Wait until you hear this one:
Recently, a mom contacted us for some advice. She owns a few “toys” used for mild bondage sex play. But there had been, uh, an incident; her kid had found one the toys under her bed and asked, “Mommy, what’s this for?”
Yikes.
The thought of your child showing off your “fun handcuffs” to his friends at school is a humiliating one. The gossip and snickering—and what your ex might say—is enough to kill that fantasy.
We encourage you to keep toys and games around for your own pleasure. Just make sure you have a foolproof hiding place.
This question might help you come up with some ideas: Where would you hide a pile of cash?
A simple lock box from the hardware store might do. (We know that some of you might have so many toys that one little lock box wouldn’t do!)
If you can splurge, sex stores such as Babeland sell “toy boxes” for this purpose. They come in a variety of pretty styles, with a lock and key.
Obviously, it’s your choice, but the most important consideration is keeping your “toys” out of your kids’ sight.
If your kids ask, “What’s in the box, Mommy?” and hear a mumbled explanation, their curiosity might peak. Explanations like “private things just for grown-ups” will signal all-out efforts to discover what is contained in this super secret box. It is just so much easier (and respectful to your kids) to keep your adult toys totally out of their awareness.
Some mothers, however, are more worried about other family members snooping:
“I'm not as worried about my kids finding my toys as I am about my mom,” single mom Elissa, who blogs at MommaLiss, told Single Mom Seeking during an interview about this topic.
Elissa, who describes her mom as “so helpful but disturbingly old-fashioned,” is also anxious that her mom might find her birth control because “in her world not being married means I most certainly wouldn’t need such a thing!”
Another single mom told us about an emergency evacuation of her building. Her mother, who was visiting, grabbed the kids, of course, but she also took the locked steel box, thinking that it contained important documents and, perhaps, cash and jewelry.
What this grandmother had taken was this SM’s “personal items.”
Luckily, the evacuation was brief and uneventful and no one unlocked the box. Enough said.
Now tell us: Where do you hide your toys?
Dads, we know that you’re hiding some, too!
Photo of Devine Toy Box from Babeland
