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Floopy Investigates Upgrading on a Budget

October 9, 2008 · Filed under Blinded by SCIENCE! · Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,

Well, it’s that time again, when ol’ faithful has finally given up the ghost, and there is no more joy to be had from the thing before it joins the big vagina in the sky, or wherever sex toys believe they go. It sure as hell isn’t silicone heaven. You reach for your wallet & moths fly out. What to do?

Upgrading is a rather pressing need, but how do you weigh out the pros and cons? Is durability more important than being able to get the bloody thing right now before you die of boredom? Or can you hold out that little bit longer by making do with the contents of your kitchen, to give yourself time to save up for something spectacular that’s going to last the distance?

Well, the answer is simple. You need to assess your needs, your wants, and use that to make the choice. Do your research. Obviously, online stores are not your first port of call if you’re in a hurry, but they do serve an important function: they will let you know, in a much more comfortable hurry, just what is available within your price range. Better to let your fingers do the walking than to run to your nearest sex shop and buy the first toy you find that could reasonably replace what you have.

Making an informed choice is important. What you do have access to on the web that you won’t have access to in the store is information about the safety & care of different sex toy materials. Before you go out & buy that cyberskin love glove, google it. Find out just how much maintenance is involved in your sex toy of choice. Find out what it’s made of. How to tell, for example, pure silicone from silicone mixes. Find out how much different stores in your area are charging, and if need be, go in armed & ready to haggle the price down.

In the end, it really is your own choice what you buy. Just remember, caveat emptor, so do your damned homework first!

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Floopy Investigates the Joy of Silicone Toys

August 14, 2008 · Filed under Blinded by SCIENCE! · Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,

Let me say that I am a big fan of sex toys. And this is important, because I think it makes me something of an authority on them. You must too, or you wouldn’t be here reading this stuff. Either that or you’re here looking for new fap material. Well, read on, there’s plenty of both ahead.

Surgical grade silicone is probably the most marvellous material ever that sex toys could possibly be made out of. It’s durable, pleasant to the touch, smells neutral, and it cleans up a treat.

You have no idea how great it is to know that if Mr Buzzy has been lurking on the carpet for so long he’s covered in dust bunnies & has to be pried off with a crow-bar, that you can just pop him in the dishwasher or into a pot of boiling water, and hey presto, you have a nice, clean vibe. It’s like autoclaving for the DIY lover.

Let me tell you the tale of my first silicone vibe. Actually, it was a matching pair of vibes that I bought on sale – two for the price of one – because the dank Canberra sex shop couldn’t move the stock. I was instantly in love. Those two vibes took all kinds of abuse. Hours of daily use, the aforementioned experiments in carpet-welding (a girl has to bleed sometime!), knocks, bumps, exposure to all kinds of weird chemicals that would normally break a vibe. Last year, some six years after I bought them, they died. Their motors finally crapped out. The silicone is still going strong after six years, so they have merely been delegated to dildo duty. Normally, I expect a vibe to have a bed-life of between three and six months. Not bad for $50 worth of vibes, eh?

All I can say is that even if you aren’t interested in the health aspect of surgical-grade silicone, then the pure economics of the material should steer you right towards it. You can pay up to two and a half times the cost of your average vibe for a silicone vibe that will last longer than the motor in it. You’ll have this baby for at least half a decade if you are hard on it. The average silicone vibe will have paid for itself within two years, and by the time you are on your third glorious year with Ol’ Faithful, you will have saved yourself the cost of at least one more vibe. And you still have that long again to look forward to in the life of your vibe, and that only if you plan on retiring it once the motor has worn out. In the long run you are hurting your wallet not to buy lovely, durable silicone.

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