# Sex toys with bluetooth **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 6, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340 "2021-03-06T17:12:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/1 "2021-03-06T17:12:19Z")
Sex toy companies offer vibrators not only with wired remote control, but wireless and finally Bluetooth connectivity. If your partner has the toy inserted and the proper smart phone app installed you can dial up and start him/her buzzing from anywhere in the world. Could make that next meeting a bit less boring although somewhat surprising. The best ones are quiet also so they are the only one aware of it. Plus, the vibration can be synced to any song. No link, but Googling the title brings up all sorts of them. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/2 "2021-03-06T18:11:58Z")
[This one](https://youtu.be/2rsTePeBbWk) is awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/3 "2021-03-06T18:29:34Z")
I sure hope that they are careful! I’ve heard that even the smallest bit of grit accidentally placed alongside the unit can cause [sincere agony](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q8SxnbL1ms&ab_channel=Rikey). ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/4 "2021-03-06T20:58:12Z")
Be careful. The Register printed a report from a company that tore one of these things apart. It was quite insecure - the admin password was encoded in the firmware, for instance. Thus, it was east to hack. I’ll leave the consequences to the imagination of the reader. BTW, for a paper in a course on microprocessors at the University of Illinois in early 1977 I proposed one of these things. (Not internet enabled, of course.) So I kind of feel like Arthur C. Clarke and synchronous orbits for communications satellites. I got an A. I should have applied for a patent. ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/5 "2021-03-07T14:38:47Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Be careful. The Register printed a report from a company that tore one of these things apart. It was quite insecure - the admin password was encoded in the firmware, for instance. Thus, it was east to hack. I’ll leave the consequences to the imagination of the reader. In some cases the consequences can be truly alarming: > **[‘Your Cock Is Mine Now:’ Hacker Locks Internet-Connected Chastity Cage,...](https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7apnn/your-cock-is-mine-now-hacker-locks-internet-connected-chastity-cage-demands-ransom)** > > Turns out giving an internet-connected device control of your penis may not be the best idea ever. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/6 "2021-03-11T19:56:24Z")
I wonder what would happen if you played it the 1812 overture or the Rite of Spring? ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/7 "2021-03-12T23:33:26Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Plus, the vibration can be synced to any song. That puts a lively spin on Name That Tune. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/8 "2021-03-16T16:58:33Z")
I was imaging the expression on someone’s face to Flight of the Bumblebee, but those work too. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/9 "2021-03-16T21:18:30Z")
> **[Maker of ‘Smart’ Vibrators Settles Data Collection Lawsuit for $3.75 Million...](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/technology/we-vibe-vibrator-lawsuit-spying.html)** > > The company, Standard Innovation, which was collecting intimate data from the bluetooth-enabled devices, denied any wrongdoing. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2021, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/10 "2021-03-17T09:27:05Z")
The more advanced forms of this technology combine all the above with virtual reality devices. The field is called [Teledildonics (Wikipedia page)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics). > **[What the heck is... teledildonics?](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kittyknowles/2017/02/09/teledildonics-meaning-what-are-teledildonics-iot-sex-toys-vr-porn/?sh=560196e05565)** > > Explaining the buzzwords of the moment: what are teledildonics and what do they mean for our future? It says here the concept, and the word, have been around since 1975. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/11 "2021-03-17T10:30:50Z")
So if a hacker hacks into a device. And the user thinks it’s their SO, what’s the crime? Sexual assault? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/12 "2021-03-17T10:45:22Z")
Seeing as basically everyone has their phone on or near them at all times, I’m not really sure why these devices need to actually have direct Internet access. Why not have the phone handle the actual connection, using an app and the security features built into said phone? There’s no need for the device itself to run the server. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/13 "2021-03-17T11:18:01Z")
I believe it’s for couples that have to be apart a lot bc of their jobs that require them to travel. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/14 "2021-03-17T22:37:28Z")
Heh! That is truly funny. It would be a weenie dog named ‘Doxie’ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-toys-with-bluetooth/937340/15 "2021-03-17T22:46:05Z")
If the device is using bluetooth, then the connectivity must be through a phone app. Bluetooth is too short-ranged for anything else.