An Orthodox woman, under the pen name Shosha Pearl, is writing erotic stories that are in harmony with Jewish law. Another invented a kosher sex toy. Why should secular people have all the fun? 
…why?
I mean, the point of erotic fiction is to arouse erotic feeling. Is there someone out there who is more aroused by erotica that conforms to Jewish law?
…then again, forget I asked. In a world where people buy erotic fiction involving dinosaurs, anything is possible.
Why not? There’s a market.
A kosher sex toy? I thought the Orthodox couldnt mix meat with cheese?
About nine months ago, The New York Times Magazine ran an article about a woman who works as a sex therapist with strictly Orthodox Jewish women, who have very little or no sex education and have no idea that sex can be fun and pleasurable.
Oh, Thudlow, boinketh me! Oh, your throbbing payess! Oh, I’m a dirty shiksa! I wanna go to MIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMI!!!
Something like that?
What makes a sex toy, “Kosher”? I shudder to ask.
(We all know various things which make it not Kosher, ;))
Look, I’m sure the best cuts of meat already have a defined market, but maybe there are parts that… umm… don’t sell so well…?
Of course I have no idea if the decision to make a toy happens before or after the bolt gun.
What, you thought they stitched it together, put it on an operating table, and raised it to the roof during a lightning storm? Do you think any woman Really wants a “Franken-Peenie”!?
“Honey, Look! I bought you a gift…!”
“Why is the box shaking…?”
In a somewhat similar vein, there was a recent New Yorker article about Chinese merchants who sell lingerie in Egypt. They sell very sexy underwear to very religious women, who often come into the stores wearing a burkha or similar. The only person who ever gets to see the woman in the expensive lingerie is her husband.
And in more secular countries we of course invite all of our friends over for the weekly underwear viewing… no? :dubious:
“Wow, I really love your new sexy corset honey, can’t wait until we get to show everyone”. That’ll go over well.
coffeecat’s link has an explanation. About midway through the page.
My mom visited Egypt, and said she saw a lot of sexy outfits issue private homes.
This is one of those threads where you get really disappointed after you click it and realize there are no pictures. Just saying.
But we really do need to know what makes a sex toy kosher or un-kosher. Someone get a rabbi please. Won’t be able to sleep until this is cleared up.
Probably the forbidden element of it, or whatever.
Nothing. Kosher, or the laws of kashrut, apply only to food, and products relating to the production or consumption of food. Using kosher in this context is like calling a sex toy gluten-free or an erotica story (in which no one eats anything) vegetarian.
In this context it seems like a horribly chosen, goyische way of saying that the toy is halachally acceptable which means, generally, that it doesn’t enable sexual practices that are forbidden, sex between unmarried people, habits that replace married sex, or ejaculation outside of a vagina.
Multi-quote failed, and I forgot that I wanted to answer this.
It’s the same reason why there’s erotica in every culture and subculture, and featuring characters and practices specific to every culture and subculture. To a large extent the pleasure of erotica is in the imagining, and familiarity enhances the ability to imagine. Characters who are like you, who live like you, do things that make innate sense to you, and who you can therefore easily imagine are you connect with erotica readers.
I’m not Orthodox (I wouldn’t be posting tonight, it’s a holiday!) or married, but I know the taharas ha mishpacha practices, and I’m a writer, and I can easily imagine how a sense of anticipation and excitement could be created by describing the main character walking home from the mikveh on a cold winter night, enduring the task and the weather for the specific purpose of having sex with a loving husband who’s at home, anxiously awaiting her arrival. That’s some heady stuff, much more so if you’ve lived it and know that cold walk, and the emotions that go along.
As a former resident of Cairo, I can attest to the fact that lingerie, from cheap to fine, is on display in every mall and market. It’s quite striking if you are not used to seeing lingerie-o-rama everywhere you look.
Anyone ever see the Curb Your Enthusiasm about Orthodox Jews and the hole in the sheets?
Hey, I’m not religious at all, and yet still, the only person who ever gets to see me in my sexy lingerie is my husband.
On a related note, I remember reading about an online retailer who sent a whole bunch of very sexy shoes off to some place, shoes in various sizes and styles, but pretty much all stiletto heeled. And the recipients turned out to be nuns.