In the first decade of the new millennium, we like to flatter ourselves that we are , for the first time, totally at ease with our sexuality and our sexual pleasures and that sex toys are something we have invented to meet our sexual preferences and demands. Whereas, in reality, sexual gratification, with the use of sexual aids, has been around for much longer than this century or even this millennium.
Ancient Greek art and literature depicted double ended dildos (Greek olisbos: dildos) from as early as the third century BC, but, much debate rages on whether the Greeks were the first culture to use sex toys and the oldest known dildo was found in Germany and dates from the Stone Age (approximately 30,000 years ago).
Earlier sex toys were made of stone, leather, pottery and for those not afraid of the odd splinter, wood too.
In fact, every age and culture throughout history has contributed to advancing their (and our) sexual pleasures.
The Greeks, perhaps, did not invent dildos, but, their traders sold them around Mediterranean ports.
350 AD saw our Mediterranean cousins using olive oil for more than cooking as it became a personal lubricant for vaginal and anal lovemaking.
Whilst India was busy putting the final touches to their sexual literature, the sixty-four arts (the Kama Sutra being the most famous translation) and inventing the penis extender, the Romans were equally occupied with orgies, dildos, simple sex toys and pleasures of the flesh.
The ancient Chinese were the first to use cock rings (1200AD) and also gave the world Ben Wa Balls (circa 500AD) (aka Geisha balls, love eggs, play balls etc). Although, admittedly, with several centuries separating these exciting inventions.
In the mid 18th century France’s Marquis de Sade popularised riding crops, nipple clamps and restraints as part of BDSM sexual activities.
The first vibrator was invented by an American physician and was a large, steam-powered contraption and in 1869 when it was created it was used to cure female “hysteria” and would not be openly admitted to being a sex toy until the 1930’s.
Victorian England, may well be the epitome of sexual taboos and repression, but, for every one shouting “you can’t and won’t” there will be someone stating “we will and we do” and this era produced the butt plug and the, much more pliable, rubber dildo.
Whilst we, of the modern era, did not invent sex toys and, admittedly, have much to thank our forebears for, we can take comfort in the knowledge that we have taken advances in technology and innovations and made these new methods and materials an advancement of our sexual pleasures and have produced sex toys that our ancient ancestors could never have dreamed possible.
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