The variety of sex toys is surprising. Sex toys vary from purely male or purely female adult toys to toys which you can use by both sexes. Additionally, there are some sex toys that may 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 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 help somebody who has difficulty with unaided sex to attain sexual satisfaction. However most adult toys provide a new solution to directly stimulate the female or male genitals to achieve sexual satisfaction.
Using sex toys can offer new experiences and variation in the sexual experience. It can also give 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 supplied by the sex toy.
Types of Sex Toys
Vibrating Sex Toys
Probably the most popular adult toys are ‘vibrators’ which, because 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 section of the female body or that of a man’s.
The simplest of these 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 pack and controller are external and connected 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 which has a controller, as 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 find the sex toy. The best effect may not be 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 investing in a vibrator which is controllable.
Different vibrators will have different characteristics and you may well find you like one combination a lot more than another as well as your preference may even vary based on which part of your body you are stimulating.
More recently electronic vibrator controllers have appeared which provide not only the static control of power/speed but also allow you to select patterns of power pulses and surges. These can be quite effective.
Additionally, there are 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 that makes the sex toy continually change its shape which gives sort of rotational movement or helps it be 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 instance, mechanical licking tongues, vibrators that ‘penetrate’ the vagina and mouth simulators to give a guy a ‘blow job’.
On a bigger scale and much more expensive, there are ‘sex machines’ that incorporate thrusting and vibrating dildos.
Combination Sex Toys
So far we’ve covered vibrating, moving and thrusting adult toys. Because you can have guessed these 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 as well.
Many sex 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 number of sleeves to put over the penis to supply different sensations for both partners while engaged in penetrative sex.
There are 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 may give 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 which you can use for slippery or messy sex.
Why Use A Sex Toy?
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 sex toys and electro-stimulation).
情趣玩具 Where To Start
If you have not tried a sex toy before and don’t yet have an idea of what you might like, try one of the simpler vibrators first. Almost certainly you will benefit from the experience and then start to wonder what other delights are available with more sophisticated vibrators along with other sex toys …
