We are often asked if buying vibrators and other sex toys is legal in Australia. Partly because people are often hearing of police raids on Australian sex shops with little explanation as to why.
Yes, buying sex toys is legal. You have nothing to fear as a customer of Australian sex shops.
The raids you will hear about from time to time are because the sex shop in question may be selling unclassified or X-rated movies. This is a crime in all Australian states – but you can buy X-rated material in the A.C.T. or N.T. Also, a registered online sex shop from one of those territories can also sell X-rated porn online to people living in any state.
To stay withing the bounds of the law businesses such as the Raunchy Republic Sex Shop opt not to sell adult movies. Instead we focus on having an excellent range of sex toys and adult novelties, including dildos and vibrators of course.
From its humble beginnings as a surgical lubricant to becoming one of the most popular sexual lubricants available, K-Y Jelly has been a success story for a very long time. So is it really stiff competition (pun intended) that now threatens its future?
For the early part of its existence K-Y Jelly was used by doctors for medical applications (in its sterile form). In 2004 however the sterile version was discontinued.
As a personal lubricant, sales have been strong for decades and it is widely renowned as the most powerful brand in the general lubricant category. There are a number of reasons that point to K-Y Jelly’s popularity:
- It doesn’t react with latex or silicone based sex toys and condoms.
- It doesn’t contain perfumes or colours.
- K-Y Jelly does not stain making it very easy to clean of all surfaces and materials.
In more recent times however the number of lubricant producers and variety of lubricants produced has grown dramatically. Competition has exploded and the lubrication market is flooded with products with fancy names and far more attractive packaging. K-Y Jelly has its work cut out.
Despite the competition the makers of K-Y have resisted any major packaging changes. They have released variations of the product aimed at people who use it for sexual enhancement but K-Y Jelly itself remains pretty much the same. Nowadays there are few people under 30 years of age who will be all that familiar with K-Y. For those who do use lubricant it’s not likely to be their first choice so is there a future for the classic product?
We think that this brand enjoys somewhat of a cult following and so will continue to have its share of the market – for now. But unless there is an overhaul of the branding and marketing then this timeless classic will soon have its time running out.
Want to try K-Y Jelly? Click here
These days we’ve all become familiar with the heightened security at our airports but as one security insider tells us, there is more than just terrorism suspects arousing our security personnel’s interest.
Most people feel somewhat awkward having a stranger go through our luggage, especially when you are one of the random searches conducted in front of everybody else. But how would you feel when security staff found your sex toys in your luggage? Well believe it or not, this happens more often than you might think.
According to our insider (who sensibly wants to remain nameless), finding sex toys during a manual baggage search hardly raises the eyebrows of seasoned security personnel anymore. While the experience remains quite memorable for security staff first timers, seeing sex toys tucked in with clothes, souvenirs and beach towels is apparently par for the course these days.
What is more surprising is that most people are not entirely embarresed when their naughty travel companions are discovered.
So what do you think? Would you be willing to take sex toys on holiday with you even if it meant possible discovery by airport staff? Keep in mind they aren’t illegal in most countries, well, accept for the few hanging onto arcane decency laws.
The first time you heard about glass dildos you probably had a few things running through your mind. For many the thought of glass being inserted into the body doesn’t sound very safe however there is more to glass dildos than you may think.
The first thing you need to understand is that these sex toys are not made from the same glass used say in the windows of your car or house. They are in fact made from a very strong material call Borosilicate, a type of glass that resists shattering, cracking and thermal shock making it extremely durable. Most people refer to the material as Pyrex however this is simply the name given to such products produced by the the Corning Glass Works company in 1915.
Why use glass for sex toys?
Glass is almost ideal as a material for producing visually appealing and uniques designs, not only in the sex toy world. The shapes the designer can use are almost unrestricted, as are the colours. Also, smoothness is very easy to achieve which is obviously desirable.
Are they comfortable though?
Glass dildos are very comfortable and just as effective as any other sex toy material. While they are nice and firm and don’t flex there is absolutely no problem in terms of feeling too hard.
You may or may not need lubricant, depending on your own natural lubrication levels although it’s recommended if you use glass butt plugs or glass anal dildos (as with any anal sex toy use).
We are pleased to announce that we are now stocking nipple sex toys on the Raunchy Republic Sex Shop website. So far we’ve only added a couple of items however we’ll soon be adding many more nipple clamps, nipple pumps and other nipple sex toys to the catalogue.
If you or your partner are responsive to nipple stimulation then these toys will certainly appeal to you. By increasing blood flow to nipples their sensitivity tends to increase which can be very arousing.
We plan to add many more nipple products to our range over the coming weeks too so keep an eye on the nipple toys category or our Twitter feed for updates.
Nipple toys are often aimed at women mainly due to the difference in nipple size however many men are also quite keen on these toys.
What would you do sexually for science?
What would you do sexually, in the name of science? Nerve.com has a fantastic group of articles covering that very inquiry. I was excited to come across this bunch of delicious sex-writing as it was on the coattails of Time Out’s lackluster sex issue. Nerve’s “I did it for Science” really hit the sweet-spot.
The stories range from first time real-doll sex, to first time threesomes to watching 24 hours of Sex and the City. This isn’t ground breaking stuff, but the point is that these are things the writers would not normally do, things they are doing for a sexual experiment—in the name of science!
This experimental question brings up all sorts of interesting quandaries. I could come up with a list of things that I would not normally sexually do, but would be willing to do for the sake of experiment, my writing portfolio and yes, money. I didn’t realise how closely I’d be willing to walk the “sex for money” line.
But, I think what really excites me about the idea of sexually exploring “for science” is not the meager writer’s paycheck that would follow but the idea of simply experimenting in the bedroom for the sake of experimentation. These writers were given a reason to break outside of their regular sex-molds, and that is what is exciting. I’d like to take this idea and apply it to my sex-life…what could I experiment with that I would normally wouldn’t do? Looking at it this way, there seems to be a lot of things I should try….in the name of science.
What about you? If you had to conduct some sexual experiments of things that you normally don’t do, what would you be willing to try?
