To cringe at the term "sex toys"?

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I hate the 'toy' aspect of it. Toys are for children. Sex is for adults.

the old fashioned term used to be sex aids....which is awful sounding too but sex toys has become the general term these days.

AIBU?

I agree! I think we should go back to calling them 'marital aids'. Far less cringy and that term ensures that people don't try to have fun with them.

Let's call them under the cover adult shudderers. Grown ups can't possibly have toys. Won't someone think of the the children?!

I'm with you op.

Adults should not be associated with toys or playing or having fun at all

I agree. Bloody gross

I don't know why there is a demand for them. Lights off, lie on your back and think of England, twice a year, surely?

Toys are for children.

And men.

The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

@Brefugee

I don't know why there is a demand for them. Lights off, lie on your back and think of England, twice a year, surely?

Haha brilliant

I don’t like it either ....it’s too Benny Hill

This is on the same forum that has a link near the top called "Best sex toys for women"!

@TrickorTreacle

This is on the same forum that has a link near the top called "Best sex toys for women"!

Yes it was that which reminded me of my hate for the term!

I'm not saying adults can't enjoy toys...I like playing games myself! But associating the innocent fun of toys with sex is just a bit blech to me.

I think they should be banned entirely, sex shouldn’t be playful or fun.

Sex aids.
As in an aid to sex, alone or with a partner.

Toys make it sound infantile.

Fuck me some of you have way to much time on your hands

I'm sure MN will come up with some
hilarious appropriate new names.
Yanbu.

Posted to soon!!!. Way to much time on your hands to come up with new things that make you cringe.

A sex aid sounds like a medical device!

@psychomath yes! Like if you can’t have sex this aid will help

I'm not into them but I don't see anything wrong with calling them 'toys'. 'Marital aids' or 'sex aids' sounds like something a 1950s doctor would prescribe to a very earnest couple.

If your getting rid of sex toy in favour of sex aid then foreplay will have to go too.
I propose Foreduty as an alternative.

Sex aids just sounds a bit medical to me.

How about “sex enhancers”? Not that I have any issue with calling them toys.

Sex aids - awful. The word ‘aids’ doesn’t exactly have good connotations when it comes to sex. Sounds like something you might get in those catalogues selling home modifications to the elderly.

Sex devices - weird, sounds robotic, connotations of torture, not into it.

Sex toys - fine, doesn’t make me think of children because I am not a weirdo.

BUT CONSIDER…

Sex Doodlewhackers - sexy, intimate, erotic. No negative connotations. Imagine Christian Grey purring this in your ear. It’s irresistible, right?

Extra boak when an adult describes sex as 'play' in addition to the toys

I just call them by their names. Godzilla the huge dildo. Merlin the mini wand. Etc.

@TeachesOfPeaches

Extra boak when an adult describes sex as 'play' in addition to the toys

What? Like foreplay?

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