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Sex Toys - My visit to a sex toy party

Apr 5, 2008 - 4:20:49 PM

Alicia Spector watched squeamish females pass around sex toys - mainly vibrators and dildos - some in repulsion and some with curiosity. They used their hands to feel the texture and speed for each toy, their eyes wide as they handed the toys to one another.

Attending a sex toy party is not something average college students write on their calendars or admit to even their closest friends. Yet students are curious and are beginning to explore the world of sex products.

That's why, when the opportunity arose, sophomore Spector and some of her closest girlfriends took advantage of the invitation. Spector recently attended an off-campus sex toy party. While there, a local sex toy consultant distributed a variety of merchandise - featuring the products' shapes, sizes and speeds.

"Many of the girls said 'ewww' when the consultant passed around the toys," Spector said. "I think they reacted in this manner because they thought others expected them to do so."

Spector noted many of her female peers acted awkward, uncomfortable and embarrassed for fear of judgment in the presence of the phallic-shaped sex toys.

Although a majority of the attendees acted timid, they weren't alone in their curiosity. Spector was one of 35 to 50 Syracuse University female students who attended an in-home sex toy party instructed by a sex toy expert, she said.

While there's no statistical trajectory for these parties, the phenomena has swelled in popularity in the past decade. According to Babeland.com, a top-quality sex shop for men and women located in New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles and online, the company sold 118,250 vibrators in 2005. The popularity and profits from the adult novelties market has caused mega-retailers like Walgreens and CVS to sell their own "personal massagers."

College-aged women more than ever are acknowledging the taboo subject of female masturbation by throwing sex toy parties to explore the many facets of female desire.

"I want to pursue a career as either a sex therapist or a human sex professor, and this would come with the territory so I had to check it out," Spector, a sociology major, said. "This was my first sex toy party, but I didn't feel awkward."

At Spector's party, the sex toy consultant first educated the young women on self-exploration, masturbation and the female anatomy with a PowerPoint presentation before pitching her products - vibrators, dildos, perfumes, lubricants and body creams.

Lisa Garvis, a Syracuse sex toy consultant who has worked for Pure Romance - a national in-home party company that offers heighteners, lubricants and bedroom accessories for sexual enhancement - since April 2007 conducts on average four parties a week on and off campus.

"The girls are often times shy, but still open to the discussion," Garvis said. "It's still taboo in our society to talk about sex outside of marriage, and masturbation is just considered wrong."

When Garvis conducts parties, she educates the 20-something females in off-campus homes and dormitories on campus about their sexual anatomy. She's the right woman for the job, too. Before she started her job as a sex-toy consultant, Pure Romance required her to take a sexual education class.

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