# OK fellas, fess up. Who here has used a fleshlight?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 16, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942 "2011-08-16T19:44:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/41 "2011-08-17T16:02:12Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> I hope you tip him.
Lordy, I’m sure the last thing he wants is the tip.
(Who the hell was using this thing? A leper?)
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/42 "2011-08-17T16:52:03Z")
Where’s the option for “No, but I think it might be fun to try”? I just don’t know if I want to waste the money on something I may not like. And unlike pretty much everything else, there’s absolutely no way I’d be willing to sell it.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/43 "2011-08-17T16:57:47Z")
> [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](#):
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> On a semi-related topic, Japanese for mons pubis is **shame hill**.
I always knew those guys on Capitol Hill were a bunch of cunts.
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### Author:  [@Bosstrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstrain)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/44 "2011-08-17T17:03:28Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> He likes it but he says it’s a pain in the ass to take care of. Gotta wash and rinse it after every use and there’s something you have to do beforehand. So it’s not something you can look forward to after a long day at work - you have to plan.
Good grief, I’d rather buy diner, sit through a crappy movie and sneak out the back door at 2:00am…let someone else deal with the mess. 😃
(that just sounds really mean)
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### Author:  [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/45 "2011-08-17T17:08:07Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> He likes it but he says it’s a pain in the ass to take care of. Gotta wash and rinse it after every use and there’s something you have to do beforehand. So it’s not something you can look forward to after a long day at work - you have to plan.
Jeez it takes about five minutes to warm it up beforehand with warm water out of the tap, and then another couple to wash it out afterwards. Hardly something that needs to be scheduled into your week. I typically decide “I’m horny, think I’ll have a wank” and then less than 10 minutes later I’m doing so, and whilst the fleshlight is warming up I can pick out the porn I want to watch. Don’t see the problem myself.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/46 "2011-08-17T18:13:25Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> Where’s the option for “No, but I think it might be fun to try”?
Fuckin’ pervert!
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/47 "2011-08-17T18:25:59Z")
The best thing about shanking is that you don’t need anything but a locked door (or a very understanding flat mate). Why complicate life’s greatest freebie with equipment?
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### Author:  [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/48 "2011-08-17T20:33:22Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#):
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> I have several and can’t imagine having to stick to greasy-palm-only masturbation now. Pron and a fleshlight? Great way to spend half an hour.
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> I’ve tried a variety of the models and so far think the wonder wave is the best, but it’s all a matter of taste.
“A matter of TASTE?” My God and yuck yuck yuck.
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### Author:  [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/49 "2011-08-17T20:36:55Z")
> [@spooje](#):
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> Pretty sure this in one item that has no resale value.
Never underestimate the power of Craigslist.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/50 "2011-08-17T20:44:26Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#):
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> I have several and can’t imagine having to stick to \*\*greasy-palm-only \*\*masturbation now. .
Paula Dean has always said butter makes everything better.
Your not saying Paula Dean had been lying to us now are ya?
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### Author:  [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/51 "2011-08-18T02:06:56Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#):
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> According to what I have heard, this correlates closely with the (until recently) censorship of pubic hair / pudendum. Interesting data. Thanks.
How recently? Are you sure the censorship isn’t still in effect? Maybe they’ve dropped it from movies but not from print? Either way, the penis was also censored. It’s funny how in magazines, the penis is pixelated, but it’s blurred exactly to its edges, leaving the outline sharply defined. Also they sell porn in virtually every convenience store across the country.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/52 "2011-08-18T02:08:54Z")
Another vote for “no, but I would if I wasn’t so lazy and cheap”.
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/53 "2011-08-18T02:51:34Z")
Thank god we live in an age where everything you say online will eventually be dug up by employers and your grandkids without your consent so they can use it to judge you, deny you employment and pry into your personal life.
Having said that, the fleshlight is $50, but a product called the tenga egg is only $4 or so.
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### Author:  [@punch\_line\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/punch_line_loser)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/54 "2011-08-18T03:36:53Z")
> [@spooje](#):
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> Pretty sure this in one item that has no resale value.
Worst yard sale ever.
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### Author:  [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/55 "2011-08-18T03:58:20Z")
A _yard?!?_ Criminy, what do they put in those things?
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/56 "2011-08-18T04:09:21Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> Having said that, the fleshlight is $50, but a product called the tenga egg is only $4 or so.
Having no idea what a Tenga Egg is, I visited their website and they say it’s a one time use sex toy. So now you’d have to break out the calculator and amortize the value of a Fleshlight or something…
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### Author:  [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/57 "2011-08-18T06:59:15Z")
In fairness a fleshlight is a high end sex product - my first wanking toy cost me about £8 and I knew I liked it so I just worked up from there. FL is now the most popular in the world so it must be doing something right.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/58 "2011-08-18T18:29:36Z")
I just had two terrible visions.
One, a human sized stick figure made from two by fours and a basketball with a wig. Fleshlight duct taped to the appropriate spot and rough hand painted letters on the "torso/spine’ that spell out Git R Done.
Another, giving a kid a fleshlight and telling them its a special kind of sea shell. “Look
Bobby, if you hold it up to your ear you can hear the ocean!!! You need to take this to show and tell, Ms Smith will be so impressed!”
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/59 "2011-08-18T20:52:02Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#):
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> Jeez it takes about five minutes to warm it up beforehand with warm water out of the tap, and then another couple to wash it out afterwards.
Great. Now the _toys_ need foreplay.:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-fellas-fess-up-who-here-has-used-a-fleshlight/592942/60 "2011-08-18T21:44:08Z")
> [@Jophiel](#):
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> Having no idea what a Tenga Egg is, I visited their website and they say it’s a one time use sex toy. So now you’d have to break out the calculator and amortize the value of a Fleshlight or something…
They say it is a one time use thing, but that isn’t necessarily true (it is more of a marketing ploy IMO). You just wash it out and use again.
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