The variety of adult toys is surprising. Sex toys change from purely male or purely female sex 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 Purpose Of Sex Toys

Some adult toys aid the man’s erection, stimulate the female genitals to are more sensitive or provide a different feel to ‘normal’ sex. Other adult toys offer an ‘environment’ for variations in sex, for example so called orgy bed linens. Sometimes they are used to help someone who has difficulty with unaided sex to accomplish sexual satisfaction. However most adult toys provide a new solution 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. Additionally, it may 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 obtain orgasm through only the stimulation provided by the sex toy.

Types of Sex Toys

Vibrating Sex Toys

Probably the most well known adult toys are ‘vibrators’ which, because 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 portion 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 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 mounted on 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, 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 best effect will not be as strong and as fast as you possibly can. The optimum settings may change as your amount of excitement builds. To get the best results it is worth buying a vibrator which is controllable.

Different vibrators will have different characteristics and you’ll well find you prefer one combination much more than another and your preference may even vary depending 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 let you 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 that makes the masturbator continually change its shape which gives sort of rotational movement or helps it be move back and forth. The back 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 give a man a ‘blow job’.

On a bigger scale and many more expensive, you can find ‘sex machines’ that incorporate thrusting and vibrating dildos.

Combination Sex Toys

So far we have covered vibrating, moving and thrusting adult toys. As you may have guessed they are all offered in a bewildering selection 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 to their surfaces; a dildo or vibrator may 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 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. You can find penis extenders and thickeners which might provide a man’s partner greater sensations during penetration.

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

There are PVC and Polyurethane bed linens 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), 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) and some can provide experiences not possible 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 a good idea of what 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 …