Comments on: Vibrators and dildos

By: Welcome back (or for the first time…)! | Adolescent Sexuality by Dr. Karen Rayne

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:54:25 +0000

[...] So what’s gotten me back writing today? That would be the quote from Huffington Post, it would. Pretty exciting, eh? Huff Po has an article today called “Sex Toys for Tweens” where they quote an old post of mine called Vibratos and Dildos. [...]

By: theRN

theRN — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:56:16 +0000

I think it is extremely important for young ladies to have access to information about masturbation and to vibrators. I spent my high school years feeling very unsatisfied. There should be much more promotion of masturbation, as an alternative to sex before marriage.

By: c4bl3fl4m3

c4bl3fl4m3 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:23:48 +0000

I wish I would have had a dildo when I was a teenager, or someone to ask to get me one. Or, heck, even the knowledge of one. I put all sorts of relatively safe and unsafe things in my vagina to try to get off. (In the end, I found the end of one of those expanding lightsabers was the best. It was long, hard, easy to clean, and could be used in the bathtub.)

I remember my mother finding the round hairbrush I used, the one with the lower bristles pulled out. She said “If you’re using that for what I think you’re using that for, that’s just sick!” I had no way of saying or even the knowledge to say “Yeah, well, if I had a dildo, I wouldn’t have to go looking for things to stick in my cooter!”

By: Margaret Pevec

Margaret Pevec — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:09:26 +0000

Everything’s been said here about your post! Awesome. Of the highest order. Bravo to your teen friend and to you! Wow! Masturbation is about the safest sex a girl can have. I wish we did more to promote it (although a recent read of a sexuality educator who went up against Bill O’Reilly on TV and couldn’t even get him to accept that teaching grade school kids the proper names for human genitals leaves me a bit hopeless about that).

I’m encouraged by Barrack Obama’s stand on LGBT rights and sexuality education and hope, when next January rolls around, we’ll be seeing the awful policies from the Bush administration laid to rest.

By: Mrs. Y

Mrs. Y — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:29:03 +0000

That’s a smart teenager.

By: Barb

Barb — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:19:00 +0000

Ditto what Alice said. I’m sure most parents accept the fact that their teens masturbate but go into shock when a sex aid is mentioned. I’m all for providing anything to my girls that will enhance their pleasure. I’ve never seen it as a big deal. Great post as always.

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:28:21 +0000

Awesome.

Masturbation is awesome, open teen-adult conversations about sex are awesome, encouraging teens to express themselves sexually while not doing anything they aren’t emotionally ready for is awesome.

Just awesome all around. I don’t need convincing!