Using sex toys can provide new experiences and variation in the sexual experience. It can also provide a fantasy element for enhancing or revitalising a relationship.
The usual expectation is a masturbator provides direct stimulation of the genitals in foreplay and/or during sexual intercourse 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 area of the female body or that of a man’s.
The simplest of the are pencil or wand shaped (though normally thicker when compared to a pencil). They often have an interior battery (or two) which powers a little electric motor. Sometimes the battery power and controller are external and connected to the vibrator by a wire. This motor is fitted with a small, out of balance, weight attached to the shaft. As this weight rotates it throws the motor and vibrator into a small circular movement which 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 strength and rate of vibration effects how stimulating you discover the sex toy. The very best effect might not be as strong so when fast as you possibly can. The optimum settings may change as your degree of excitement builds. To get the best results it is worth buying a vibrator which is controllable.
Different vibrators could have different characteristics and you’ll well find you like one combination a lot more than another and your preference may even vary based on which part of your system 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 quite 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 provide mechanical stimulation. These usually be determined by a motor which makes the masturbator continually change its shape which provides sort of rotational movement or helps it be move back and forth. The trunk and forth movements are occasionally powered by an air pump rather than motor. The movements have already been used to create, for instance, mechanical licking tongues, vibrators that ‘penetrate’ the vagina and mouth simulators to provide a guy a ‘blow job’.
On a bigger scale and many more expensive, there are ‘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 may 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 bottom 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.
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 MASTURBATOR?
A good question is: why do people use a masturbator? Surely fingers, tongues, penises, clitorises and vaginas etc all provide great sexual stimulation and enjoyment.
Well, aside 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 not possible with ‘normal body parts’ (particularly vibrating adult toys and electro-stimulation).
Where To Start
Should you have not tried a sex toy before and don’t yet have an idea of everything you might like, try one of the simpler vibrators first. Most probably 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 …