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Once confined to the domain of seedy sex shops and iffy folks, sex toys are now completely mainstream. Sex toys can easily be bought on line or at in-home sex toy evenings with your chums. Read on and get info on the different kinds of toys available and on the current sex toy trend.

  • Sex toy phenomenon

    The sex toy phenomenon

    Simply in fashion or a real social phenomenon? No one knows if the sex toy wave will last. These days however, taboos are being broken and people unembarassingly show off their ‘toy’ to friends.
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  • Battery-operated sex

    Battery-operated sexual pleasure

    “The use of objects like vibrators or dildos is much more widespread in Northern Europe (Sweden, Norway, Holland and even Germany) and in the United States, than in the south,” according to the sexologist, Marie-Helene Colson.
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  • Sex toy questions

    Sex toys: frequently asked questions

    Vibrators, dildos, inflatable dolls, geisha balls... Perhaps you know of some of these accessories, but do you know exactly what they are? Doctissimo answers some of the most frequently asked sex toy questions.
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  • Pleasure with a dildo

    The dildo: an object of pleasure

    Dildos were probably also been used as fertility symbols by priestesses in the oldest forms of worship. Moses, who wanted to instil the idea of a single god, rejected such practises but, imitating those around them, the first Hebrews quickly returned to them and the prophets admonished them for...
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  • Off to the sex-shop!

    Visited a sex-shop lately?

    Are the days of furtive looks from people sidling down the road, checking that nobody is watching them before entering a sex-shop, long gone?
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