To cringe at the term "sex toys"?

[FortunesFave]

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?

Do you feel the same way, OP, about dog toys and cat toys? Don't you find that hideous as toys are purely for the enjoyment of human children?

@Viviennemary

I agree its vile. Debases relationships. No better than porn.

Brilliant, just brilliant Surely nobody is this tightly wound 😂

I think you need some sex toys and a bit of pleasure to calm you down

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

^This. I'm getting a bit fed up with over-sensitive policing of people's use of perfectly normal language on spurious grounds. The word 'toy' does not have to be associated with children. Calling a sex toy a sex toy does not affect children in any way whatsoever. People are just looking for things to be offended or shocked by.

@Bipbopboo66

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

Toys make it sound infantile.

No, it's made to sound fun. I wouldn't buy a "sex aid", most people would assume that's viagra or some kind of prying device.

Good grief.....just when I thought it couldn't get get anymore 1950's pearl clenchy on here I was again proven wrong

Adults use the word "toy" to describe some sport equipment, a fun car, a gun...

You have to be a complete weirdo to immediately think about children.

What's wrong with 'pleasure spanner'

@Viviennemary

I agree its vile. Debases relationships. No better than porn.

You think any of the following things 'debases relationships'....?

1. A woman having her first ever orgasm (finally!) thanks to a sex toy, enabling her to learn how to have a more fulfilling sex life with (or without!) her partner

1. A married couple uses a toy to enhance the pleasure both of them get from their sex life

....? Batshit.

(Also, sex toys don't need to have some kind of relationship-boosting equality to be fine and not "vile" - having a quick go on your bullet vibe is not going to bring down the institution of marriage. But that's some extremely sexually repressed thinking, to assume that anything that brings pleasure is bad for a relationship...???)

*quality, not equality. Oops

(Although, while I'm on my high horse, vibrators can help narrow the orgasm gap that exists in hetero relationships so yes, equality is a part of it too!)

Agree.
What's wrong with vibrator? Or Dildo? Or whatever.

@User018475022

Agree. What's wrong with vibrator? Or Dildo? Or whatever.

Because there’s lots of different types of sex toys and there needs to be a name to encompass them all.

If you think there’s just vibrators and dildos you need to explore more

@Viviennemary

I agree its vile. Debases relationships. No better than porn.

How does it debase relationships exactly? Can you talk me through that please?

How about ‘sex tools’?

I agree with you OP, I hate the phrase but I think that’s because it makes me think of a creepy man I was involved with for a while who had a shoe fetish and was also very interested in sex toys. Except he just called them ‘toys’. ‘How about using a toy?’

And the word ‘toy’ by itself DID make me think of children’s toys. Like he was suggesting I put a teddy bear up there.

🤢

Sex Tools just sound a bit terrifying..

Although I don't know what we are discussing this for anyway, sexual intercourse should only be tolerated for the purposes of procreation.

Are you serious? It's hard to tell sometimes on here.

How about ‘sex tools’?

Doesn’t that sound rather…industrial? Although I suppose it brings new meaning to ‘screw head’

What's wrong with 'pleasure spanner'

No wrenching, please

In fact, there should be be enjoying yourself whatsoever, to go by some posters here. On the times when sex is strictly necessary, full flagellation should clearly follow in order to purge your soul.

no enjoying

My kingdom for an edit button…

@SquirryTheSquirrel

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.

Yes, also it assumes that all people are married!

How about:

coitus enhancers

@CircleofWillis

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.

I obviously should have added some sort of tone signifier to my comment. How about or maybe an "I" to indicate "irony"?

Marital aids?! It's not the 1950s 😂

What about ‘Bedroom Unpleasantness Hurry-Alongers’?

@Viviennemary

I agree its vile. Debases relationships. No better than porn.

😳

Coitus components ?

*And why Marital aids?f
So single people can't use them? confused

Am now imagining that when the postie delivers the plain brown package you have to show ID and Marriage License before the package is handed over

In Germany there is a sex toy company (Amerolie I think?) and the only reason I've heard of them is because they have loads of ads on TV (not after a watershed on Sky) which makes sex (not just young hetero sex, either) look like a lot of fun.

And not forgetting being with Student DD last November at the checkout for a supermarket and seeing a pile of Advent calenders, picking one up and asking her if we should get one for grandma.
mortufied expression "put it down mum, it's sex toys"...