Who Designs Sex Toys Anyway?
“Have you seen these things? More often than not, they’re an emetic purple and bring to mind nothing so much as a deformed limb. And that’s if you’re lucky. Increasingly, sex-toy production seems to be under the influence of some kind of paraphiliac dadaism. Take the Mr Craby (sic) Strap-On. Never mind that it’s bright orange, looks like a cross between a cartoon crustacean and a Space Invader, and has a ‘cute pincer design.’ The really chilling thing is, IT’S GOT EYES. Listen to me — THEY’VE DRAWN EYES ON IT. Why would you feel compelled to paint eyes on something you’re going to attach to your genitals? These sex toys are the grotesque, misshapen offspring of the most repellently cutesy instincts of a seven-year-old girl and impatient porno consumerism…” —Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
If you step back and take a fresh look at sex toys — particularly dildos — it’s hard not to agree that they depict a rather weird world. Commercially produced dildos usually fall into one of three categories: weird inventions that look like extraterrestrial crustaceans in a low-budget sci-fi movie; sleek synthetic abstractions that make you think you’re jerking off with a minimalist sculpture; and exaggerations of “normal” human anatomy, like impossibly huge penises lined with veins the size of chicken fingers. If any of these things were attached to the body of a living person, you’d probably think twice before pushing it into your orifice of choice. But since it’s detached, it seems ok, or even appealing — maybe because this gives you control over it. It’s one thing to penetrate yourself with an extraterrestrial crustacean. It’s another thing to let somebody else do it.
Who designs these things, anyway? An article at Toys in Babeland claims that “women are at the forefront of revolutionary changes in the sex toy industry” and profiles some of the more prominent makers of sex toys. It’s a pretty interesting read that dovetails with another point made by the story in the Mail & Guardian — which is that, if you consider the conjunction of sex and gadgets, you’d generally be inclined to think it must be a male field. Aren’t men tech-happy? Aren’t women supposed to be more interested in the holistic and the organic? Well, you can’t consider sex toys without drawing the opposite conclusion. Women are the vanguard of sex toy makers and probably sex toy users too. “For the situation to make sense,” the Mail & Guardian writes, “we must conclude that men need a subtle and sensitive sexual experience, while women are happy with a mechanical, perfunctory one.” Not necessarily. Who’s to say that men can’t have perfunctory sexual experiences with fleshly beings? And that women can’t have “subtle and sensitive” experiences with gizmos that resemble alien lobsters?
Being somewhat familiar with Mil Millington’s writing, I’d guess that that statement – “For the situation to make sense,†the Mail & Guardian writes, “we must conclude that men need a subtle and sensitive sexual experience, while women are happy with a mechanical, perfunctory one” is sarcastic.
Men are much more stimulated by sexual imagery than women (although women are affected by pornographic imagery more than they think)
Therefore, a sex toy that looks like a highly realistic veined penis is only good for use as a strap on toy for your girlfriend or underendowed/impotent/exhausted boyfriend.
When a woman is alone, she doesn’t want a dildo that looks like a chopped off dick, she wants a discreet, easy to clean, effective device that gets her off at the intensity she likes it.
To put it another way: When a woman is missing her mans cuddles, she might get wrapped up in his favourite big fluffy jumper. She wouldn’t want a lifesize cold rubber mans chest to hug.
Personally, I wouldn’t like anything “cutesy” in any adorable design involving bunnies or ducklings or kittens. They’re for petting, not inserting!
“Who’s to say that men can’t have perfunctory sexual experiences with fleshly beings? And that women can’t have “subtle and sensitive†experiences with gizmos that resemble alien lobsters?”
Occam’s razor, perhaps? No need to complicate this stuff any more than you need to. It’s damn difficult anyway.
How is this for the ultimate sex toy? An article on PleasureMeNow.com shows how surgeons grew a penis to a man’s arm. Unfortunetely, they returned it to his groin.
Check out the photo: https://www.pleasuremenow.com/penisoperation.html
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