The devices we use to create erotic and sexual pleasure are an expression of our culture, as much as our cuisine and our music. Food and music occupy a place in our cultural discourse where sex machines fear to tread; people gather at parties to discuss a new restaurant. “Oh, it’s an Indian restaurant? I love navrattan korma!”
Many of the books and lecturers on human sexuality encourage the use of vibrators, but they’re discussed in a way that suggests discomfort on the side of the author or the lecturer. The speaker will mention categories, such as rabbit vibrators, bullet vibrators, and wand vibrators, and probably discuss the safety of various materials. Few of them will go into sensual detail, gushing about the magnificence of an experience, like a food critic might.
And that’s just vibrators. Present for decades in the cultural consciousness, vribrators and dildos are still an uneasy subject for writers and speakers. So what about the joys I explore? What about e-stim? What about suction devices and fucking machines?
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