Old people using dildo

This year, there were nine recipients of the highly sought after funding by the state-run Danish Council for Independent Research , one of which is a study about how to make the perfect sex toy for post menopausal women. Svala Vagnsdatter Andersen, the researcher pioneering the sex toy study, told us that her research is "about giving voice to elderly women as a sexual minority that seldom has a say in the field of lust, desire, and sexuality. Seeing as the Danish government thinks it's worth a couple of million kroner to find out what sex toys granny is using, we figured we'd look into it too. As Svala has barely just begun researching the matter, we had to look elsewhere for a source well-versed in the art of self-pleasure. So we found 71 year old Joan Price, author of several books on the subject of senior sex and reviewer of vibrators on her blog Naked At Our Age , and asked her what she needs to get her motor running these days. VICE: How did you get into sex toys?

The series, which centers around two friends who face many challenges while trying to create a vibrator for seniors, has brought to light an interesting real-life question: Where are all the sex toys for older people? Their fictional creation has a soft grip gel sleeve, is lightweight, can be easily repositioned, and even features glow-in-the-dark control buttons. Sounds ideal — except no such thing exists in the real world. While sex toys have made a fleeting appearance in other popular TV shows, basing a major series storyline around them is on another level. And having the sex toy be the brainchild of postmenopausal women who talk openly about their experiences developing and using it? The most recent season of Broad City , for example, featured an older woman named Garol shopping for a comically large dildo.

Humans have been using sex toys for an extraordinarily long time. Bonobos and apes indulge in sexual play, so it's not really surprising; but we've been discovering sex toys that are up to 30, years old, made from chalk, stone, and other crude materials though anything would look a bit beaten up if it was that old. You'll grip your humble vibrator a little closer while reading about these bizarre sex toys in history. It's a serious misunderstanding in the modern world that we didn't truly "understand" human sexuality, or the female orgasm, until fairly recently. Many civilizations have known about, and invested in, sexual pleasure in both genders for centuries , and gone to some pretty spectacular lengths to make sure everybody was happy, from penis insertions to dildos made of breadsticks.

Here's how to inoculate ourselves against negative ones. Verified by Psychology Today. Elementary school teachers have invited me into their classrooms to talk about a variety of topics that have included human reproduction, sexual abuse prevention, physical and emotional changes of puberty , body part awareness, masturbation , sexual orientation , and a host of others, dependent in large part on the particular grade level in question. So you can imagine some of the things I have heard. Add to this the fact that I am a parent and the many questions I have gotten from my own child, and I would suggest that if there is a sex question that a young child might have asked I have heard it.