The variety of adult 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 can 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 are more sensitive or give a different feel to ‘normal’ sex. Other sex toys provide an ‘environment’ for variations in sex, for example so called orgy bed sheets. Sometimes they are used to greatly help someone who has difficulty with unaided sex to attain 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 provide 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 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 sex 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 portion 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 connected to the vibrator by a wire. This motor is fitted with a small, out of balance, weight attached to the shaft. ラブドール As this weight rotates it throws the motor and vibrator right into a small circular movement which causes the vibration you feel.

With a vibrator that has a controller, as the power is increased the speed of the motor increases and with it both the rate and strength of vibration. Both strength and rate of vibration effects how stimulating you find the sex toy. The best effect is probably not as strong and as fast as possible. The optimum settings may 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 could have different characteristics and you may well find you like one combination much more than another as well as your preference may even vary depending on which part of the 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.

Additionally, there are 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 supply mechanical stimulation. These usually depend on a motor that makes the masturbator continually change its shape which provides 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 motor. The movements have been used to create, for example, 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 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 as well.

Many adult 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 rather than provide vibrating or moving stimulation, change the feel of sex.

For instance there are a number of sleeves to put on 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. You can find penis extenders and thickeners which might provide a man’s partner greater sensations during penetration.

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

You can find PVC and Polyurethane bed sheets 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 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), adult toys can drive the imagination (being taken by 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).

Where To Start

For those who have not tried a sex toy before and don’t yet have a good idea of everything you might like, try one of many simpler vibrators first. Most probably 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 …