LIST: Local shops where you can get sex toys

Frisky Ultd

Frisky Ultd is an LGBT-owned sex toys store that was launched in the hopes of "breaking down barriers" in self-exploration, a topic that has been deemed taboo and frowned upon. Hence, this store wanted to promote sex positivity and sexual health.

Frisky Ultd offers a wide variety of sex toys, including lube, wearable sucking panty vibe, vibrator, dildo, and pounding clit sucker, among others, with price tags ranging from P115 to P2910.

You can get these products through its social media accounts or its website, which ships nationwide. They also have a physical store at M. Paterno St., San Juan.

ilya

Just like Frisky Ultd, ilya aims to promote sexual health and intimacy with its "far from being lewd" shop that also doesn't feel like a shameful secret.

ilya, located at 187 Captain Roja, San Juan, provides customers with different sex toys for men and women, such as vibrators, wands, harnesses/straps, plugs, and lingerie, among others. They also offer toys for couples, including sex furniture and sex essentials such as lubricants, stimulants, massage oils, and toy cleaners.

The price of sex toys starts at P1,000, while its sex essentials start at P85. They offer same-day delivery through its website. In the meantime, its physical store is temporarily closed.

Lauvette

The extensive selection of sex toys and gadgets available at Lauvette will elevate your bedroom experience to new heights. From dildos and vibrators to BDSM gear, fleshlights, condoms, and all sorts of other interesting trinkets, you can get them for prices ranging from P149 to P16,000.

Gifts may be discreetly delivered straight to your doorstep since they take extra care with shipping, where it packages are in an opaque black pouch—no item name, brand, or logo outside the packaging.

What makes this store unique? Every purchase of its products contributes to LoveYourself's efforts to help the HIV-AIDS affected population in the country.

The store offers free shipping for orders with P1,500+ nationwide.

Jellytime

"Everybody and every body deserves pleasure."

This is the vision of Jellytime, a local sex toys shop created by Isabelle Daza and approved by Gloria Diaz herself. It aims to open the conversation on sex positivity and make toys like vibrators, well, sexy again.

You can choose from a wide variety of options that include lube, vibrator kits, pleasure kits, bundles, merch, bachelorette kits, and accessories, among others.

It featured adorable but discrete pleasure toys like the Bobble (P1,199), a six-centimetre vibrator with a "bulbous head" and ten different vibration frequencies.

There's also the Chinchilla (P1,499), a rabbit-looking toy that comes with seven different vibrations to bring pleasure to external areas of your body, and the newest product called Deuce (P2,299). It's a two-part body toy that's meant for penetration and clitoral stimulation.

For males, they have a sleeve personal vibrator (P1,599) designed "for solo masturbation or for couple's play." Its flexible design "ensures a snug fit to any penis size and its ribbed interior provides for more optimal stimulation."

They also offer a natural water-based personal lubricant (P320) to make things slip and slide easier in bed.

You can order through its website and on its social media accounts.

Pink Bunny

Pink Bunny is a growing sex toys retail company in Cebu City with a branch in Makati City. It offers the "best quality" of sex toys for men and women (P210-P23,150), lingeries (P130-P1,800), bondage and fetish products (P130-P4,905), sex essentials such as condoms, lubricants, and sex toy cleaners (P70-P4,820) and naughty toys and gifts (P90-P820).

They have a physical store at Unit 305, Matheus Bldg, General Luna, Makati and 458 Mangostar Business Center, Juana Osmeña Street, General Maxilom Ave, Cebu City.

To order online, customers can check out these products on its website. Once you complete your ordering process, you will receive an email with your order confirmation.

Benefits of using sex toys

According to LoveYourself, a local community of volunteers that provides free HIV testing, counseling, treatment, and life coaching in the Philippines, there are also other benefits of using sex toys aside from boosting intimacy and satisfaction.

One is that these can help men last longer in bed as using sex toys can master their orgasms—delaying them, remaining hard, or having multiple orgasms. 

Likewise, citing a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, LoveYourself said that using sex toys can help men lower their risk for prostate cancer as the said study showed men who ejaculated frequently (at least 21 times a month) were "less likely" to get prostate cancer.

"Using sex toys can make things easier and faster for you guys to achieve this benefit," it said.

Moreover, sex toys aid in managing sexual dysfunctions as they can help us "learn more about out pleasure point." As per LoveYourself, "If both men and women can learn how to make themselves climax through the use of toys while masturbating, it will give them more confidence in reaching orgasm with a partner." 

Sex toys can alleviate body pain, too. As orgasms can block pain, when one reaches its climax, the event releases a hormone that "helps raise your pain threshold." As a result, "pain magically seems to go away.

More than anything else, the list of advantages of using the toys includes sleep, as these can aid in achieving an orgasmic state more rapidly and efficiently, which in turn improves our sleep quality.

People may experience a sense of relaxation and reduced stress levels as a result of the activity's production of oxytocin and endorphins. Hence, falling asleep is more accelerated.