How young?

Contributor: charletnarouh charletnarouh
-What are your feelings on toy use by teenagers and young adults?
-How young is too young, in your opinion, for someone to start using toys?
-Would you recommend using toys to a virgin who hasn't had any sexual experience with another person?
-If you were or are a parent, would you allow, encourage, discourage or forbid your teenager from using one? If you would encourage it, how would you approach them about it?
-Would you take them shopping, make recommendations, be angry if you found out they used one?
-Is there an age threshold where your opinion would change?
-Would permitting or encouraging a young person to experiment with toys reduce promiscuity or encourage it?
-Do you think it's beneficial or harmful for a young person to experiment with masturbation, with or without toys, before their first sexual experience with another person?
-Were you encouraged or forbidden from masturbating or using toys early in life and how has it shaped your sexuality as an adult?
-Or, those youngins out there, are your parents aware, clueless, encouraging, discouraging, strict, lenient about your sex life, masturbation, toy use, etc?
-If anyone had a toy before age 18, or before you could legally buy one on your own, how did you obtain it? Did an adult help you buy it and, if so, who? Did you use a fake ID or otherwise skirt the rules? Did someone give it to you?
02/19/2012
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Contributor: Rin (aka Nire) Rin (aka Nire)
Wow. Lots of questions.

I've got no problem with teens and young adults using toys. I was 19 when I got my first toy, and my mother came along to help me pick it out. I honestly can't say when a person is "too young" to try out toys, since different people start masturbating at different ages, and it's a little too hard for me to decide when the cutoff age should be (though the start of one's teenage years is at least old enough). As for promiscuity, I think that's just going to depend on the individual person. I can't see toys promoting it, honestly, though I wouldn't be surprised if they reduced it.

It's extremely beneficial for a person to masturbate before having a sexual encounter with another. Masturbation is fun and natural, and knowing your body and what you like will allow you to enjoy yourself more when you do finally have sex. And virgins should definitely look into toys if that happens to interest them. I'm a virgin, and sex toys are one of my greatest joys in life. I think it's silly to "save yourself" for a real person. All that does is deny yourself a form of sexual enjoyment. No one should feel that they have to wait for the real thing.
02/19/2012