Lifestyle Editor Says Parents Should Buy Sex Toys For Their Kids

ashley.rae | January 2, 2018
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If you’re looking to get a head start on your 2018 Christmas shopping, the lifestyles editor at the United Kingdom’s Metro paper wants you to consider buying your children sex toys.

Ellen Scott’s article, which was named both “Why you should buy your teenage kids sex toys" and “Why you should buy your kids sex toys” according to an archived version of the story, claims that unless you buy your 11-year-olds sex toys, they may feel shame surrounding sex and be unable to understand how to have fulfilling sex lives.

Scott’s article claims that if you want to be a good parent, it’s up to you to buy sex toys for your young children:

But as a parent, it’s your responsibility to make sure your children’s entirely normal exploration of their sexuality is safe, healthy, enjoyable, and in their own hands. You can do that by buying your children their own sex toys.

Scott recommends buying a “masturbation sleeve or a little vibrating bullet when your child” (emphasis added) if they have expressed an interest in sex.

The author draws from her own experiences as a child, suggesting that if her parents had bought her a vibrator when she was younger, she wouldn’t have had bad sexual experiences with various partners as an adult:

If I’d had a sex toy and been given the essential ‘here’s the deal with masturbation’ chat that came with it, perhaps I would have learned about orgasms and my own body a lot more quickly. Perhaps I wouldn’t have gone on to have disappointing sex with no way to express what I needed.

Scott suggests explaining to your children—in explicit detail—different ways to masturbate. Scott claims it’s your duty as a parent to explain it to your 11-year-old child (or younger):

As sex education barely mentions pleasure, it falls on parents to bring it up – and to bring it up early. Masturbation is the only truly safe form of sex, and the type of sex that’s legal and healthy for people to enjoy at a young age. Parents should be encouraging it, rather than pretending it isn’t happening. And your encouragement of masturbation should include a total eradication of shame and awkwardness around having a wank, alongside education of how it works.

Buy your child a beginner’s sex toy for the purposes of masturbation. When? Probably earlier than you think – anecdotally, I’ve heard of a lot of people masturbating for the first time at age 11 – but you should be able to chat to your children and suss out if sexual pleasure is even on their mental radar. Buy them the sex toy and give it to them – or take them along to pick out their own – and explain that whenever they’re curious and want to try things out, they’re completely free to use their own sex toy.

For parents who may not like the idea of explaining masturbation in detail (this article spares some of the more vulgar information), Scott claims this is a reflection of parents not wanting their kids to be healthy and enjoy themselves:

Do you not want your children to masturbate, ever? Do you want them to have an unsatisfying sex life? Don’t you want to make sure they explore what makes them feel good in a healthy, safe way? We need to be talking about masturbation with our children. Handing them a sex toy so they can do their own experimenting is an easy way to start the conversation.

Unless you’re buying your children masturbation aids and scarring them for life by graphically explaining how you’ve masturbated growing up, Scott wants to let you know she thinks you’re a bad parent.

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