‘Religious’ Sex Toys for Jews, Christians, & Muslims? You’d Be Surprised
- Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:10pm by
Billy Hallowell
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There are some wildly inaccurate misconceptions about sex and faith — that they’re incompatible and incongruous. Perhaps the misunderstanding comes from the fact that most religions view sex as something that should be enjoyed within specific confines and scenarios (i.e. marriage).
But before I continue, it’s important to acknowledge that the headline and subject matter of this article may be jolting to some of you. We’re here to spark a discussion about this intriguing topic and we assure you — there will be no explicit content in this piece. Ordinarily, we provide helpful links in our articles. Due to the graphic nature of the related materials, we won’t be doing that in this piece.
Now many people, regardless of their opinions on sex and religion, will likely be shocked to hear about the growing success and popularity of religious sex toys and products. There is no doubt that there is some controversy surrounding the subject. On one hand, there are those who believe that these tools can be marriage-savers; on the other, there are individuals who contend that the purchase and use of sex items “dirties” the inherent beauty of sex between a man and woman.
Those who produce and sell these products are in the first group, as they believe that they can be used to help strengthen marriages, while also assisting people in better enjoying sexual experiences. In a report by the Daily Beast, writer Allison Yarrow explains that those being targeted by entrepreneurs who sell these sex products are religious, married and straight.
Christians, Jews and Muslims are all part of the general audience that these items have been created for. There’s Kosher Sex Toys, a company designed for Orthodox Jews, and El Asira, a vender that markets to Muslims. And there are numerous sites — Book22, Hookin’ Up Holy and others — that are targeted at Christians.
A screen shot from the Kosher Sex Toys shop web site
David Ribner, a rabbi and a sex therapist in Israel, stands firmly behind these sites and services. “Religious people do it like everybody else,” says the faith leader (who is also a consultant for Kosher Sex Toys). “Why shouldn’t they have access to toys that make their lives more satisfying?”
Yarrow quotes “Joyce,” an evangelical Christian who claims her life has been revolutionized by these products. “I’m a Christian, but this is awesome,” she says of the products she discovered on Book22. “It was like being newlyweds again.” A screenshot from the web site she references (below) provides insight into some of the available items.
A screen shot from the Book22 web site (named after Song of Solomon)
Apparently, the industry is an up-and-coming hit among certain subsets of believers. Yarrow reports:
The burgeoning niche, part of the roughly $15 billion sex-toy industry, reports that business has been steadily growing, with most sites shipping a few hundred orders per month. Clients usually find them through Google, say the owners, or a thoughtful religious leader or astute sex therapist. The vendors use many of the same distributors as secular shops, with most products made in China. Gavriel, a 25-year-old furniture salesman who owns Kosher Sex Toys (and asked that we use only his middle name) stressed in an interview, “There’s nothing wrong with having all the sex you want.”
While the stated goals behind these products are said to be pious, there will likely be those among the religious who see the sale of sex toys for the faith community as inappropriate or, at the least, mildly offensive. Still, others, like Joyce, revere them as viable tools to assist married couples in better enjoying one another. You can read more about these intriguing religious “sex shops” over at the Daily Beast.
What do you think? Are religious sex toys appropriate for religious people? Take our poll, below:
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Comments (276)
Elena2010
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:52pmIf God made us male and female and pronounced it “very good,” why would religious people think sex is dirty in the first place. Only pagan beliefs that crept in as Christianity encountered the Roman world turned human sexuality on its head. If you say that Paul had a bug-a-boo abt sex, consider that he was a pastor writing to churches who did not come fm a Jewish tradition but rather a tradition of sex-as-worship.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:02pmSex is not dirty until you make it so by introduiucing porn, sex toys and other idiotic things into the bedroom to help your sick imagination. If you LOVED instead of LUSTED these things would not ever be nessasary.
Report Post »Norm D. Plume
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:20pmWho the hell said anything about “necessary”?
Maybe good Christians want a drawer full of sex toys for the purposes of, oh, I don’t know, HAVING FUN?
Report Post »DAVIDTHETANK
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:20pmTo BADDOGGY,
Report Post »I agree that porn is no good for marriage. But, I think your being way too legalistic and “Holier than thou” about using toys.
OniKaze
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:51pmI don’t care who you are, that right there is funny….
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:51pm.
Report Post »Was he holding a Sex Toy?………..
str8blues
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:51pmDid Alex Jones ever prove that Elvis was living in Costa Rica with Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole Smith? He said something about having seen Elvis’s hemoroids………..
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:38pmHow dare you defile the name of one of The Church of Perpetual Conspiracy archbishops. Ron Paul is the pope and Jesse Ventura is the other Archbishop. So watch yourself or you might get sent to a FEMA camp.
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:50pmWow DRAKKHANLORD— you must be cutting and pasting links like a madman! As I said at your last post….Your posts are a little off topic. Someone listens to too much Alex Jones…Unless you think it ties in because Alex saw Charlie Sheen’s Hernia, which is a little kinky.
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:49pmignorant peasants…enjoy your slavery.
Report Post »Paul -Indiana
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:28pmDepending on the sex of my fellow slaves, I just might.
Report Post »ArmyWifeNiz
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:47pmWOOOOOO!!! The website for Hookin’ Up Holy is crashed!! Way to go, Blaze!! Bow chica Wow wow..;)
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:04pmKinda like the State who has the most visits to pornographic sites is……..UTAH.
