Sex toys and human self-desire
Happiness is ancient, and can be traced back to the ice age of the stone penis.
Those led to the Victorian era.
Paved the way for today's silicone and plastic gadgets.
Nowadays, sex toys are no longer taboo in the United States, and the market is growing rapidly.
Almost half of men and more than half of straight women have used sex toys.
However, no one will think it is safe to use sex toys in the United States.
Lisa Lauris, a Vermont psychotherapist and founder of the National Association for scientific and artistic progress, said the alarming, unseen trends spread across the sex toy industry.
Advocates of the body
Safe sex toys in the United StatesS.
In 2014, she organized a study to determine how clean and safe sex toys are actually on the market.
What she found was a mistake in the manufacture of the product, which was very disgusting.
"We went to different retailers and we went to Amazon and other sites and we bought products," Lawless explained . " He also owns Holistic Wisdom, Vermont's adult novelty store and education center, instead.
"We found that some of them had traces of lint from clothes, some had body fluids, and some even had pubic hair.
We said, 'This is really disturbing.
The discovery of "illegal" is part of the safety product movement, which points to a common national problem: the $15 billion industry has the most unregulated safety standards in the country, at the state and federal levels.
When purchasing sex toys, the responsibility to determine whether the company is honest with the consumer about toxic materials, harmful design defects and misleading packaging falls entirely on the consumer.
The reason why sex toys are poorly regulated is because their manufacturers take advantage of a simple tag loophole to classify the vast majority of sex toys as "novelty items", unlike medical devices or foods, it does not require mandatory testing.
This allows manufacturers to freely sell untested products, bypassing all medical regulations.
At present, one of the only institutions that ignore the industry is the Consumer Product Safety Committee (CPSC)
The company is responsible for overseeing the sale of sex toys but does not require any form of testing.
The Food and Drug Administration regulates three specific vibrators, but only because they are classified as obstetric and gynecological therapeutic medical devices.
The rest of the market is the Wild West of sex toys, and there is no legislation to solve the problem.
While not all sex toys pose a threat to medical treatment, the problem is that consumers cannot know what is unsafe.
The testing of the CPSC covers features but does not cover the health guidelines.
When you buy a chair, you can assume that the Commission has rigorously tested its utility, which means that you may not fall down as soon as you sit down.
But when you buy a vibrating dildo, you can only hope that it will screw you the way you want it. The U. S.
The government does not regulate the safety risks of sex toys many researchers have drawn attention to the actual health hazards that may be caused by the use of these untested and unregulated sex toys.
"For a product that will be used in the life of about half of the American population, if used improperly, it may cause serious injury or even death, which is a dangerous defect in the regulatory plan, 2013, whistleblower lawyer Emily Stabile wrote in the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice.
Another legal paper published in the journal Law and Inequality in 2007 called on the federal government to fail to "protect consumers from toxic toys ".
"One of the most worrying health problems is the risk of exposure to toxic plastics.
Sex toys made of jelly plastic may contain compounds that increase flexibility and durability, known as phthal salts, which can then be dissolved and passed through the skin into the body.
Their impact on human health has not yet been studied in depth, but animal studies at the National Academy of Sciences have put scientists on hold: males exposed to neighboring benzene Ester show greater risk of infertility, sperm quantity reduce undescended testis penis abnormalities.
Congress has permanently banned three kinds of neighboring benzene ester with a content greater than 0.
Children's toys account for 1%, but sex toys.
Taking into account the way sex toys are used, this may speed up the "[immigration]phthalates]
As one researcher wrote in Law and Inequality in 2007, from the product to the body, it did create a very unstable situation.
There is also a concern that viruses and bacteria may be trapped in certain materials used to make sex toys.
Just because some products have been labeled phthalate-
Lawless said, "it doesn't mean they have no problem.
"Porous materials are better in keeping bacteria, and bacteria can cause urinary tract infections if consumers do not properly keep the product clean.
As Lawless said, this is especially problematic if old sex toys are repackaged and resold.
Sarah Sloan, a sex and relationship educator, also agreed.
In a conversation with Inverse about sex dolls, she said that because viruses can be hidden in porous toys, "basic cleaning may not be enough.
"When it comes to health, since there is no place where bacteria can be hidden, it is feasible to have a hole-free toy.
When using sex toys, porous plastic should be avoided.
Fortunately, the security situation in the industry has improved over the past 20 years.
"I started working in this industry about 17 years ago when it was really a Wild West in terms of whether or not the product contained O-benzene Ester," Lawless said . ".
"Only a few companies are aware of these issues and have developed institutions --safe products.
"Many of the changes are the result of the growing participation of women in the toy industry.
In particular, the popularity of the "party industry --
Party for women to buy and discuss sex toys
Triggered a movement to find out exactly what these toys are made.
Today, a group of influential women say
By putting pressure on manufacturers to clarify the content of their products, identifying bloggers continues the campaign.
Now, however, it is the responsibility of consumers to figure out what is safe.
In recent years, the accessibility of the Amazon and eBay sex toys markets has made this more difficult, not just because it is difficult to verify content in international products.
Local sex toy dealers and manufacturers are unable to compete with the prices offered by these online services, resulting in manufacturers moving production overseas, where they cannot always be sure what exactly is put in the item.
"There are very cheap knock-on now.
"Products based on Amazon's existing products," Lawless said . ".
"These products are sold directly to consumers who do not know that they are made of quality materials or how long they will last.
"Her only advice to people who want to buy sex toys is to do research and look for good things --
Well-known brands.
At least these "are based in the United States," she said. S.
If they make false claims against the product, it is indeed the responsibility here.
"The most realistic first step in solving the American sex toy problem is to raise public awareness of the problem.
In turn, having these discussions requires overcoming cultural taboos about sex toys that still exist.
Americans spend more money on sex than ever before and talk privately, but most of them don't discuss what their toys are made of or where they come from
Less than four years ago, sex toys were still banned in some states for obscenity.
The ironic thing about the sex toy industry is that they are "over-doing
Regulated by law and below
As Kierstyn Smith of the National Women's Health Network said in 2015, for security reasons.
Due to the state's formality, the double standard of regulation has emerged for a product and should be assessed --a product.
Of course, you will definitely have a good time, but you should not feel stressed about whether you will endanger your health in the process.