The variety of adult toys is surprising. Sex toys change from purely male or purely female sex toys to toys that can be used by both sexes. There are also 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 provide a different feel to ‘normal’ sex. Other sex toys provide an ‘environment’ for variations in sex, for instance so called orgy bed linens. Sometimes they are used to greatly help a person who has difficulty with unaided sex to accomplish sexual satisfaction. However most adult toys provide a new way to directly stimulate the female or male 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 sex toy 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 utilized 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 small electric motor. Sometimes the battery power and controller are external and linked to the vibrator by 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 into a small circular movement which 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 the strength and rate of vibration effects how stimulating you find the sex toy. The very best effect may not be as strong so when 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.

sagami will have different characteristics and you may well find you like one combination much 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 only 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 for example 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 which makes the masturbator continually change its shape which provides a sort of rotational movement or makes it move back and forth. The back and forth movements are sometimes 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 and 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 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 to 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 variety 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 may give a man’s partner greater sensations during penetration.

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

You can find PVC and Polyurethane bed sheets that 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, apart from therapeutic uses (eg erection assistance), sex toys can drive the imagination (being taken by way of a machine), provide variety (new ways 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 sex toys and electro-stimulation).

Where To Start

When you have not tried a masturbator before and don’t yet have a good idea of everything you might like, try one of many simpler vibrators first. Almost certainly you will benefit from the experience and then start to wonder what other delights can be found with more sophisticated vibrators along with other sex toys …