Sex Toy Glossary - wiki draft

Perhaps pulling out the description for an entry and popping it here may encourage a bit more debate about what should be included in it? (or an agreement that’s it’s already spot on)

What would get more people to engage with this glossary project? I’m open to any other ideas. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Good idea. I’ll quote it next time.

As to getting more people involved, havent a clue im afraid :woman_shrugging: . I have enough free time to fiddle with the wiki’s and enough coding experience to make it seem less daunting. Not everyone is in the same boat.

@Ian_Chimp and anyone else also helping (ps. Thank you)
Ive waded through all the entries and theres a few im not sure need to be in there. Any thoughts about the following

*Clitoral vibrator ( Covers a huge variety of toys. *Gendered, many vibes are also good for penis’.)
*Extra quiet vibrator (left over from shoo category. Not technically a toy)
*Fleshlight (brand, other people also make strokers etc. Is there a better word)
*Jelly vibrator (pretty sure none of us would ever recommend a jelly toy)
*Luxury vibrator (again, shop category)
*Medical fetish (not sure why this is here, shop category again)
*Mini vibrator (general, covers many things)
*O-ring (not 100% why this is here either. Does it need to be?)

I think we should define some of these things as people may search for them. So ‘Clitoral Vibrator’ could be something as simple as “A vibrator that can be used on the clitoris. Some are designed with a particular shape in mind, but actually, most vibrators can be used on the clitoris - and most clitoral vibrators can also be used on many other body parts, regardless of gender”

Maybe mini-vibrator could have a similar, generic definition?

I think ‘Jelly’ would need to be defined, though not necessarily jelly vibrator. Same for Glass, Silicone, etc.

O-Ring is a thing. :+1:

Less convinced by ‘extra quiet’, ‘luxury’ and ‘medical fetish’.

Edit: But… saying that, if that’s the language used in product descriptions then we should have an explainer in the glossary.

So ‘Luxury Vibrator/Toy’ could be “a description to make you think the toy is swisher than it might be” :slightly_smiling_face:

‘Whisper Quiet - a myth’

If we difine jelly, we need to define TPE/TPR, PVC, ABS, and all the others. Surely a seperate “sex toy materials” glossary/resource would be a better place to do this?

It would put them all next to each other, and generally make them less confusing to find?

At this stage I’d say put them all in here. We can subdivide later if it becomes too unwieldy, but a one-stop resource would be the ideal (in my mind at least :slightly_smiling_face:).

I’m thinking of linking relevent entries. So Glass would get an explainer, and then a bank of links at the bottom going to Silicone, TPE, etc

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Downside of this, many companies use brandnames for their basically TPE/TPR blends. Like cyperskin. Real feel, etc

Linking them all together might work

Navigation is going to be important, and I’ve got a few ideas on how to make that easier, but the main thing at this stage is getting the entries in, and the descriptions right.

I would say that each of those materials would get at least a stub that redirected them to ‘Real Feel’ or similar, where the full explainer is.

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Ian_Chimp , here is something missing from o-ring info . https://www.lovehoney.co.uk/bondage/nipple-clitoral-toys/nipple-suckers-pumps/p/basics-nipple-pump-set-6-piece/a29864g58028.html

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I’ve edited anal dildos and bondage candles and will have a look at a few of the others.

Some items to maybe add:

  • ABS Plastic
  • Hard Plastic (LH have started using this term, everything I can see so far is just abs so maybe it just needs a heading and a “see abs” tag)
  • TPE/TPR
  • Metal
  • PVC
  • Soft Plastic (unlike hard plastic, LH seem to be using this to be either TPE or PVC so needs its own heading I think)
  • Dual Density
  • Vibrating Masturbator (thinking things like the Manta, Pulse, part open/winged things for penises)

I’m happy to write some (or more) of these but if someone could do the formatting/pictures/etc for me I’d appreciate.

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I can do pictures/links no problem. I did shove penis vibrator in there somewhere. Not sure if vibrating stroker or as you suggested vibrating masotrbator mightn’t be a better choice though

Either works but I would say penis vibrator sounds more like the type that is a bit more static, like the ones that go on the head or the Hot Octopuss Jett. But that’s just my thought process. It’s really not easy to classify a lot of these things lol

Admittedly, that was what i was thinking of at the time when i put it in. The wing ones are more a stroker kind. And then you get all the vibrating fleshlight/tenga type toys

That’s brilliant, thank you. :slightly_smiling_face::+1:

Don’t worry about formatting, as @Green_Eyed_Girl says, someone else can do those bits. :+1: Though if you have the perfect toy example you can chuck the product name in for a bit of direction.

I may start using the contents lists as progress trackers too at some point, maybe with some :lh_heart_green: :lh_heart_yellow: :lovehoney_heart: colour coding to show how far along we think we are for an entry? I’ll mull it over as I’m adding the rest. :slightly_smiling_face:

I’ll also add in some section headers for the new entries you’ve suggested. :+1:

If it helps @Calie i wrote this blank entry (its also a wiki so you can just go into edit and copy the code)

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I would like to add sex cushions in here somewhere as theyr so useful and alot of people dont find them due to them being in the bondage section. Havent the foggiest what to call them though. Sex furniture? Positional aids? Sex positional cushion?
Any suggestions?

Ive also added blank entries for all the different sex toy materials @Calie mentioned

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Position enhancer I think? But that may be too generic. Sex Position Cushion maybe?

For the template I think I’d stick with just the description and leave the Start With and Read snippets for now, as I think they’re going to be updated with Category: (and Forum Search, linked entries, etc). And if we have Category at the bottom it’s not needed up at the start (we probably don’t need to push the shop links quite as hard).

I've done a draft template, but it's a bit ott so I've hidden it. 🙂 But you don't need a template to do the descriptions, so it's fine to carry on without it. 👍

## Entry Title

<div align="center">

[![product name|300x400](Lovehoney product photo)](product link)

Brief Description

<table>

| | |
- | - | -
Category: | [short name](link to shopping category)
More Info: | [guide name](link to most relevant guide)
Forum Search: | [search term](https://lovehoneyforum.com/search?q=SEARCH%20TERM)

</table>

[linked entry](section header link) | [linked entry](section header link) | [linked entry](section header link)

<small>[Back to A/B/C](letter section header link) </small>

***

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Bonza, will edit the template so its there if people want it.

Edit: right, done. Simpler basic template up now

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Does anyone know what the difference between an arab strap and a cock strap is? Because as far as i can see theyr basically two names for the same thing and its bugging me.

Technically I think an arab strap should also have a clitoral stimulating part but I think the terms are used a bit interchangeably these days. I would probably say arab strap doesn’t really need it’s own entry in any case

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