As for cleaning I use only silicone toys cause they are easy to clean, first with soap then you can put them in boiling water to kill any germs.

Edited by - joey starr on 11/22/2005 5:52:46 AM

[Link]

See, maybe if you give your toys a nice, cozy home you won't want to throw them away anymore!

*Okay, maybe it wouldn't work for those big "XXX Pornstar's Pussy and Ass Combo" toys, but it should fit a Fleshlight or Utamaro.

Edited by - Ivory on 11/22/2005 1:52:43 PM

[Link]

Personally I don't buy anything that can't be put through the dishwasher. It's the best way to sterilize your toys.

For germ freaks, the best thing is pyrex/glass. I personally don't care for glass in the ass--it's too hard, but it does come clean simply with soap and water, being that it's completely non-porous.

Getting past the mental block. Hmmm. If you don't have a problem with germs in your daily life (i.e. doorknobs, tableware at restaurants) there's no reason to have it with sex toys. The human body is very robust, and if you take rudimentary precautions to clean your toys, you won't get sick. If you do have a hang-up about germs overall, you'll need some therapy to get over it. It's a very common phobia and even the most inexperienced psychologist knows how to treat it.

Me? I store my toys next to my bed in my nightstand. I have them all in a plastic container, along with my favorite lube. I figure if my teenage kids sneak through the drawers in my bedroom, they deserve to be warped. Serves the little sneaks right.

[Link]

I think we are increasing the fear of germs here.

[Link]

In our case, toys enhance things quite often. If I'm tired, they can take the place of me while I recover or want to hold off on the finale for a while. On the receiving end, they can provide that unexpected jolt that sends me to a level above the usual.

Either way they are nothing to be ashamed of, but rather something to work on getting the full benefit out of.

RT

[Link]

i haven't had any problems thus far.

[Link]

Easier said than done, but try telling yourself it's just masturbation. If you're not embarassed about looking at magazines or videos or reading passages in books or whatever, it shouldn't be much of a leap, really. Try and just shrug it off as sex play.

As for throwing the toy out, try this. Get a box or something to keep the toy in. Something discrete. Find a place to put it where you know it won't attract attention. It doesn't have to stand up to an FBI search, it just has to go unnoticed in your routine life.

Promise yourself that if you use the toy, no matter what happens, it'll go back into the box and back into its place for a cooling off period. Pick a period of time that will allow you to get past the guilt until you can think objectively again. Maybe it's a week. Promise yourself you won't throw it out for a week. At the end of that cooling-off period, then you can revisit whether you really want to throw it out or not.

The key is not to let yourself do dumb things in the heat of the moment, or in the depth of guilt or depression.

Another alternative: hump a banana or a nice melon. You'd throw that away when you were done with it anyway...

[Link]

Elsewhere, the cooling-off rule has saved me from a lot of regrettable situations where I might have said or done something in the heat the moment that I'd regret later. Works for sex toys, emails, personal correspondence, the last of the coffee consumed and not replenished--you name it.

[Link]