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Toxins
in Sexual Products
Heated
Debates, Myths & More
All
of our Products are Phthalate & Paraben Free
When we
first started Holistic Wisdom, Inc. we did so with the intention
of selling quality products with an emphasis on education and
empowerment regarding holistic health and sexuality. As our
involvement in sexual politics became increasingly active we
became concerned that there was no one regulating the safety
of sex toys. We began doing more and more research into the
topic of potential toxins in sex toys and found an absolute
mess in the mainstream media about them.

By
Lisa S. Lawless, Ph.D.
Psychotherapist & Sexuality
Expert
CEO & Founder of
Holistic Wisdom, Inc. & NAASAS

Copyright © Holistic Wisdom, Inc.
As
you will read it can be very confusing to know what is safe and what
is not. Since our opening in June 2000, we have always been focused
on health. We were the first company to ban toxic sex toys and lubricants
from our site and are the dominant leader in the industry in educating
the public about this important issue.
In
all of our research, we uncovered web sites and adult stores that
were making all types of errors in the information they were providing
consumers. Some of them were either not saying anything or were incorrect.
We simply want to let you know what we have uncovered and what we
have done about it so that you can have peace of mind about your choices
when it comes to sexual health products.
Non-Toxic
Sex Toys
The
Need For Proper Care & Storage

Even
if sex toys are not toxic they can cause chemical reactions when used
and/or stored with other sex toys (depending on the materials). This
can also happen when a sex toy is used with inappropriate lubricants
for a sex toy's material type .
That is why we provide educational articles and information on each
product page so that you know what material the product is made out
of, how to store it and what lubricant you should use with it.
If
you have questions about any product you have or desire to purchase
from us, please feel free to contact us as we are happy to assist
you. Please note that all of the products we sell are free of toxins
such as phthalates, lead, and parabens.
Below
are pictures of sex toys that have literally melted by simply being
stored together (over a period of 3 and 5 months while stored in mason
jars). This is why we highly recommend sex
toy storage bags to keep sexual products separated and protected.
Please note that nothing was added to these sex toys when placed in
the mason jar and the photos below have not been altered. The liquid
you see is from the chemical interaction between the sex toys which
caused them to melt. This is why so many of our products are made
with 100% silicone as silicone does not melt like this even when placed
with other silicone sex toys.

Photos Provided
with Permission from: DangerousLilly.com

Melted
Sex Toys Shown At Five Months
Five
Examples of Toxins in Sexual Products
Found in
many personal lubricants.

Learn more about Parabens
in Personal Lubricants
Learn
more about Phthalates in Sex Toys
Found in
sexual products such as dildos and vibrators as well as some
fragranced products.

Common Myth: that you can tell by the 'new car' smell,
however, phthalates do not have a scent and cannot be detected
by smell.

Health Risks: Endocrine disrupters that have been linked
to - diabetes, breast cancer, reduced sperm count, ADHD, liver
damage, insulin resistance, metabolic interference (contributing
to obesity), asthma and allergies, premature breast development
in girls, abnormal genital development in males (small penis,
undescended testicles), autism and low birth weight in infants.
Found in
sexual products such as sex toy cleaners, genital hygiene products.
Commonly found in many antibacterial and antifungal products.

Health Risks: Endocrine disrupters that have been linked
to - allergies, creating bacterial resistance, abnormal thyroid
functioning, disrupts normal growth. When combined with chlorine
in tap water, it forms chloroform which has been linked to cancer.
Found in
sexual products such as dildos and vibrators with latex paints,
sex toy cleaners in the form of liquid soaps and cosmetics.

Health
Risks: Irritation of mucous membranes of the throat, nose
and eyes. Heavy exposure through breathing it, getting it on
your skin or eating it can lead to pulmonary edema, metabolic
acidosis, hypotension, hemolysis, and coma.
Found in
sexual products such as glass dildos and vibrators.
Health
Risks: Causes damage to the nervous system, stunted growth
and delayed development. It can also cause kidney damage.
Not
Easy To Determine What Is Toxic
One of the
challenges regarding the issue of toxins in sex toys is the
desire of the general public to lump a type of toy into a toxic
or not toxic category in any situation. For example, many people
are now saying that anything that is considered a jelly
sex toy is toxic. However, the truth is that not all jelly
sex toys are toxic. It depends on what materials were used to
create the "jelly" sex toy and how it was constructed.
One of the issues is that there is not a set way that
jelly sex toys are made or what materials are used to consistently
make them. Then, when you throw in brands such as Jel-Lee ,
it is even more difficult to know what you are dealing with.
Determining
how products are made and what is in them is nearly impossible
for customers to do, and thus, why we felt we needed to do that
work for you. The reason it is impossible for consumers to determine
is because the manufacturers of the products do not list all
the materials used to make them or the process in which they
were made on or in the product packaging.
Therefore,
you would have to depend on the adult store you purchase them
from to inform you and good luck getting accurate information
with most of them. Most likely you will get a response from
them that provides little to no information or scare tactics
to talk you into extremely expensive sex toys. The truth is
there are many choices of safe sex toys that range from low
to high in cost.
You can
try referring to web sites that have quick lists that most likely
will tell you that ALL jelly style sex toys are toxic and full
of phthalates (toxic plasticizers
used to soften PVC vinyls) but as mentioned, that would not
necessarily be true. Some Jelly style products are not made
with phthalates such the Basix
style dildos.
Smell
Does Not Always Indicate Toxicity
Another
issue is the smell factor. Generally, it has been said that you can
smell some toxins through what is commonly referred to as that 'new
shower curtain smell. What some experts are claiming is that it is
the smell of poisonous chemicals that are off-gassing from the PVC.

