Sex Toy Dependency: Do You Still DIY?
Everybody is in such a hurry these days. Work, home, chores, kids. And masturbation.
Yeah, you heard that right. Masturbation.
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Remember the old days, if you're over the age of 30, when you masturbated without the aid of electronic devices. No battery-operated, multi-speed toys back then.
Today you can get all kinds of sex toys to help you masturbate: varied shapes, sizes, and materials. And I'm not knocking their use. I use them. A lot.
But all these fancy schmancy toys are making us lazy masturbators. Some of them can give you an orgasm in under a few minutes. Whew.
And sometimes that's what you want and need. A quick release can decrease your stress level and give you that post-orgasm glow. But sometimes masturbation should be a relaxing gift that you give to yourself, using only yourself. Celebrated in the ambiance of a warm bath or under the covers preceding an afternoon nap.
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I've heard of families instituting a No Electronics day in their homes. Where family members have to turn off the TV and computer and read an actual book instead of using a Kindle or some other electronic reader.
I'm going to institute that in my own home, a monthly No Electronic Sex Toy day, just for myself.
Anybody care to join me? And no, I don't mean join me in my bathtub but join my call to a day of old-fashioned masturbation. A hand, a finger, a fantasy that exists only in your own head.
It'll be sexy and oh so retro. But just for a day a month. I'd miss my Rabbit vibrator too much and all of its friends that live on the top shelf of my closet.
Do you make time for doing things the old-fashioned way?
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Written by Jennifer Cullen for CafeMom's blog, The Stir.
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