archeologia: Sex toy

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A sex toy is an object or device that is primarily used to facilitate sexual pleasure, such as a dildo, artificial vagina or vibrator. Many popular sex toys are designed to resemble human genitals, and may be vibrating or non-vibrating. The term sex toy can also include BDSM apparatus and sex furniture such as sex swings; however, it is not applied to items such as birth control, pornography, or condoms. Alternative terms for sex toy include adult toy and the dated euphemism marital aid. Marital aid also has a broader meaning and is applied to aphrodisiac drugs and herbs marketed to enhance or prolong sex. Sex toys are most commonly sold at sex shops or through online shopping, but they may…

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Paraphilic infantilism, also known as adult baby (or "AB", for short), is a form of ageplay that involves role-playing a regression to an infant-like state. Like other forms of adult play, depending on the context and desires of the people involved, paraphilic infantilism may be expressed as a non-sexual fetish, kink, or simply as a comforting platonic activity. People who practice adult baby play are often colloquially referred to (by themselves and others) as "adult babies", or "ABs". Behaviors vary, but may include things such as wearing and using diapers, drinking from a baby bottle or sucking on a pacifier, and (when done with others) engaging in gentle, nostalgic and nurturing experie…

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BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics. Given the wide range of practices, some of which may be engaged in by people who do not consider themselves to be practising BDSM, inclusion in the BDSM community or subculture often is said to depend on self-identification and shared experience. The initialism BDSM is first recorded in a Usenet post from 1991, and is interpreted as a combination of the abbreviations B/D (Bondage and Discipline), D/s (Dominance and submission), and S/M (Sadism and Masochism). BDSM is used as a catch-all phrase covering a wide range of ac…

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The sex industry, also called the sex trade, consists of businesses that either directly or indirectly provide sex-related products and services or adult entertainment. The industry includes activities involving direct provision of sex-related services, such as prostitution, strip clubs, host and hostess clubs, and sex-related pastimes, such as pornography, adult magazines, sex movies, sex toys, and fetish or BDSM paraphernalia. Sex channels for television and pre-paid sex movies for video on demand, are part of the sex industry, as are adult movie theaters, sex shops, peep shows, and strip clubs. The sex industry employs millions of people worldwide, mainly women. These range from the sex…

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Good Vibrations: A Content Analysis of Depictions of Sex Toy Use in Mainstream Heterosexual Pornography. Recent rapid advances and diffuse uptake of technology have increased accessibility of forms of technology designed to enhance sexual experiences. Analysis of depictions of sex toy use in pornography provides a means of estimating whether such “sextech” have been integrated into the sexual norms of the viewing population. This study aimed to investigate how sex toys are depicted in mainstream, heterosexual, online pornography. Heterosexual pornographic videos featuring sex toys (N = 100) from two highly popular sites, were content coded based on a formal coding process developed to captu…