The sexually repressed religious people are a market that has yet to be pulled tapped(no pun intended).
Report Post »MidwestMomof3
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:58pmThat absolutely cracked me up!! Thanks Armywifeniz
Report Post »str8blues
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:47pmGo away Alex Jones cult member. Go waller in your conspiracies somewhere else. We don’t follow your loony links. Derrrrrrrr~!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:45pm.
Report Post »Who’s your girlfriend Madona?
Country
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:45pmAn inappropriate topic don’t you think? What’s say you Billy, are sex toys appropriate for religious couples? ha ha
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:57pmWhy Yes, my wife and I religiously have sex.
Report Post »FlamingFartSyndrome
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:44pmIf you never have used a sex toy on your significant other your missing out…
Report Post »chips1
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:40pmIt’s just not the same since it went from windup to batteries.
Report Post »FlamingFartSyndrome
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:44pm@ the people who voted for absolutely not
i feel bad for your wives
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:42pmA little off topic? Someone listens to too much Alex Jones…Unless it ties in because Alex saw Charlie Sheen’s Hernia, which is a little kinky.
Report Post »Battlecarrot
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:42pmRot in hell you damned bigoted bastard.
Report Post »Battlecarrot
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:40pmThey can’t even spell Divine correctly.“Devine””-who….?….Andy?
They’re just dressing up shtuping with angelic phraseolgy.God gave us all we need-just add LOVE.
Report Post »Thors Hammer
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:40pmGod said “go forth and multiply”. Maybe some of God’s children need a little help from time to time. So be it.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:40pm.
All I know forsure is, if the Preacher holds up a 12″ Glow in the Dark Vibrating ***** on Sunday Morning, and tells us this is the glue that keeps their marriage together…………….
I‘ll know for sure it’s all over…………
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:11pmAnd God said ,“Let the 12 inch ***** glow in the dark” and so it did. God saw what he had created, and saw that it was goooooooood……..really, really gooooooooooooooood.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:34pmsure why not?? absolutely not !!! and i am in the middle on this one really that is the best you could come up with for a answer, with the comedians on this site, it want be long until they start a comedy tour with answer c
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:34pmWell I suppose it depends on the religions.
The Moabites and Greeks had Temple Prostitutes. Were those religious sex toys?
COME ON BLAZE! THERE ARE PLENTY OF STORIES ABOUT SANTORUM TO BE POSTED.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:27pmI would like to know how a religious sex toy and a secular sex toy are different. Could you tell which was which if they were laying side by side?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:38pmI think one would have a towel laying over it. Other than that same.
Report Post »Pharmer1
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:42pmA so called “religious” sex toy probably refers to one which does not inherently violate the sex restrictions of a particular faith when it is deployed, employed, utilized, observed, worn, etc.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:45pmI think it has less to do with the tools and more to do with the license to use them.
A marriage license.
P.S.- A prostitute is NOT an authorized sex toy. And any sex toy that requires more than 2 people.
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:13pmDoes this site force you to show a marriage license before you purchase an item?
Report Post »Norm D. Plume
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:23pmMarriage license.
Oh. My. God.
You people believe that GOVERNMENT is your GOD.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:27pm.
Report Post »Anybody ever seen a Muslim Sex Toy? I think is a Rock tied to a stick………
mrsalvage2
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:31pmLOL I thought it was glass shardes
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:32pmInflatable camels perhaps?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:38pmBelieve it or not, muslim women buy a lot of “dirty” lingerie..etc because it’s expected of them by their husbands. This article seems to be suggesting that believers (yes even of the Mohammedan pedophile prophet) shouldn’t enjoy their sex lives? Ridiculous.
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:38pmTheir ‘Blow up’ dolls really do blow up.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:40pm.
Report Post »A sucide blow up doll priceless…………
shakedowncrews
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:41pmMuslim sexual toys…? would those be found in countries performing forced clitorectomies? I doubt it.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:20pmA pocket goat? How about a palm-sized sheep? “She love ewe long time.”
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:03pm@SPANKDAMONKEY It’s called a camel,dude
Report Post »Paul -Indiana
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 7:33pmPeople have overlooked the obvious. A Muslim sex toy is something for their child brides. Perhaps a coloring book, a lollypop, a Camel-riding Barbie, a balloon-like device to inflate. I’m sure that there are many alternatives.
Report Post »goofyfoot2001
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:25pmGood stuff. Would the programmer please fix his stupid comment sorting issue? Hey Fool!
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:24pmFunny how the pole, I mean POLL turned out!
Report Post »rich43068
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:24pmI’d do anything to keep my wife happy and her life less stressful!
Report Post »Doing the laundry or having diner ready for her is enough most of the time but I can see a need for more at times.
I still believe ‘don’t ask, don‘t tell’ was for everyone! I don’t need/want details!
Thanks!
commonsenseguy
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:39pmjust washing the dishes and having diner ready is usually enough, man i could only wish i had it that easy, dishes,dinner,laundry, shopping,mowing the yard,keeping the pets all day, but hey,that is a small price to pay for the only woman in the world who would put up with me,
Report Post »rich43068
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:05pmAmen!
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:21pmLol.
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