Sex toy
This particular type of safety toughened glass is non-toxic and will withstand extreme temperatures as well as physical shock without compromising its structural integrity.
"[18][19] The first dildos were made of stone, tar, wood, bone, ivory, limestone, teeth,[20] and other materials that could be shaped as penises and that were firm enough to be used as penetrative sex toys.
Scientists believe that a 20-centimeter siltstone phallus from the Upper Palaeolithic period 30,000 years ago, found in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm, Germany, may have been used as a dildo.
In medieval times, a plant called the "cantonese groin" was soaked in hot water to enlarge and harden for women to use as dildos.
[32] Hallie Lieberman's more plausible historical account is that American vibrator companies started targeting household appliance and electrotherapeutic device markets in the early 1900s.
It was advertised overtly as a tool to relax, assist with labor in the home, and a general medical cure-all, but coded language and imagery hinted at its potential sexual uses as well.
[33] In the late 1960s, sex-positive second-wave feminist Betty Dodson organized group mastrubation workshops in New York City, encouraging women to become more independent sexually.
[34] Inspired by her workshops, Dell Williams launched “Eve’s Garden” in the same city, which marked history as the first feminist sex toy shop in the US.
Herodas' short comic play, Mime VI, written in the 3rd century BCE, is about a woman called Metro, anxious to discover from a friend where she recently acquired a dildo.
The Talmud's Avodah Zarah Tractate records the interpretation which Rav Yosef bar Hiyya gave to the Biblical reference of King Asa of Judah having "deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as Queen Mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah.
According to Rav Yosef, Maakah had installed "the likeness of a male organ" on her Asherah image "and she would engage in sexual activity with it daily".
[40] In 1673, the parliament of the United-Kingdom refused the marriage between the presumed heir of the throne, James of York, and the Catholic Maria d'Este of Modena.
[44] In the epilogue to The Mistaken Husband (1674), by John Dryden, an actress complains: Many other works of bawdy and satirical English literature of the period deal with the subject.
Dildoides: A Burlesque Poem (London, 1706), attributed to Samuel Butler, is a mock lament to a collection of dildos that had been seized and publicly burnt by the authorities.
[45] In 1746, Henry Fielding wrote The Female Husband: or the surprising history of Mrs Mary, alias Mr. George Hamilton, in which a woman posing as a man uses a dildo.
[46] Dildos are obliquely referred to in Saul Bellow's novel The Adventures of Augie March (1953): "he had brought me along to a bachelor's stag where two naked acrobatic girls did stunts with false tools".
The sex toys are sold as novelty items so they do not need to adhere to certain regulations such as reporting the chemicals and materials used in a product.
A 2006 study conducted by the Greenpeace Netherlands office found high level of phthalates in seven out of eight plastic sex toys tested.
[55] With the rise of smart sex toys, so did concerns surrounding unwanted tracking or hacking that could occur due to database and API issues.
[56] In 2016, the security software company Trend Micro demonstrated that some Internet-connected electronic sex toys are vulnerable to cyberattacks,[57] thus creating the field of onion dildonics.
She warns that sex toys are just as vulnerable to malware as any other device, so manufacturers and companies should be more transparent about their data collection policies in order to protect users.
Porous sex toys (ridged, flexible, soft and squishy) are difficult to clean and can hide bacteria that multiply and harm the human body.
Besides sex toys, any book, pamphlet, paper, writing, drawing, painting, representation, figure or any other object, is also considered obscene by section 292 if it is lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest.
[62][63] In Japan, many dildos are created to resemble animals or cartoon characters, such as Hello Kitty, rabbits or dolphins, so that they may be sold as toys, thus avoiding obscenity laws.
[67] Until recently, many Southern and some Great Plains states banned the sale of sex toys completely, either directly or through laws regulating "obscene devices".
"[71] A portion of the "censorship and entertainments control" law in Zimbabwe illegalizes the possession and importation of sex toys, because they are considered "obscene" or "indecent", and harmful to public morals.
[72] Being in possession of a sex toy or other prohibited and indecent material can result in a fine (maximum level 6 or US$300[73]) and/or imprisonment not exceeding one year.
[79] The rise of online shopping/retailers contributed to the rapid growth of the sex toy industry, making them easy and discreet to buy.
[33] Sex toys have been the subject of scientific research in different disciplines (e.g., medicine, clinical psychology, sexology, queer studies) for decades.
[95][96][97] Further positive effects are reported from clinical settings: Sex toys are used therapeutically, for example, in the context of therapy for orgasm disorders.