However,
that does not mean that it is always unsafe if you smell something
and it does not mean that all sex toys that smell are toxic.
Phthalates for example, may not have a smell, yet are considered
toxic. Some phthalates have more odor than others and different
odors at that and it is difficult to base determining if something
has phthalates based on merely smelling it.
For example,
the material used in the Clone
A Willy & Make Your Own Dildo Kits is a polymer that
is safe, however, it initially has a smell to it until it
is completely dry. It does what is called off-gassing, which
is not an indicator of toxicity. However, many may
think because it has a smell that it is toxic. In truth, it
is the Amine within it ( a type of digestible drug that is
used in condoms and the bags that are used today for breast
implants) that makes it smell initially until it is done off-gassing.
A recent study
released by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
on shower curtains received a great deal of media attention, which
in turn gave erroneous information about phthalates. It was not
shocking that they found phthalates in the shower curtains, as phthalate
esters are a key ingredient in soft vinyl (often found in shower
curtains). The error was in saying that it is the phthalates that
cause the smell when in fact, phthalates can in be in some cases
near odorless. Even more interesting was that the CHEJ failed to
detect phthalates off-gassing from the shower curtains in its lab
test. The other issue in this study that was overlooked, is that
phthalate exposure levels can vary and shower curtains and reports
show that those in the U.S. are well within safe levels, as verified
by data from the U.S. Government Centers for Disease Control.
Sex
Toys Require Extra Precautions
Of course regarding
the matter of sex toys, there is still not much information available
in the mainstream media and thus caution should be exercised considering
that most sex toys come into contact with some of the most porous
parts of our bodies. This would make absorption of toxins quite
easy and is why we ensure that products sold on our web sites are
all considered within the safe zones that we have outlined through
our research.
Lubricants are
another issue that many people do not think about, let alone massage
oils, creams and other products that are absorbed by the skin. It
is why we carry a limited array of lubricants and related products
as we are strict about what they can have in them.

For example,
when a study was released asserting that Benzocaine (found in most
sexual desensitizers) can cause irregular heartbeats and even death
we pulled those products from our site and posted articles about
it. While the study showed that it mainly involved leaving the creams
on the skin for long periods of time or on large portions of their
bodies, we felt that due to the fact that the creams are put into
highly absorptive parts of the body that we would not carry them
unless they had less than 7.5% as seen in the System
Jo desensitizer . You will find that most adult stores still
carry many of those products with no warnings to consumers about
them.
Sex
Toy Stores Typically In The Dark
Most people
who work for sex toy stores do not know what are in sex toys and
are often in the dark about what makes something toxic. Because
sex toys are not regulated (they fall under novelties rather than
medical devices by FDA classifications) many in the adult industry
do not know what sex toys are made of (as the materials are often
not listed on or in the packaging). Often the companies that do
claim to be knowledgeable are making blanket statements as to whether
a type of product is safe or not.

We have seen
other web sites stating information that is simply not true based
on the scientific research that is available. For example, some
are claiming that if a sex toy is not 100% silicone then it is toxic.
This is not necessarily true, as it depends on what other ingredients
the manufacturer added to the silicone.
There simply
needs to be more long term research to truly make some of the claims
people are making about adult products at this point. It is irresponsible
to become an extremist in either direction on this topic. As we
researched for our own resources, we found that many web sites had
inaccurate or misleading information. This was not only frustrating
for us as we sorted through months of research, but it was alarming
that many of these web sites were making false claims and / or blanket
statements about toxins in sex toys in such a manner that an unsuspecting
consumer would simply swallow these things as the truth.
What
Holistic Wisdom Is Doing About Sex Toy Safety
There are so
many questions that customers have about what is safe and what is
not so, we have and are continuing to provide research to help with
the most up to date information. However, because it can be confusing
enough just to pick out a sex toy, we decided to go completely nontoxic
as well as green rather than make customers have to go through all
of our research just to select a safe product.
Our hope is
to raise the bar on this issue of sex toy safety and to provide
truthful, responsible information to consumers. We have gone straight
to the manufacturers as well as consulted with multiple chemists
to find out about every sex toy we carry. We have researched each
product to determine what it is constructed of and if it falls under
what we know to be safe. We have also decided that until there is
more information on some of the questionable materials, we are going
to err on the side of caution and refuse to carry products that
contain them.
We avoid brining
on any questionable products (which could not be verified as safe
and nontoxic sex toys) in addition to providing recycling information
on the materials in the products we sell. We are also a green company
that practices what we preach when it comes to helping the environment
and empowering people about their health.
We have done
this so that those who visit our stores can feel comfortable knowing
that no matter what they purchase, it is safe for them to use. After
all, having peace of mind when it comes to sexual health is what
we specialize in. Sex should be relaxing, fun, pleasurable and we
want to make that as easy as possible for you to enjoy. If you have
any questions or feedback about this article, please feel free to
contact us as we are happy to hear
from our readers.
We
have also founded a professional education association that
helps raise the bar for everyone that works in the field
of sexuality - the National Association for the Advancement
of Science & Art in Sexuality- NAASAS

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