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to re-educate your brain and help you live your best-to-love life. And I'm your host,

Ford Certified Female Urologist, Dr. Casperson.

Okay, you guys, we are back with Jen Mason, owner of Wink, wink, wink, which is the sex boutique in my town, and she has so much knowledge about all the things sex-related.

Like, this woman combines, like, psychology, sexuality, biology, biology, like, all of the things things and is just so curious and engaging that I

can't help but do another podcast with her because we are in her shop today and we are talking

all about sex toys. So sex toys, oh my gosh, there is just this big stigma about sex toys of

like, I'm not the person, I don't use sex toys, right? Or like people have all these beliefs about sex toys of like I'm not the person I don't use sex toys right or like people

have all these beliefs about sex toys so can you give us an overview just like what's the point

of sex toys yeah I mean sex toys are they're toys they're supposed to be fun and they are an

accessory to the sex and intimacy that you're having.

So I say they're kind of like spices when you're cooking.

It's like you can cook a meal and not use any spices or you can cook a meal and just use

the salt and pepper you've used your whole life.

But there are other options and it may be fun to add in some spices every once in a while

or to, you know, add in

oregano every time you cook. And so sex toys are just a, they're just an added thing to our

play and they're just sensations. They help our bodies to experience different sensations that

aren't provided in other ways. And I think going back, like, just to ground, you know, the

conversation for people is like to go back to like, the point of sex and sexual intercourse is

pleasure, you know, and if we come back to what the whole point of this is, is you don't need to

use any toys if you don't want to. You don't need to use a certain type of toy. There's no rules about this. It's all about

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