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The photo included 5 different types of butt plug, along with an AC power plug. I find that pretty funny but still i took it down. If you need to know why then it's because someone obviously put in a photo with a power plug as a joke. If you want a better reason i guess you could argue that depicting a power plug next to 5 butt plugs with a caption reading "6 butt plugs" could incite the insertion of power plugs into the anus' of naive experimenters. Larryisgood (talk) 22:58, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would encourage postings of original photographs or drawings of butt plugs in order to provide an informative visual representation of how to safely and realistically use a butt plug. While pornography sites show butt plug usage, it could be argued that they use them in an unrealistic and dangerous fashion. --The Educated 10:19, 9 May 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brow276 (talk • contribs)

Medical Uses?

How about medical uses? See fx [1] (they seem to be called anal plugs in this case). Thue | talk 20:00, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The link is dead, but we can still find a webpage for the company: Coloplast. Unfortunately there is no longer any mention of anything apparently relevant? Maybe some medical experts who browse Wikipedia will come along some day and help us improve these articles. (Maybe rainbows and unicorns will shoot out of my ..... well..... anyway..... ) ~ Teledildonix314 ~ ^Talk~ _4-1-1 ~ 05:59, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Plugs as Punishment - Citation? Source?

Removed statement below - tangential/unimportant to discussion of sex toy, and provocative enough to require rigorous substantiation.

Historically, butt plugs were often used as a way to humiliate or punish slaves. These plugs were generally large and were intended to cause pain upon insertion. Men who were crucified were often plugged; this was to prevent defecation whilst the man was hanging for several days.

21:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

There would need to be substaintal evidence to prove or disprove that butt plugs were used as a form of torture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brow276 (talk • contribs) 10:08, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

eBaum's World

I'm removing the eBaum's World reference. I first heard of them in the mid-nineties in Mad, which is of course a pop culture-skewing magazine. I didn't know what they did, but the way the phrase was used seemed to assume that the reader did. Needless to say this predates eBaumsworld by a number of years. -Branddobbe 20:07, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Picture Scale

The pcitures here don't have any sense of scale. Maybe some should be shown with something next to them?

Butt plug inventor

Who invented the butt plug? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.72.255.215 (talk) 02:41, 20 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

I haven't the faintest idea. Nor do I know when sex toys intended specifically for anal use were invented. Some history would be good, if anyone can find any verifiable data. Dildos have been around forever, and vibrators go back a surprisingly long way, but my guess would be that butt plugs are much more recent an innovation, probably dating to the 1970's. I will see what I can dig up. 72.49.66.68 (talk) 08:17, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Typical" butt plug

I've done my fair share of shopping for butt plugs, and I don't feel that the grey, barely tapered stick with the caption "A typical butt plug" is representative as such. There is usually a LOT more tapering, bulge, etc. Can someone change the picture to something more reasonable?

Extras about the butt plug

Butt plugs come in hundreds of different shapes for many different reasons. Mainly to stimulate certain regions or to accommodate the feeling of being full, which some people tend to enjoy. For examples of over a hundred shapes and sizes of such plugs you can explore any major adult retailer such as bbssm.com or the company manufacturers themselves. The most reknown are made by Doc Johnson, but the market has become quite huge for the plugs in themselves to where they are now fancied in the aspects of things, creatures, and even replicas that I don't even want to mention. Either way... butt plugs are an essential part of the sex toy industry, and if you enjoy experimenting and wouldn't mind feeling that filling sensation... or should I say, if you have a butt.... you should try plugging it. ;-)

Have fun.

Legal slang

I just watched an episode of House that made reference to the term "butt plug" as a legal slang for lawyer or the lawyers fee. Was this made up for the show, or is it genuine slang? JayKeaton 19:59, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, according to [2], "other sexually explicit nicknames for a lawyer include asshat, douchebag and Rick Santorum."--Cancun771 11:18, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a circular reference, as it also originates from the 'House, MD' episode 'Que Sera Sera'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.115.194.191 (talk) 05:35, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistent claims

These should also never be used to stimulate any area other than the rectum, though they often are.

A butt plug is not necessarily confined to only anal stimulation.

These claims directly follow each other, and the latter one makes it sound like the first sentence was never in the article. ;-) I assume it has appeared due to incremental article updates, and weren't written at the same time by the same author. I think they should be somehow merged, maybe with the paragraph starting out with "A butt plug is not recommended for other use than anal due to the health risks, but some use them in other ways despite this after precautions, such as ..." — Northgrove 02:11, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

references

This article is pretty good, but needs references! Munchmuchmunch? (talk) 05:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In particular, i have added a little "factchecking needed" notation to the sections of Basics and of Risks. There are a couple of claims being made related to the medical issues around safety, but there is no supporting Reliable Source to back these claims. In fact, after reading the Brittanica articles (currently in the footnote citations) about Colon, Rectum, Bowel, and Anus, i have found no mention of any kind in those medical articles which would support the claims. However, because i am not a Doctor, and i don't have any Medical Textbooks to consult on this issue, i'd prefer to use a "needs factchecking/ please help us improve this article" approach, rather than totally deleting those sentences. Thanks ~ Teledildonix314 ~ ^Talk~ _4-1-1 ~ 05:55, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

