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Accessible Sex Toys: Pleasure for Disabled People & Those with Limited Mobility - Sh! Women's Store

Accessible Sex Toys: Pleasure for Disabled People & Those with Limited Mobility

Do you find it tricky to reach your pleasurable bits, grip a vibrator for an orgasm-inducing length of time, or hold a weighty sex...
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Sex Toy Review: SVibe Gizi Duo Double-Ended Couples Vibrator - Sh! Women's Store

Sex Toy Review: SVibe Gizi Duo Double-Ended Couples Vibrator

"Hiya, are you planning to, or would you be able to, stock the newest product in the Snail Vibes selection - the Snail Gizi...
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The Best Grinder Sex Toys for Hands-Free Fun - Sh! Women's Store

The Best Grinder Sex Toys for Hands-Free Fun

Most of us start our journey to self-pleasuring by exploring our bodies, including our genitals, when we’re very young. This is developmentally normal and...
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Sex Toy Review: Nymph Clit-Licking Wheel Rabbit - Sh! Women's Store

Sex Toy Review: Nymph Clit-Licking Wheel Rabbit

Have you ever fantasised about designing a sex toy? Like, creating a toy that ticks all your boxes? My imagination has never stretched as...
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Travelling With Sex Toys - Can You Take Toys on a Plane? - Sh! Women's Store

Travelling With Sex Toys - Can You Take Toys on a Plane?

We get asked for advice about travelling with sex toys and how to best get them safely through security quite a bit. And no...
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The Joy of Novelty Sex Toys - Sh! Women's Store

The Joy of Novelty Sex Toys

The beauty of a so called novelty sex toy is in the clit of the beholder. Well, unless their favourite pleasure spot alternates with...
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Top Sex Trends To Explore This Year - Sh! Women's Store

Top Sex Trends To Explore This Year

The world of sex is evolving, and we are always excited to discover new toys, new positions and all sorts of excellent tips &...
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Recycling Sex Toys - Sh! Women's Store

Recycling Sex Toys

We often get emails and queries from customers keen to do their bit for the environment when it comes to offloading old vibrators and...
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How To  Clean Your Sex Toys Box - Sh! Women's Store

How To Clean Your Sex Toys Box

Spring has finally arrived and if you are anything like us, you'll be ready to welcome the warmer weather by getting rid of the...
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Same Day Sex Toy Delivery in London - Sh! Women's Store

Same Day Sex Toy Delivery in London

Hey babes, thanks for stopping by this page! We're sorry to say the company we used to offer same-day sex toy deliveries in London...
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The Best Vegan Sex Toys - Sh! Women's Store

The Best Vegan Sex Toys

Veganism is more accessible than ever; the familiar green V logo helps identify food items suitable for vegetarians and vegans. It's becoming increasingly popular,...
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A New Year With Fun New Resolutions - Sh! Women's Store

A New Year With Fun New Resolutions

Happy New Year, babes! A new year is full of promises and fresh beginnings. It's a time to wave goodbye to the previous year...
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Guide to Sex Toy Materials: Plastic - Sh! Women's Store

Guide to Sex Toy Materials: Plastic

Plastic is a sleek sex toy material that delivers strong vibrations. Two different kinds of plastic are used in sex toy manufacturing: Standard plastic...
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Guide to Sex Toy Materials: Elastomer, TPR & TPE - Sh! Women's Store

Guide to Sex Toy Materials: Elastomer, TPR & TPE

Elastomer is a soft, safe sex toy material without phthalates. The word elastomer comes from two terms:  'Elastic' - describing the material's quality to...
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How to Use a Stainless Steel Metal Sex Toy - Sh! Women's Store

How to Use a Stainless Steel Metal Sex Toy

Stainless steel sex toys are stunningly beautiful to look at and incredibly erotic to play with. Toys made from stainless steel aren't cheap, but...
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Phthalates in Sex Toys - Sh! Women's Store

Phthalates in Sex Toys

Phthalates (pronounced "thall-eights") are a family of chemicals that are used to soften plastic in things like shower curtains. They are also used as...
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Guide to Sex Toy Materials: Jelly - Sh! Women's Store

Guide to Sex Toy Materials: Jelly

Firstly, we don't stock sex toys made from jelly material. We decided to remove jelly toys from our shelves many years ago, as they...
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Easter Eggs & Orgasms: Sexy Toys to Put a Spring in Your Step - Sh! Women's Store

Easter Eggs & Orgasms: Sexy Toys to Put a Spring in Your Step

Spring has officially sprung, and while the kids are off hunting chocolate Easter eggs, we think the grown-ups deserve a little buzz of their own....
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How We Select Our Sex Toys - Sh! Women's Store

How We Select Our Sex Toys

Choosing a sex toy can feel overwhelming. Hundreds of shapes, materials, functions and promises — but more choice doesn’t necessarily make choosing any easier....
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Top 10 Discreet Sex Toys - Sh! Women's Store

Top 10 Discreet Sex Toys

If you're a newbie, living with family or flatmates, or looking for a toy for your travels, you might want something more discreet than...
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Q&A: Can I Wear An Anal Plug And A Vaginal Sex Toy To Work? - Sh! Women's Store

Q&A: Can I Wear An Anal Plug And A Vaginal Sex Toy To Work?

