Sex Toys

Are sex toys an essential to a happy sex life?

My husband recently brought up the idea of looking at sex toys together. My jaw dropped to the floor and I just stared at him. I couldn't believe he wanted to look for sex toys to enhance our sex life when I thought we were both pretty satisfied. He explained to me that it was mostly stuff he wanted me to try, which had me puzzled. I am so unbelievably satisfied with my husband alone (since we've begun having sex, he has only NOT given me an orgasm 3 times. Pretty impressive, if I do say so myself) that I couldn't imagine needing something else to enhance our sex. So, after I stroked his ego a little bit (ladies, it is very important to put aside your pride every once and a while and boost your man's confidence. They LOVE it) he sort of forgot actually buying something and we just looked through the products and laughed at most of them.

Clearly, sex toys are not for me, but that's not to say that other people don't like (or need) sex toys in their sex life. I know they can come in handy when you're single, but how important are they to an actual relationship? I feel very sorry for women who can only get a great orgasm--or even just a mediocre one--from vibrators alone. It's not their fault by any means, but I do feel sorry that a guy's never been able to do that for them. I know that I am very fortunate to have a guy who can get me off just as often as he gets off (and he says his orgasms are even better when I get off too--great guy, right?) and I feel every girl should get to experience a great orgasm from a man's penis. But, we don't live in a perfect world so I know sex toys are necessary for some women. If I was a man, I would want to know that my penis had the same power to give an orgasm as a vibrator or some other toy. It would make me feel lesser to know that my partner depends on a toy to get pleasure. Do actual men think that way, though?

I can understand adding a sex toy to your sex life to spice it up now and then, but it would severely bother me to solely depend on a toy to do what a man should be doing. I'm not demeaning the use of sex toys; I'm just feeling very fortunate today for the husband/sex I have. I'm one lucky girl it seems.