Originally Posted by MSD

Sorry to pick on you, but it's all rooted in this myth. Male sexuality is what controls and drives him, female sexuality is something to put on a pedestal and defend or to be ashamed of. Sex toys for women are OK because millenia of male-dominated society was fought by feminism, creating both a celebration of female sexuality and a reactionary movement against that. Male sexuality is the same as it's always been, and it's still seen by many as a competition in which masturbating instead of going out and asserting it is emasculating.