More useful sex toy information

If you have made it this far into the Whet Erotic Emporium online store you are obviously curious about sex toys but you still probably have lots of questions about sex toys and choosing the best sex toy to fulfil your personal needs. Sex toys have been around for thousands of years and some sex toys are little more than novelty gadget while other sex toys are carefully and scientifically designed to satisfy and work with rather than in spite of our bodies.

The number one reason for buying any sex toy is for the almost certain intense and often "instant" gratification that sex toys can offer. There is such a huge choice available that you can certainly find a sex toy to satisfy all your whims and needs. While using a sex toy won't as Lisa Sussman in her book Sex Toys frankly admits "keep you in a perpetual "whoo-hoo" mode, they do put many woman who has had trouble climaxing in the past on the inside of the big bang track ".

And as she goes on to add- and we fully agree- sex toys are empowering! Sex toys tell the world "you are in charge of your own pleasure" and rather than sitting around twiddling your thumbs, or another part of your anatomy, waiting for the man or woman of your dreams to figure out how to satisfy you, you are using your own "thumbs to control the on-off switch of your sex toy and sending yourself into paroxysms of ecstasy.

Sex toy quick facts

  • It appears too that many women have already discovered this fact and apparently, sex toys 'r' us. Conservatively around 20% of women use a vibrator (or another sex toy) while masturbating and the number is no doubt steadily increasing.
  • 30% of strap- on sales are to couples
  • Anne Summers purveyors of sex toys and underwear in the UK has seen its sale rise by 65% over the last few years. Buying a sex toy has become no more risqué than buying a litre of milk.

Fortunately sex toys have also come a long way since the early hand-mixer shaped models that were advertised in journals including Needlecraft, Home Needlework Journal and Woman's Home Companion, and even sold in the Sears & Roebuck catalogue and which quite frankly looked like they could mince your clitoris into a pulp and made more noise than a Jet engine. 

Marketed to women as health and relaxation aids, vibrator advertising copy was filled with double-entendres, for example, "all the pleasure of youth ... will throb within you." They were advertised in many consumer magazines, an "aid every woman appreciates."



Today's sex toy shopper has a vast array of discreet, easy to use sex toys to choose from alone or with a partner and many have adjustable controls so you can vibrate but escalate the vibration, pulsate or pulsate and escalate or any combination of the above. So are so small and discreet they can be mistaken for a dental floss container.

On the pages of the Whet erotic emporium you will find an extensive range or high tech, well-made sex toys with models to suit every occasion from getting a non-alcoholic buzz at the end of year office party to making more than waves in your local tide-pool or if you are still a little shy, your own bath tub. Before we go remember Lisa's mantra

"She who dies with the most toys wins!"

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