THE SEX ACCORDING TO MAÏA
If you regularly walk the aisles of digital sex shops, you may have noticed the rise of a new category of objects: unisex products, usable by everyone, for all types of practices, alone. or several.
Some, like theEndless Fun where the Mai Thai, allow to penetrate (a vagina, an anus) while enclosing (a penis, a scrotum), while vibrating (against a clitoris, a perineum, nipples). Others, like the End, turn any hand into a vibrator. Still others, like the Transform, are used to penetrate two people at the same time … unless it is only one person? Unless it is used to caress rather than penetrate? Or to wrap it around the erogenous zone of your choice? Let’s not even talk about a contraption like the Starsi, before the possibilities of which your devoted waitress will remain politely perplexed.
Of course, this unisex trend is nothing new. The word itself appears in English at the time of the previous sexual revolution (in 1966 according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary). We had unisex clothing, unisex perfumes and cosmetics: it seems natural that the growing interest in non-binary (or less binary) sexuality becomes a commercial niche like any other.
These sextoys gender fluid (fluids in the genre) did not wait for the invention of the unisex label to exist. Most of those who collect dust in your drawers are too – including those who are more associated with men or women, more gay or straight: handcuffs, vibrators, nipple clamps, plugs … It all depends on the uses (and diversions of use) operated by the users. Which are far from being locked into tidy practices.
In 2014, when analyst Jon Millward had fun listing products according to the demographics of their buyers (the detailed report is here), it was found that 62% of dildo enthusiasts were men. It is reasonable to doubt that all of these men were strictly “passive” homosexuals.
Continuity of female and male bodies
Of course, we could relegate these innovations to the rank of opportunistic marketing productions, calibrated to keep up with the times, intended to satisfy the shopping cravings of rebellious teens with neon blue hair.
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