Christian Sex Toys

[Annie]

@Voyager

It’s not the sex people are laughing about - it is praying about which dildo to stock.

I’m laughing at the Like a Virgin tightening gel.

[Voyager]

@Dangerosa

I have a friend who owns a chain of sex toy shops. I find nothing wrong or weird about Christians wanting to spice up their marriage. She gets all types in her shop.

Thinking it funny doesn’t mean I’m against it. I’m all for this stuff being sold all over, because it might help people have better sex lives.

You might not be old enough to remember “The Total Woman” written by an evangelical, I believe. That is the book that recommended a wife greet her husband at the door wrapped in Saran Wrap. I’ve never read it, but I don’t remember the news stories mentioning praying at this point.

[chowder]

@Oslo Ostragoth

About once a week, the SDMB reveals to me something I wouldn’t have thought possible… :eek:

Yep, me to.

You just gotta love the SDMB

[WF_Tomba]

@Duck Duck Goose

I just don’t know what to think. You can’t have a lifelike dildo in bed with you–because it would constitute adultery?? But a halfsize lime-green one doesn’t count?

And they don’t sell butt plugs–but they don’t seem aware, or care, that you can use any vibrator as anal stimulation?

Well, it often seems to me that people use religious standards to justify matters of taste–conservative people don’t want sex toys that seem “gross” or “dirty”.

So she knows that she’s in the sex industry–but she feels she’s somehow witnessing through it. And the fact that she’s participating in an industry that also sells toys for gay bondage doesn’t seem to faze her.

The mind boggles.

Eh, it seems to me that you are ridiculing the devout for not being fanatical enough. All major industries probably engage in some business that is out of line with conservative Christian morality; I don’t think conservative Christians are therefore hypocrites for “participating” in these industries indirectly. I’m not religious at all, but I’d be a hermit if I refused to do business with anyone who had ever sold a product I disapproved of.

[chowder]

@CaerieD

Obviously, they feel the hand of God.

In their pants.

::cue hymn::

#What a friend I have in Jesus…#

[Beware_of_Doug]

@dangermom

I know people who love to buy from Orthodox clothing websites because they like long skirts.

I know a gal who basically lives a 1930s lifestyle who gets her hosiery from places like that. (FTOY who never saw great-grandma in anything but pantsuits, it’s gartered, seamed up the back, and pret’near bulletproof. She likes it 'cause it’s not all fetishy… :dubious: uh…er… :rolleyes: )

[chowder]

[QUOTE=CaerieD]
Obviously, they feel the hand of God.
Oh God! Oh God!Oh God!Ooooohhh Goddddddd!!!

[Millit_the_Frail]

@Voyager

You might not be old enough to remember “The Total Woman” written by an evangelical, I believe. That is the book that recommended a wife greet her husband at the door wrapped in Saran Wrap. I’ve never read it, but I don’t remember the news stories mentioning praying at this point.

OK, I just have to ask–who gets turned on by a woman dressed like a leftover?!

The part of the site that is most bewildering to me is the “about” section:

@Book22

It is our company’s policy that the products we sell be purchased for married couples only. …[snip]…We want to encourage God’s plan for people to remain sexually pure, that is why we offer our products to married couples only.

They offer their products to married couples only? Um, this is the Internet, baby. You’re offering your products to whomever is willing to buy. There’s no way of knowing whether those dildoes you’re hawking are going to the home of a Christian married couple, an unmarried teenage couple, a gay couple, a 16-year-old girl having fun with herself in her own bedroom, or anyone else. How can they ensure compliance to their “company policy?”

[appleciders]

Oh, I don’t know. I can definitely see the niche for an adult store that doesn’t have boarded up windows, red neon signs out front, and sleazy people with sticky hands hanging around. Personally, I’d feel more at ease in this store than in a normal adult store, as long as I wasn’t being witnessed to or handed pamphlets. I might not actually shop there because I’d wonder what kind of charitable donations the store might be making, but the basic idea is something I could go for.

[Dangerosa]

@appleciders

Oh, I don’t know. I can definitely see the niche for an adult store that doesn’t have boarded up windows, red neon signs out front, and sleazy people with sticky hands hanging around. Personally, I’d feel more at ease in this store than in a normal adult store, as long as I wasn’t being witnessed to or handed pamphlets. I might not actually shop there because I’d wonder what kind of charitable donations the store might be making, but the basic idea is something I could go for.

That’s sort of the niche that my friend of a friend’s business has.

My friends business has the front of the store set up as a gift shop - tittie candles and 40th birthday party jokes. Things for bachelor and bachelorette parties. Relatively “comfortable” in a Spencer’s Gifts tasteless crap sort of way. The further you move back in the store, the more the “average” person will be challenged by the merchandise selection.

So neither business is the “quarter in the slot for a peep show” or a “God, you don’t want to TOUCH those magazines” sort of boarded up window sort of way.