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The Names We Give Our Toys

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Contributor: Chilipepper Chilipepper
Okay, I admit it - I named my cheap lipstick vibe the 'Sonic Lipstick' in honor of Sarah Jane Smith's all-purpose sonic tool in the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. Mulder now has the habit of asking me, 'Did you bring your Sonic Lipstick, Scully?'

Anybody else name their toys or had their toys named by sig-others when referencing particular ones? Or named them just for the hell of it?
04/09/2010
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Contributor: Tuesday Tuesday
I've only named one toy - Lone Star. I call him Mahib. I have the caramel version. An Arab name is in keeping with my unfulfilled fantasy of being with an Arab man. Mahib means "magnificent" in Arabic. This toy is too beautiful not to name.
04/09/2010
Contributor: Kynky Kytty Kynky Kytty
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Originally posted by Chilipepper
Okay, I admit it - I named my cheap lipstick vibe the 'Sonic Lipstick' in honor of Sarah Jane Smith's all-purpose sonic tool in the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. Mulder now has the habit of asking me, 'Did you bring ... more
The only name I gave to a toy was 'Verdure'. It literally means verdancy, but it's a French play on words with 'Vert' and 'Dur', meaning Green and Hard. I did not really hard on it, it just happened. Maybe some cool name will come up and I'll be able to name another one.

The named toy is the green Dinky Digger.
04/09/2010
Contributor: Sammi Sammi
I don't usually call them by name, unless they come with a name already. So Randy is Randy and Chester is Chester, but my bullet is just my bullet.

You have me realizing, though, that I have a lot that come with people names
04/09/2010
Contributor: Backseat Boohoo Backseat Boohoo
I never thought about it, but some of my toys have garnered names. My Lelo Gigi is always referred to as "Gigi My Love," even by people other than me. The Hitachi Magic Wand is "Grandma Hitachi" (joke from my sex toys comic Vibeland, which I miss making!), and my Turbo Glider is "Old Faithful." All of my friends have an "Old Faithful," though, so I don't know if that one even counts.
04/09/2010
Contributor: Miss Cinnamon Miss Cinnamon
I... don't really name my toys beyond their given names. Not very creative, I know That used to be the way I named my stuffed animals, too. If a toy in specific didn't have its own name, I'd look at its care tag and name it after its manufacturer
04/10/2010
Contributor: Sir Sir
Nothing of mine has a name. I take it out, use it, abuse it, and that's it. I'll call it whatever it is: vibrator, flogger, riding crop, paddle. They have names, generally, given by the companies, but aside from that, not particularly, no.
04/10/2010
Contributor: TitsMcScandal TitsMcScandal
I'll use the names given to them, Ina, Gigi, etc.

I'll give descriptors to the rest, 'my little vibe', 'purple love', etc. Makes it easier when I want the Man to get something because we have too many bullets/vibes for him to know which one to get if it isn't given a separate name caller.
04/10/2010
Contributor: Carrie Ann Carrie Ann
We call the Liberator Wedge and Ramp the "fuckin' thingy" and the "big fuckin' thingy". I call Benjamin Bond "benjy". We call the Pfun Plug "the" plug. But otherwise, I'm boring. No made up names.

Though now I may have to make it a point to be more creative.
04/10/2010
Contributor: Adriana Ravenlust Adriana Ravenlust
I do not name my toys like that. -blink-
04/11/2010
Contributor: Miss Cinnamon Miss Cinnamon
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Originally posted by Carrie Ann
We call the Liberator Wedge and Ramp the "fuckin' thingy" and the "big fuckin' thingy". I call Benjamin Bond "benjy". We call the Pfun Plug "the" plug. But otherwise, I'm boring. No made up ... more
"fuckin' thingy" and "big fuckin' thingy" cracked me up!

What I wonder is--if the toy doesn't already have a gender-specific name--how does one determine what gender that toy is? I have some dildos, bullets, etc. that seem more masculine than feminine, and vice versa. I'm not exactly sure how I "decide", but sometimes it's obvious, like the Lovemoiselle Elodie. I've also got some pretty gender-ambiguous toys that I just off-handedly refer to as "it" and then feel bad about it later. * ponders *
04/12/2010
Contributor: EffinSara EffinSara
T calls all battery-powered clitoral vibes "Buzzbuzz". The Little Flirt gets called "the little plug". Babelube is called "lazylube". There must be more, I just can't think of them at the moment.
04/12/2010
Contributor: Naughty Student Naughty Student
For me I would say I am the same as Sir.

I call my toys according to there function and color/material for example, "blue vibe" or "Glass g-spot dildo" etc.

If I have a toy that is extremely popular such as a pfun plug, or Ella I would call it by its name, but other wise I stick to the simple stuff. I am VERY boring.