vandalism revert 29th March 2009

Due to a series of edits which were detrimental to the quality of the article, i have taken the liberty of "restoring" all of the contents to a previous version (as it was found last week) and have made some small deletions of unsourced claims. ~_{Teledildonix314}~^Talk~_4-1-1~ 00:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

anal jewelry

I've redirected anal jewelry here and copied over the bulk of the content. If anyone feels it should be in its own section here, feel free - or i can do it for you. But this will definitely bring more attention to anal jewelry as a topic (fwiw). ViniTheHat (talk) 23:47, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A common misconception?

I've always assumed the function of a butt plug (no experience with myself) was to literally plug up the anus, presumably because anal sex had made it less effective in terms of retention / in order to prevent accidental defication. That may sound ignorant, but it's just not a topic I've cared to look into over the course of years dispite being regularly exposed to references to butt plugs. That said, the absense of such a function in the article seems to reinforce that this is not the purpose. However I wonder if it would not be worth disabusing this misconception in the article. I don't know if any other people hold such a misconception, but I suspect actually most people do. You hear the word plug, and it's only natural to assume it's there to plug something up, so it doesn't do what anuses are traditionally thought of doing. --72.173.160.50 (talk) 00:30, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is a five-year stale thread, but just for the record, you're thinking of an anal plug, which is quite different in both form and function. -- The Anome (talk) 13:42, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Photo of woman using buttplug

I see no discussion regarding whether or not the picture should be kept in the article. There is a discussion as to whether or not it should be deleted from the commons, but that has no bearing on whether or not it belongs in the article. I think it should be removed as it is redundant with the picture of the buttplug being inserted. If there is consensus (outside of the commons discussion) that says otherwise, please direct me to it. Asarelah (talk) 15:29, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

woman using buttpug

there is no reason to remove the picture from the article. men and women both use butt plugs. Some may find buttplug usage portrayed as only a male thing to be offensive. by continually displaying usage as only a male issue it is missleading. Men and women are also built differently and receive stimulation in different ways from butt plugs.

anyone can be offended by any picture or say that its usage is redundant. the usage of a picture with a woman using a butt plug is completely different than that of a man using a buttplug. men and women are different. if you think it is offensive and want to remove it, but find the male version not to be offensive, then you need to really analyze your own moral values. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmw55018 (talk • contribs) 16:52, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's not that the picture is offensive. This picture shows more of the room and the woman than it does the plug -- which, when inserted, can hardly be photographed sufficiently to provide any substantially helpful information to the article. HalJor (talk) 17:18, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Haljor. If a series of close-up pictures of a plug being inserted into a woman's anus are available (though I don't see the point as the female anus isn't significantly different than a mans), then an arguement could be made for their inclusion. But the current picture of a woman using a buttplug is useless for this article. Asarelah (talk) 22:45, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

come off your high horses please. men and women are different — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.84.242.205 (talk) 06:07, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not as far as the structure of the anus is concerned. And its not a good picture for the article either way.Asarelah (talk) 15:15, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The picture is offensive, and doesn't need to show any part of the male genitalia, as it does. I believe the first picture is sufficient enough. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.218.228.255 (talk) 19:58, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry but Wikipedia is not censored. There is a help page that explains how to hide images you don't want to see. holizz (talk) 01:09, 12 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Google Description Problem?

Searched "butt plug". Saw this in the description. "A butt plug is a torture device designed to be inserted in the foot and eye for sexual pleasure" 76.24.121.192 (talk) 22:29, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, you're right. I think google just needs to update to the most recent edits. Asarelah (talk) 23:37, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Terrible Images

Just because "Wikipedia is not censored" does not mean we need to have such awful images in the article. A higher quality, more professional photo of a person using a butt plug should be found if we absolutely need to show a photographic demonstration. However, because the concept is so obvious and self-explanatory, does an explicit photograph of someone using a butt plug actually enhance the article? Does it really aid the audience in understanding what a butt plug is, or is it just giving an amateur pornographer undue satisfaction?

Wikipedia is not censored, but neither is it a repository for amateur porn.

Finally, I made several edits to the other images which highly improved the article. The "two separate butt plugs" image is not only of low photographic quality, but it is not very representative of the most common butt plugs available. As such, it is a poor choice for the top image slot on the page. The "fetish plug" photo is based on original research and is an exceedingly poorly-drawn fan art of a furry butt plug. It is not encyclopedic and I will remove it again.

To everyone who disagrees with these changes, please explain with extensive justification why.

--141.210.253.87 (talk) 16:20, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Remove pornographic photos

Drawings make a point. Do NOT need pornographic photos of women. Offensive. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.91.101.129 (talk) 03:10, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought, you're right. In any case, Drmies removed them before either one of us could do so. LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contribs)} 03:13, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]