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Sex toy

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A sex toy is any thing used mainly for facilitating human sexual pleasure.

The term can also be taken to include BDSM apparatus. The term usually does not include contraceptives, pornography, or condoms.

The term marital aid is often used as a euphemism for sex toys, although that term is also sometimes applied to drugs and herbs marketed as supposedly enhancing or prolonging sex.

Table of contents
1 Legal Issues
2 Types of Sex Toys
3 Various flesh-like materials used in sex toys
4 References and further reading
5 External links

Legal Issues

In many areas, such as some U.S. Southern states, the sale of sex toys is either regulated or prohibited, though enforcement is often rare. Nonetheless the laws are on the books and these laws prohibiting or regulating "obscene devices" occasionally take center stage. As recently as 1999, an assitant attorney general in Alabama commenting on a case involving sex toys and discussing to what end the devices are used for was quoted as saying there is no "fundamental right for a person to buy a device to produce orgasm". It is also common practice for someone to move a motor home near a proposed sex shop as a means of protest to prevent the shop from opening where the law prohibits an "adult" establishment within a certain distance of a dwelling.

Types of Sex Toys

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A sex toy

See also: teledildonics, Realdoll, Sexual intercourse, masturbation

Various flesh-like materials used in sex toys

; silicone : soft and lifelike, warms up quickly to body temperature, non-porous therefore easy to clean (with mild soap and water, or boiled for sterilization) ; Cyberskin / Ultraskin / Eroskin / Softskin / Cyber Jel-lee / Futurotic : relatively new material (currently the closest emulation of real skin), made of silicone and plastic, very porous therefore must be cleaned very thoroughly (with Cyberskin cleaning solution or antibacterial soap and water) ; jelly : cheaper, rubber-based material, quite porous ; latex rubber : cheaper, very porous, might be allergenic

References and further reading

External links