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imo its because male sex toys tend to look like actual vaginas for a fake sex experience whereas female sex toys tend to look like solid color silicon toy for a
by spywaregorilla 5y ago
imo its because male sex toys tend to look like actual vaginas for a fake sex experience whereas female sex toys tend to look like solid color silicon toy for a tactile experience. Yes, there are female toys that look like big veiny skin toned dicks and there are male toys that are just silicon whatevers, but they're not the common mental image.
If you browse a male sex toy store you're likely to see a lot of stuff which is advertised as actual 1:1 replicas of specific porn stars' orifices. A lot of it has a pretty pathetic, creepy vibe for me. But a good share seems as normal as female vibrators.
- foldr 5y agoThe marketing is weird, but I’d imagine that a lot of the guys buying them don’t really care how much the toy resembles some porn star’s vagina. I think the stigma goes a bit deeper than that.
- ethbr0 5y agoI think it's what happens when you have a sex toy marketing department, in a largely commoditized product segment, where the majority of product is a branded Chinese clone. "What makes ours different?"
- spywaregorilla 5y agoMaybe, but the fake vagina in general is just gross looking and conveys perversion. The stigma is that you come off as a pervert. That's pretty much it from my perspective. It would be weirder to find a skin toned realistic dick dildo in a woman's room than it would be to find a silicon vibrator ring or wand or tube in a man's room.
- vmception 5y agoyeah I'm going to say "so what" to that, even if that was 100% of the market and an accurate mental image.
- spywaregorilla 5y agoAppearing gross and perverted to most people is the so what. You can acknowledge that even if you're totally sex positive.
- Karawebnetwork 5y ago> as actual 1:1 replicas of specific porn stars' orifices Note that the opposite exist where you can get phalluses signed and molded after porn stars.
- spywaregorilla 5y agoI'm not surprised, but I think most people would find that concept equally off putting.