Specialized sex objects | Special pleasures

A satisfactory sex life is not easy when your body is out of the norm or you suffer from chronic pain. Various accessories also exist to contribute to the enjoyment of people with specific needs.

Approaching sexuality from the angle of well-being is not a marketing argument for the founders of Minuit Tendre. “We especially talk about well-being because we have to go through that before achieving pleasure,” believes Catherine Chevrier-Lord. These are not empty words: it was her own challenges that led her to found an online store with her friend Stéphanie Bourbeau.

The young woman has indeed experienced significant health problems which have had a very serious impact on her sexuality. She spent years looking for answers from various specialists, including erotic stores, without ever finding the support she needed. “We opened a service that I would have liked to have access to at the time,” she summarizes.

Minuit Tendre focuses on friendly and uninhibited service. Catherine Chevrier-Lord and Stéphanie Bourbeau also make it a point of honor to only offer toys and items designed with body-safe materials, to sell them at affordable prices and to adopt an inclusive, non-gendered approach. .

A good part of their clientele is also made up of queer people “comfortable with their sexuality, but who do not necessarily feel represented” by the very heteronormative imagery generally put forward in sex shops, adds -she. Hence their concern to offer articles specifically intended for trans people, for example. Their inventory also includes objects designed for people with disabilities.

Gwendoline Luthi, a sexologist who works in particular with customers with disabilities, notes that these people do not feel included in what a majority of erotic shops display. Nor do they immediately identify with performance sexuality which involves penetration. “In general, they will not have the reflex to say to themselves that they could find a sex toy to meet this kind of ideal of pleasure,” she notes.

She invites her customers to get information, but without giving a specific example of an erotic object to test or obtain. “Sex toys are still quite unexplored territory for many people,” she emphasizes. In any case, in my clientele. »

To limit penetration

Ohnut silicone washers create a buffer zone at the base of the penis. They limit the depth of vaginal or anal insertion if the length of your partner’s penis or a sex toy is uncomfortable. These pads also allow more spontaneous movements without fear of hurting others.

Support cushion

Placing a pillow under your partner’s back can contribute to comfort, but also prove essential for a person whose mobility is reduced due to a physical limitation or persistent pain. When more firmness is necessary, you can also purchase support cushions specially designed to facilitate sexual relations, some of which allow the insertion of a dildo (dildo).

Micro-masturbator

This large silicone thimble is a trans male manual masturbator. It thus allows you to comfortably caress a clitoris which will have increased in size under the effect of testosterone. It can also be used by anyone with a very small penis.

Vaginal dilators

These silicone dilators can be used to train the penis of a trans woman who has just undergone vaginoplasty. They are also used to treat women who suffer from vaginismus, caused by an involuntary contraction of the perineum that makes penetration impossible or painful.

thigh harness

This harness, with a hole for installing a dildo, is designed to be worn on the upper thigh. It was designed for people with disabilities. There are also panty-shaped harnesses also made to insert a dildowhich look less mechanical than the strap-on (strap on).