Toys For Boys

I am sitting in the GST sex-shop in north London, glancing up a plastic vagina. I don't do this usually. However a few weeks ago I viewed a news video about some folks in Germany who have reported a pharmacy to the German equal opportunities comisison because of sexual discrimination. The reason, cause it sells sextoys for females and not for males. Now people don't usually talk about this, they rabbit on about the rabbit, but the rubber vagina has yet to have its Sex and the City moment. So what is out there, Or rather, what is in there?

Daniel Rostance is the sales rep for G,S,T. He's a giant and he looks moody, though he guides me through the shelves of men's toys with the energy of a mechanic discussing engine parts. "The big thing at the moment are the anal toys," he says, waving at a wall of Rocks Off Naughty Boy prostate massagers. "Lads look to have found their bums at long last. Straight men didn't used to want to buy anything anal," he beams at me - the fleshlite, "That's all changed."

Together we peruse inflatable dolls there is an obese one called Fatima the Fully Functioning Sex Doll, who I feel a weird compassion for and some vaginas. I stuck my finger up one. It has the texture of warm apple pie. It feels dead. "Fellas mostly get them to use alone," Peter whispers. He points out the Juicy Lucy portable can, which looks like a beer can but has both a vagina and an anus inside, and the Fleshlight, a torch containing a vagina. Both look like they were made by the ever-smiling Q for James Bond, "Now, Bond, if you press this a vagina will shoot out!"

Toys are a lot more acceptable now than they used to be. There is more mixing between the mainstream and us. But sex toys for women are still more talked about. There is such a large market. Why is this, Why do women wave their rabbits at the world while men hide their rubber vaginas?

A mans sextoy does not look quite as cute as female sex-toys. A butt plug looks more attractive than a fake vagina. You can't say the vagina is an ugly thing. You cant call them ugly, quite the opposite infact.