This is an excerpt from \"Buzz: the history of sexual toys.
\"When I met my first personality toy, I was ten years old.
My family and I are on vacation in the Florida Keys.
We just arrived at the Sugarloaf Hotel, an old hotel in Florida with its own dolphin named Sugar and stayed in a closed lagoon of the hotel.
I am doing what I have always liked to do to familiarize myself with a new hotel room: looking for anything that the former occupants of the room might have left behind.
I will open each drawer and comb every inch of the room.
Normally, I find that I have not found any more than the Gitane Bible and some Chinese takeout menus.
But it\'s different this time.
After finding the necessary Bible in the bedside table drawer, I started searching for bulky wooden vanity drawers one by one.
There\'s nothing in the top drawer.
There\'s nothing in the second drawer.
There\'s nothing in the third drawer.
Then, when I got the bottom drawer, I won the first prize.
There\'s something inside!
I put my hand in and took out a bag with a zipper.
I pulled the zipper of the package eagerly and found something in it: one or eight
Cylindrical objects in inches.
I ran to my parents with the plastic tubelike device.
\"Look what I found out!
Pencil sharpener!
\"The horror of my parents revealed to me that I found something more interesting.
\"That\'s not a pencil sharpener!
\"My mom said frantically, ran past me and took it away.
\"Wash your hands. ”“What is it?
I asked innocently.
\"You don\'t need to know,\" My mother said . \".
I went to wash my hands as instructed and we never talked about it again.
I don\'t remember how I found out that what I had in my hand was a vibrator.
Maybe I\'m older and smarter. year-
Brother told me.
Maybe I later giggled through a group of my friends.
Anyway, that encounter gave me an important lesson: What I found seemingly harmless has the power to make people feel uncomfortable.
I have never forgotten the vibrator and the reaction it got from my parents.
I bought my first vibrator nine years later.
That\'s Dr. Johnson\'s pocket rocket.
Plastic clit vibrator that is a bit similar to the mini flashlight.
When they fell in love, I did what anyone would do: constantly talking about the objects I was obsessed.
However, my friends did not share my passion for the climax --
Power to produce my new pocket rocket.
Sure, they were happy for me, but they were also worried that I didn\'t date anyone.
They want to know if I will become addicted to my new machine;
They worry that I can\'t enjoy sex.
I took a break from the climax and wanted to know: Am I addicted?
When I was 19 years old, did I break the clit permanently?
Can I succeed in bringing happiness to myself, does it mean that I ruined myself because of the relationship?
Of course, the answer to all these questions is yes no.
But a few years later, I didn\'t know that until a job selling sex toys brought me into their strange history and our complicated and surprising century --
Long term relationship with them.
The more I immerse myself in the world of sex toys, the more I realize how sexual it is.
I saw evidence of mainstream sex everywhere.
The toy industry is promoting an ideology that is more in line with older gender and sexual norms, rather than radical sexual empowerment.
Even in this industry
The standard term for \"sex toys\" is infant.
Male sexual problems are given \"erectile dysfunction\" drugs, serious
To legalize these problems as grandiose terms of disease.
At the same time, \"toys\" have also changed the sexual concept of women.
What is more insulting is still the sex toy itself.
Many of them look like children\'s toys, shaped like dolls, rabbits, monarch butterflies, or caterpillars in Alice\'s Wonderland.
I thought the whole existence of sex-
The toy industry is a sexual revolution manifested by liberation.
My experience in this industry tells me that maybe we are not at the level I believe.
However, sex toys are difficult to ignore because they are the physical embodiment of the relationship between the modern world and sex conflict.
Sex toys appear on television on sex shows in cities, while in other parts of the country people may be arrested for selling sex toys.
However, despite their legal status, they can find it on bedside tables across the country-
Even the whole world
How did we get here?
How is a giant vibrating penis considered key to the happiness of marriage?
Why, despite the popularity of sex toys among social conservatives, are they still illegal in many conservative states?
To answer these questions, you need to review the strange history of sex toys.
In 2008, I studied for my PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
My purpose is to study the history of sex toys.
As a result, this journey is more strange than I thought.
In 2017, the current $15 billion-dollar sex-
The toy industry is not as backward as it used to be.
More women have sex
There are more tech companies than ever before, although they still have only about 30% of their shares.
Sex led by women --
The design of toy enterprises is becoming more and more complicated.
They don\'t look like children\'s toys, they are more like items that can be found in the Museum of Modern Art.
Most importantly, the design is based on the anatomy of women and the sexual pleasure of women.
However, since sex toys are still primarily related to female sex, the industry is highly controversial and not serious enough.
It\'s still hard for entrepreneurs to start a business.
Put money and advertising (
Sex toy ads are banned by Google and Facebook).
Consumers are also suffering.
However, not all hopes have been dashed.
History of sex-
The toy industry has proved that many
Technology entrepreneurs are not just about profit.
They change their attitude towards sex there and change the world in the process.
On October 30, our boss held a book club event for the book at the sex museum.