Woman Shares How Kicking Her Vibrator Habit Was Frustrating at First But Led to Better Orgasms

A woman who admits to becoming addicted to her vibrator shared with Cosmopolitan magazine readers recently the benefits of giving it up.Lea Rose Emery, who says that she has masturbated almost every day since the age of 19, explains that after years of reaching for her vibrator daily, she began to feel paranoid that she was beginning to become desensitized to it.She began to wonder whether she needed to have an “orgasm crutch” or had even become addicted.

She decided to kick the habit, and although she says it wasn’t easy, she has now reaped “some insanely intense, mind-blowing rewards!”

Woman takes a break from using her vibrator. Lea Rose Emery shared with Cosmopolitan magazine readers recently why she decided to give up her vibrator for a while and the benefits she experienced as a result. Emery explained that after years of using a vibrator during her daily masturbation routine she began to feel paranoid that maybe she was becoming desensitized to it and was maybe even addicted.

She wondered if she had become too reliant. Emery, who shares her life with a female partner, says that she and her girlfriend have great sex but before they met she had the realization that it was time to alter her relationship with her “romping rabbit” vibrator. She said it had become apparent that she had become “too damn reliant on it.”

She masturbated every day. The writer admits that she began to masturbate on a daily basis at the age of 19 and says that she is a believer that having “an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away.” She says, however, that there came a point where she began to worry about the effects of using a vibrator every day and wondered of she had somehow begun to need her “rabbit ears” as a crutch.

Small percentage of women experience “genital numbness.” Emery researched whether there is any evidence that using a vibrator can cause numbness and says that according to Karen Stewart, a psychologist who specializes in sex therapy, single women who use vibrators for a while sometimes found it difficult to then have an orgasm in “any other way.” Researchers from the University of Indiana, however, discovered that only 16.5 percent of women who used a vibrator had the experience of “genital numbness.”

Numbness disappears usually within 24 hours. Researchers also found that even among the small percentage of women who experienced desensitization as a result of vibrator use, they found that symptoms disappeared within a day. Findings were that using a vibrator was actually linked to “greater sexual function.”

Oral sex and penetration can also cause numbness. Sex toys weren’t the only thing that could cause “genital numbness,” researchers found. Oral sex and penetration, they say, could also cause an equal measure of numbness.

Are you too reliant on your vibrator? Emery says that with the jury being out, the answer to the question of whether you have become too reliant on a sex toy comes down to you. If you think you are, she says, you probably are!

The orgasm mindset. She says that a big part of orgasm has to do with mindset. Worrying about your vibrator use can make masturbation less pleasurable than it used to be!

Using a vibrator had become a habit. Emery says that she decided to give her vibrator a break. She says that at first she experienced a great deal of frustration and felt annoyed for a while. She wrote that although she doesn’t hate self-pleasure without a toy, which she calls “playing acoustic,” her vibrator had just become “a habit.”

It became less pleasurable. In fact, for Emery, it had become so much of a habit that without it, masturbation wasn’t as pleasurable at first. She says that sometimes she gave up “halfway through,” and this was something that had never happened to her before.

She needed to use adult X-rated entertainment. She also says that while watching p*rn was a negotiable extra when she used her vibrator, it became a necessity when she masturbated without one. Emery says that it was almost like she needed to replace her “favorite toy” with something else.

She became “distracted” and “bored.” Masturbation began to feel like a chore without her vibrator, says Emery. During the process, she says, she became “distracted,” and “even sometimes a little bored.”

She began to enjoy the slow build up. Emery says that feeling didn’t last forever, however, and although she skipped a few masturbation days altogether, within a few weeks, she began to feel like “a whole new woman.” She says that the pleasure returned to masturbating, even without a toy, and that she began to enjoy the fact that she didn’t go “from zero to OMG” in just a couple of minutes!

Orgasms became stronger and more intense. She says that by building up to orgasms, they became stronger and more intense. Taking her time, she says, helped her to really appreciate them as well.

Vibrator is now for special occasions. Apart from no longer ever having one of those “weird dud orgasms” where you’re not even sure what happened, she says that her orgasms have become “insanely intense, mind-blowing rewards.”