I have a feeling though that a new toy I have reviewed will be here on forward called my "light saber" as my man so eloquently describes it, lol.
04/12/2010
Contributor: ~LaUr3n~ ~LaUr3n~
I don't name my toys other than what they are already named. "Rombee", "Jezel", etc.
04/12/2010
Contributor: Gary Gary
This thread has made me realize that I should name all of my Fleshlights!
04/12/2010
Contributor: Victoria Victoria
We call our Wedge "The thing" too, and Gary refers to any lube as "sex grease"...which I HATE...and I think that is exactly why he calls it that. Other than that, I say stuff like "my buzzy thing" or "my favorite". Very inside-jokey stuff that is subject to change depending on which buzzy thing happens to be a fave at the moment.
04/12/2010
Contributor: Airen Wolf Airen Wolf
(EF Review Program Mentor)
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Originally posted by Victoria
We call our Wedge "The thing" too, and Gary refers to any lube as "sex grease"...which I HATE...and I think that is exactly why he calls it that. Other than that, I say stuff like "my buzzy thing" or "my ... more
OMG that's funny..."sex grease". I have Bob, he is the Classic Dong Royal by Doc Johnson. He got christened Bob when I was packing one day for a trip and Sigel picked it up and waggled it at me and asked wickedly "What about Bob?" He calls my vibes "Your buzzy thingy" and my dildos "My fuck toys". Arch just calls them "My best friends". But Bob has his own name...
04/23/2010
Contributor: Liz2 Liz2
I just use their names, if they have one. I usually have some toys ready and lubed prior to a sexual encounter and I just might say "will you grab the large dil?" Nothing cute but it works.
04/23/2010
Contributor: AU AU
One of my first toys may have been named by my partner, it was called "Mr. Purple". It was a large purple dong. We made many memories together, that dong and I. More recently, we have various words to describe a few toys, but they aren't really names. I try to avoid human-sounding names for objects now. I found the combination of Mr. Purple's name and realism (well, as realistic as I get toys) a little odd and uncomfortable.
07/24/2010
Contributor: Alicia Alicia
We don't name everything and they're usually called things that make it really hard. Like my husband calls it stuff like "the good lube" ...but his favorite is different than mine so it's usually "oh the pink water?" and he'll go "no! the good stuff, the other stuff" and one of my glass toys he'll call "the good one" because it's our favorite. That's just how we are with a lot of stuff though lol we call stuff "the thing" "that thingy" stuff like that, we're not good with words :-P
07/24/2010
Contributor: Avant-garde Avant-garde
I name my toys after female AI in sci fi shows such as Romni, Viki and Amee
07/24/2010
Contributor: P'Gell P'Gell
I make up names for everything and everybody, even if they already have names. Our Boss Lady Vibe (Fun Factory) is "Big Pink" and Big Pink is a dude. (I somehow just can't think if it as a "lady.") our Wahl is "That Infernal Machine" or "The Mixmaster" etc. We just call lube "Lube."

We have an old realistic vibe of indeterminate material (but it smells funny, so I don't use it without a condom) and My Man calls it "The Old One" because we've had it so long. Not too imaginative, but he's the practical one. I call it "The stinky one."

Funny story, we bought some liquid shower gel at Aldi (A really inexpensive grocery store) and we took a bath together while he was using it, and he started laughing and said, "What does this soap smell like?" It smelled JUST LIKE "The Old One" vibe. We called that soap, "dildo soap" until we ran out. (My Man calls ALL sex toys Dildos, for some reason, he likes the word.) What the hell did they put into both a sex toy AND body soap that smells identical?
07/24/2010
Contributor: fishytwo fishytwo
I'm not big on naming things, but one day my boyfriend asked me if I had named my vibe. It came with a name, ...which I cannot remember at the moment...but it isn't a name I'm particularly taken with. We got into a discussion about it when I said that I hadn't named it, and hadn't even thought about it, but perhaps I should. We're long distance right now, so it seemed sensible to give it a name (like a codename! lol). I assumed it would have a female name, because it looks quite feminine, but the bf thought that was weird and wanted a male name. In the end we decided a gender-neutral name was necessary, so we named her Shannon. (I obviously give it a female designation still. I don't know if the bf still thinks it's male...I'll have to ask.)
07/27/2010
Contributor: fishytwo fishytwo
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Originally posted by Victoria
We call our Wedge "The thing" too, and Gary refers to any lube as "sex grease"...which I HATE...and I think that is exactly why he calls it that. Other than that, I say stuff like "my buzzy thing" or "my ... more
sex grease...hahahaha. I'm never mentioning that term to my bf because he will most certainly use it...
07/27/2010
Contributor: Alan & Michele Alan & Michele
Alan calls my O2 Revolution the "Blue Mammoth," but other than that we don't name them. Sometimes I use their factory names (like the Sqweel or the Booty) but he's bad at remembering what they're supposed to be called anyway. It's more like "Let's play with that purple thing we got last week," or "Grab the blue dick next to the little pink one."
07/27/2010
Contributor: Fearsome Fearsome
Some of these are good!
I have one toy named, my O2 Niagara 'Corinthian' (like the way of acting, sort of devil-may-care, not the place, person or columns)
08/06/2010
Contributor: MsTryska MsTryska
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Originally posted by Chilipepper
Okay, I admit it - I named my cheap lipstick vibe the 'Sonic Lipstick' in honor of Sarah Jane Smith's all-purpose sonic tool in the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. Mulder now has the habit of asking me, 'Did you bring ... more
lol - our names don't go much beyond..."the pink one" sometimes referred to as "the b*tchdick", or my big brown one ("the big-boy toy") or the "little black vibe" or "my pink vibe". Sorry - not very creative.
08/22/2010
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
Only some of them have names, but my favorites are:
Elvis
Barry (White)
Luther (Vandross) I, II, III
The Unicorn Horn
08/22/2010
Contributor: Gatita Gatita
Never thought to name them, but my husband has taken to calling a huge life-like dildo I have, A-Rod. Not sure I like that, since I'm a Jeter Fan. LOL
08/22/2010
Contributor: Kinkyquing Kinkyquing
Of the three toys I've had so far, I only named one. I named the dildo that came with the New Comer's Kit 'Maxwell', after Maxwell Demon from Velvet Goldmine, due to his nice purple colour.
08/26/2010