My mom and I share advice on what toys we like and sex toys are a common part of our conversations from time to time. However I would never discuss anything sexual with my father it would be way too weird. It's not that he would disapprove, I just wouldnt want him to know that personal aspect of me. He would probably just blush really bad and then make some sort of joke to try and make himself at ease.

If he ever visited me and found a butt plug I don't think he would even know what it is, he'd probably just pick it up and bring it to me with a quizzical look one his face and ask "what on earth is this?" less

I know this is an older thread but I had this happen to me the other day. I get a call at 11 am at work from my landlord that the water pipes to my bathtub are leaking into my downstairs neighbors apartment. She asks permission for the plumbers to go in without me being there. I tell her no and I'd be home at 1pm on my lunch break and they could go in then. She doesn't tell me but she declares it an emergency and lets the plumbers in anyway. I get home at one and there are two male plumbers in my bathroom with a majority of my sex toy collection air drying all over the bathroom counter (my counter looked like a freaking porcupine). I'm in shock and embarrassed I stammer something about testing and reviewing trying to make it sound clinical and scientific. Then one of the plumbers goes "Is that that Eden Fantasy thing? My wife does that. It's great." Then he starts looking over my collection and asking for suggestions. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. less

Here's a "sort of" - not long ago my house was burgled, and burglars will take boxes that are either locked or difficult to open in the off chance that they'll have something interesting in them. I guess they found "something interesting" (or their fence did) in one of the boxes - fortunately it wasn't the bulk of the toys.

Something to keep in mind when choosing your toy case, I suppose. less

No one has found mine.. and probably wont

BUT, I showed all my toys to my mom BC I was excited. So I have like the complete opposite response to this post. My dad order a cock ring for me BC I don't have a credit card. My mom knows I'm poly but I haven't told my dad yet, so I dunno how he would react if he found a penis shaped item in my room. But, I would not fear I would tell him then I guess. then maybe a positive thing he might let me to use his credit card to buy something penis shaped.

My mom has read all my reviews and is helping me to edit them. I gave her my sex instruction books to read, she enjoys them and I'm glad that she is benefiting from it. So I dunno I don't really fear if someone finds out I'm open about sexuality if they see my toys so what. I do want to get a bookcase to display my books that I have and I would love it if people saw them and asked me about them but no one really comes to my dads house so that is not possible. I've talked to people about weirder things than sex and sex toys. Sex is something I wish I could ask people about more for honest opinions and views as I would like to learn, and not feel like a total loser when I ask it. But, people usually take it the wrong way as I tend to ask really strange questions sometimes that not many people could answer.

My response to this post is quite opposite when it comes to parents. I'm kind of glad I have it set up this way with them.

Let me close with this...
I feel sex toys are comparable to a tool you have in your house, like scissors it's used to aid in cutting, a sex toy is a tool simply used to aid in sexual satisfaction and enjoyment.

Without scissors some thing we might never be able to open. Without sex toys we might never reach satisfaction because sometimes for some people it's not possible to experience orgasm without them.

Let me ask you this would you refuse to use scissors if you could not open something? Probably not.
Do you think you could live without orgasm? Maybe for a bit but I think you'd want them back.

A sex toy is just another tool we keep around the house. I feel that I should not feel embarrassed for having a broom, can opener, sex toy or some sort of tool.

I hope this tool thing makes sense to everyone. less

Well, we've been lucky.. except when we moved. I'm a Northerner, my husband's from the Midwest- we weren't used to the niceties of some of these "southern" people. Our new townhome, our neighbors came right out introducing themselves. They got their sons to come help us unpack everything (we had just spent 12 hours loading everything into the truck and it was now 10 pm). Their oldest moved a box labeled "toys", he figured it was a box for my son until it opened (my husband did a piss poor job closing it).. he blushed SO damn badly, then said, "Um, I'm going to put this in the bathroom" and very quietly left it in there. Did I mention this was a Christian family? The husband was a minister... less