# Is this the best job ever? A professional sex toy tester. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547 "2014-08-01T02:48:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/1 "2014-08-01T02:48:07Z")
The news is abuzz with excitement. Is this the worlds best job or what? That’s a serious sized toy she’s holding in the top photo. Is that red & white box the battery pack for that big boy? I don’t know what else that could be. > **[Good vibrations: Mom-of-two tests sex toys professionally and loves her job](https://www.nydailynews.com/2014/07/31/good-vibrations-mom-of-two-tests-sex-toys-professionally-and-loves-her-job/)** > > Is this the best job ever? Cara Houiellebe is a professional sex toy tester — and rakes in $25,000 a year having 15 orgasms a WEEK. Cara has an office packed with more than 2,000 raunchy toys… > [@](#): > > Cara Houiellebe is a professional sex toy tester — and rakes in $25,000 a year having 15 orgasms a WEEK. > > Cara has an office packed with more than 2,000 raunchy toys she test drives for adult companies — before being paid to review each one on her blog. > > The mom-of-two, from Lincoln, spends seven hours every week testing the toys in her since she became an erotic blogger five years ago. > > The 33-year-old has sex toys delivered to her door four or five times a week and the toys have now become part of her everyday life. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/2 "2014-08-01T02:52:20Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > That’s a serious sized toy she’s holding in the top photo. Looks like a normal magic wand. I hope you don’t think you’re supposed to insert it. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/3 "2014-08-01T03:18:30Z")
:smack: So that’s what we’ve doing wrong. 😃 😃 I’ve seen them used in movies. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/4 "2014-08-01T03:35:32Z")
There’s a French-owned and -operated brothel in Bangkok called Eden Club. (They have a website.) They hire only bisexual girls, and the customer has to take at least two with no upward limit. They have, or at least had, a guy who auditions the new applicants. I always thought that must be a pretty good job, but I don’t know if they pay him. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/5 "2014-08-01T03:43:07Z")
Doesn’t sound like a good job at all to me, but I’d like to be her assistant. Her “right hand man,” if you will. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/6 "2014-08-01T04:13:29Z")
It sounds like a good job, but what happens when you get the toys that don’t work right? Think about all the misshaps! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/7 "2014-08-01T04:19:57Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > It sounds like a good job, but what happens when you get the toys that don’t work right? Think about all the misshaps! I wonder if she has some good ER stories. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/8 "2014-08-01T04:49:54Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > It sounds like a good job, but what happens when you get the toys that don’t work right? Think about all the misshaps! “This butt plug is _too large_.” “This cock ring is _too small_.” “This double-headed dildo is _just right_.” ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/9 "2014-08-01T05:09:47Z")
When advice is given to young people just sitting out on the voyage of life about what they should do you often hear some variation on, “Go with what you love to do and success will follow.” Well, who doesn’t like getting off? ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/10 "2014-08-01T05:48:22Z")
With my luck, this would be my first toy to test: 1. Attach metal clips to nutsack and shove large one up ass. 2. Set taser to full power, engage. Um, no. Best sex toy is still a girl. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/11 "2014-08-01T05:51:22Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > There’s a French-owned and -operated brothel in Bangkok called Eden Club. (They have a website.) They hire only bisexual girls, and the customer has to take at least two with no upward limit. They have, or at least had, a guy who auditions the new applicants. I always thought that must be a pretty good job, but I don’t know if they pay him. Twenty francs a week. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/12 "2014-08-01T07:14:31Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Looks like a normal magic wand. I hope you don’t think you’re supposed to insert it. Well, that article _does_ say > [@](#): > > The mom-of-two, from Lincoln, spends seven hours every week testing the toys in her since she became an erotic blogger five years ago. ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/13 "2014-08-01T07:28:07Z")
Woody Allen in “What’s New, Pussycat?”: “I just got a job as a dresser in a strip club. It’s only two dollars an hour, but that’s all I could afford.” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/14 "2014-08-01T07:49:54Z")
> [@OffByOne](#): > > Woody Allen in “What’s New, Pussycat?”: > > “I just got a job as a dresser in a strip club. It’s only two dollars an hour, but that’s all I could afford.” a) beat you to it b) [You misquoted](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059903/quotes?item=qt0195563). ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/15 "2014-08-01T08:10:56Z")
15 orgasms a week? Damn slacker. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/16 "2014-08-01T13:07:29Z")
I’m not sure that such reviews are all that helpful due to the subjective nature of the experience. What if she gives some item a C-Plus rating just because it wasn’t the kind of thing she was in the mood for? Or a mediocre item gets rave reviews because damn, she needed it bad that day? Or the obvious fact that what she likes is not what others may like? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/17 "2014-08-01T13:13:30Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > It sounds like a good job, but what happens when you get the toys that don’t work right? Think about all the misshaps! That’d be one Hell of a Workman’s Comp claim. (Hollywood would be clamoring for the movie rights for the paperwork alone…) ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/18 "2014-08-01T13:26:35Z")
> [@SandyHook](#): > > When advice is given to young people just sitting out on the voyage of life about what they should do you often hear some variation on, “Go with what you love to do and success will follow.” > > Well, who doesn’t like getting off? When I was kid I loved to fish. I often helped my dad put shrimp/minnows/whatever on the hooks. He often told me I was good at it. So good that I should work hard and eventually go pro. I did just that and am now living the dream of being a Master Baiter. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/19 "2014-08-01T15:06:44Z")
At least you’re not a hooker. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547/20 "2014-08-01T16:23:45Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > That’d be one Hell of a Workman’s Comp claim. As an insurance professional I look forward to setting the workers comp rates for the new occupational category of sex toy tester. I _especially_ look forward to studying the claim files to determine the nature and frequency of hazards. I think it should be mandatory that all claims be written up in Penthouse Forum style. (I never thought this would happen to me, but . . .) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-best-job-ever-a-professional-sex-toy-tester/694547.md?page=2)