Hi, I am looking for an anal plug with at least 4 inches of insertable length which I can insert prior to going into...
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Guide to Sex Toys Materials: Stainless Steel - Sh! Women's Store

Guide to Sex Toys Materials: Stainless Steel

Stainless steel sex toys are stunning, temperature-responsive and sensually weighty. They deliver sleek sensations and delicious internal pressure. Benefits of stainless steel sex toys ...
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Guide to Sex Toy Materials: Glass - Sh! Women's Store

Guide to Sex Toy Materials: Glass

Glass and Pyrex - solid, temperature-responsive and super-slippery material. Sex toys made from glass offer incredible sensations. A solid weightiness coupled with a sleek...
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Guide to Sex Toy Materials: Vinyl - Sh! Women's Store

Guide to Sex Toy Materials: Vinyl

Vinyl is a cheap, soft material, typically containing lower levels of phthalates than jelly material. This is quite an old-school sex toy material, often...
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How To Introduce Sex Toys into Your Relationship - Sh! Women's Store

How To Introduce Sex Toys into Your Relationship

Introducing the idea of playing with a sex toy as a couple can feel daunting, especially if you're unsure how your partner will react....
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Guide to Sex Toy Materials: Silicone - Sh! Women's Store

Guide to Sex Toy Materials: Silicone

Silicone is the best sex toy material, with a growing choice as manufacturers and consumers cotton on to its fantastic qualities. Silicone is odourless,...
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Q&A: What Sex Toy Should I Buy My Wife? - Sh! Women's Store

Q&A: What Sex Toy Should I Buy My Wife?

Hi, my wife's birthday is soon and I'm thinking of buying her a new toy (for both of us to enjoy). I've seen porn...
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Can The Use Of Sex Toys Ruin Relationships? - Sh! Women's Store

Can The Use Of Sex Toys Ruin Relationships?

We recently came across a statistic that stated 54% of 1000 women surveyed hid their sex toy use from their partners. This rings true...
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What Types Of Sex Toys Do Couples Enjoy? - Sh! Women's Store

What Types Of Sex Toys Do Couples Enjoy?

Hi Sh! I hope you are all keeping well. I have a question. I'm curious about trying sex toys, but I don't know where...
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Can Sex Toys Really Improve Your Sex Life? - Sh! Women's Store

Can Sex Toys Really Improve Your Sex Life?

Hi Team Sh!  I'm writing a piece on the orgasm gap. I'm particularly interested in sex toys and how they can be used to...
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Q&A: Will Sex Toys 'Ruin' Me For Future Sex? - Sh! Women's Store

Q&A: Will Sex Toys 'Ruin' Me For Future Sex?

Self-pleasuring and orgasms with a sex toy have many health benefits. Pleasure improves your mood and makes you feel good. 
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Advice On How To Best Clean Your Sex Toys - Sh! Women's Store

Advice On How To Best Clean Your Sex Toys

Here is our advice on how to best clean your sex toys. You might like sex to be as 'dirty' as possible, but keeping...
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Best Remote Control Sex Toys for Remote Play - Sh! Women's Store

Best Remote Control Sex Toys for Remote Play

Whether you are playing together or apart, we have the right remote control sex toys for you! Teledildonics (yup, that’s the technical term for...
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Pack Heat and Travel Light: Sex Toy Travel Tips - Sh! Women's Store

Pack Heat and Travel Light: Sex Toy Travel Tips

Holiday, babes! You're all set. Since you got the tickets, you've been dreaming about the incredible pleasure you will experience. But there's one issue:...
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Go Green: The Best Eco-Friendly Sex Toys - Sh! Women's Store

Go Green: The Best Eco-Friendly Sex Toys

Is caring for the earth as important as caring for your pleasure? (Hint: It should be.)Considering that 20,000 tonnes of batteries make their way...
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Sex Toys and the Hite Report - Sh! Women's Store

Sex Toys and the Hite Report

In 1974 (18 years before Sh! opened its doors and gave women a chance to buy their own sex toys in a relaxed & informative...
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How To Choose the Best Sex Toy for You - Sh! Women's Store

How To Choose the Best Sex Toy for You

Whether you're a sex-toy newbie looking for a first vibrator or budding sexpert seeking new thrills, the most important thing to think about when choosing...
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Q&A: What's the best way to store my sex toys? - Sh! Women's Store

Q&A: What's the best way to store my sex toys?

I have a pile of sex stuff. I’m not sure what the correct way to store and organise my sex toys is but I...
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Q&A: How to choose the right sex toy? - Sh! Women's Store

Q&A: How to choose the right sex toy?

Hi Sh! I wonder if you could advise me or whether this is outside your advice area. I have never bought a vibrator or any...
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