SexToysDb.com is not an "adult novelty store". We do not in fact sell any products at all on our site.

This site instead is an educational resource and compendium that catalogues the human interest in sensual play and alternate forms of sexual expression. Perhaps you should think of us as an Encylopedia of the Erotic (though those two terms do not usually go well together).

Why, you may ask, is such a thing needed?

Well, for starters, humans have sex. Most of them anyway. Without that we wouldn't have lasted for generation after generation. So and so begat so and so and here you are as a result. And despite all those centuries of practice, contemporary society is at once increasingly prudish and perverse.

The laws governing the so called adult industry grow more rigid all the time. Did you know for example that if someone is selling an adult video they had nothing to do with making (think of your local video store), they have to have copies of all the releases from everyone in the film, and are considered Secondary Producers of the film? It is not hard to tell that these laws were put in place to make life harder on adult stores.

At the same time that the legal framework of our society grows more strict, driven in large part by the Christian lobby with its prudish and terrible agenda, the society itself is growing with exponential complexity, with new forms of perversion and expression flowering at a hyperaccelerated pace.

But all this seeming change is perhaps nothing new under the sun. If you read Seutonius' Lives of the Caesars, or something by the Marquis de Sade, you'll see that our new sins are perhaps less dramatic than we might wish. And so, this site aims to pull together the history of various erotic practices, to collect and examine what we humans have explored about our bodies and our minds, how we have sought to achieve fleeting pleasure or lasting satisfaction in our little lives.

So, the short answer to what we at SexToysDB.com do and why we do it is precisely that, looking at what we as a species do in our private moments, and why we believe doing it in this way is a good idea.

When one thinks of adult sex toys what usually comes to mind is something made of rubber or leather that you might wear or plug into the wall during a sensual encounter. You'll of course find that discussed here. We have an exhaustive library about all types of devices for sexual stimulation from handcuffs to feather dusters.

What you'll also find though are items relating to the full spectrum of erotic playtime activities serving both the body and the mind. We have sections related to erotic literature and art for example, from classical painting through the latest plastic Anime statues.

We'll help you explore the wide world of sexual alternatives so that if you aren't really sure what you are into, you can spend time seeing what others are doing, from foot fetishists to furries and back again.

Life is all too short, and the world far too full of wonderful things to lead a narrow life. Relax, and have some fun along the way.