Can Sex Toys Help or Harm Your Sex Life? | 30
Call Me Curious
Audible
4.4 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Let the good vibes roll! Sex toys are a global phenomena, racking up more than $35 BILLION dollars in annual sales and… well… growing. They've gone from deep in the back of mom's closet, right into the mainstream spotlight. And sexperts say using one can be like waving a magic wand over your sex life. Nikki & Malone get the buzzzz on all-things sex toys with author, sociologist and sexologist Dr. Carol Queen and find out — can sex toys help or harm your sex life? This ep will definitely hit the spot.
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| 0:00.0 | From Wondry, I'm Nikki Boyer, and this is Call Me Curious, where every week I'll get to the bottom of those funny, strange, puzzling, or just got-a-no questions you have. |
| 0:16.9 | And we'll tell you the best we can what the answer is. |
| 0:21.0 | Because I've got 21 questions. |
| 0:23.6 | I've been 21 guessing you could teach me a lesson. |
| 0:28.3 | Call me curious. |
| 0:32.2 | Call me curious. |
| 0:34.2 | Call me curious. |
| 0:36.2 | So tell the truth. Hi everybody. |
| 0:52.1 | Hi, welcome to the show today. |
| 0:53.9 | I'm so happy that you're here. Okay, I'm going to warn you in advance. This episode gets personal. In fact, think about your most personal area. Yeah, that's what we're going to be talking about today. So welcome to our episode on sex toys. Look, sex toys are huge. Let me clarify. They're a 12 billion |
| 1:14.6 | a year industry in this country. Can you believe that? Unfortunately, this country was also founded |
| 1:20.0 | by Uptite Puritans, so anything having to do with S-E-X still makes us giggle and blush with shame. |
| 1:27.1 | All right, despite that, sex toys have penetrated mainstream culture, spicing things up in the sack, |
| 1:33.5 | no longer means putting on a disguise and skulking into some creepy, overlit store out by the airport to browse the aisles. |
| 1:40.2 | Now, pretty much every town has at least one-up-scale boutique that's so clean and couples-friendly that they look like an Apple store, except they're loaded with phallic-shaped devices and fun names like The Game Changer. |
| 1:54.0 | But look, not everyone is up for trying new things. |
| 1:57.4 | Maybe your partner is like the American folk hero John Henry, the steel-driving man who |
| 2:01.8 | despite his passionate work ethic was eventually replaced by a machine. Okay, so that's the |
| 2:07.8 | question here. Can sex toys help your sex life or harm it? We're going to find out today on |
| 2:16.0 | Call Me Curious. |
| 2:27.1 | But first, I'd like to bring someone on who may have penetrated this topic before my good friend, Mr. Malone. |
| 2:28.6 | Hi, Malone. |
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