With So Many Sex Toys for Women, Why Bother Having Sex With Men?

Penetrative sex is less than pleasurable for many women. Still, toys can enhance sex between hetero couples.

Emme Witt-Eden
Sensual: An Erotic Life
4 min readMay 5, 2022

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Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich.

My boyfriend and I had a quickie the other morning. Well, I did. With a vibrating dildo in my butt, one in my pussy, and a sucker on my clit, I pulsated myself toward a shivering orgasm.

Suddenly, I wondered: was my boyfriend even necessary during this pleasure session? What role had he played in getting me off? The sensations were all coming from my toys. I could have just as easily achieved then big O without him.

This got me thinking: with all the vibrators and toys on the market today, women can get off just as easily — or even better — on our own. If you look at the statistics about how difficult it is for many vulva-owners to achieve orgasm from penis-in-vagina sex (the Kinsey Institute reported only 37% do) and how easy it is to do so with a vibrator, one asks why women continue to have sex with men at all?

Maybe you think I’m being dramatic — but ponder it for a moment. I’ve got a point, right?

Or not. Soon after I came from my toys that morning, I came back to my senses.

Sex toys just increase the sexual…

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Emme Witt-Eden
Sensual: An Erotic Life

Sex, relationships, and culture writer. Kink expert. Author of Confessions of a Middle-Aged F-Girl. emmewitt.com