Discreetly hiding sex toys can be challenging for those who live in households with multiple people, or in close quarters of a condo without room to spread out and have a space of privacy.
That doesn’t mean you’ll forgo sexual pleasures just because others are around, but you’ll need to think creatively on how to hide sex toys discreetly and keep them hidden from prying eyes, regardless if the prying is intentional or not.
Funny thing is that so many people own sex toys, yet for some reason we still tend to think of them as terribly taboo and something to be ashamed of. As a result, huge embarrassment ensures if we discover that someone has seen our hidden stash of dildos and vibrators.
Here are some creative ways to hide your sex toys, and also to make sure your storage solutions are good for the integrity of the toy and hygiene for your personal safety. There’s a few more things to consider than just where to put adult products, so we’ll go above and beyond with a few other tips for you too.
Top 3 Ways to Discreetly Hide Sex Toys:
1. Socks
One of the most important rules for storing sex toys is to keep them separated from each other. Silicone compounds will eventually melt and blend together if they remain touching for an extended period of time, so silicone vibrators and dildos MUT be wrapped and stored individually – this is why socks are the best way to hide sex toys. Each toy gets it’s own sock. Plus, who would ever go peeking into your sock drawer?
2. Suitcase
By far the best place to store sex toys is in a suitcase, providing of course that each person in your household has their own suitcase and you’re not sharing it with others. This is one place that people never go looking for things they’ve lost – it is your personal 12 x 24 private space sized just right for any vibrator and dildo collection.
3. In a Teddy Bear
Sex toy shops will sometimes stock a product called “hide-a-bear” which is a teddy bear with inner stuffing removed and a zipper on the base. These sell for a pretty penny, but it’s so easy to make your own. All you need to do it cut open the base of a teddy bear and insert your vibrator. It’s essential that your toy is completely sterilized and dry before storing because if it’s dirty or wet, this will be a bed for germs and bacteria to grow within the teddy bear stuffing.
Importance of Sex Toy Cleaning
We would be amiss to print a guide on storing sex toys if we didn’t talk a bit about cleaning them first. It’s absolutely necessary to clean sex toys after use. Online sex toy shops like The Adult Toy Shop offer body-safe antibacterial sex toy cleaners and sprays designed for delicate dildo materials. (If you have a rubber dildo you can use any hand soap, but gentle materials like you’d find in lifelike sex toys need something more gentle.)
Now that you’ve cleaned your sex toy, always be sure the toy is completely dry before storing. Leave it out on your bathroom counter-top overnight standing upright to dry. Then wrap it in a lint-free cloth and store it in you preferred method. It’s always recommended to wrap everything individually so the sex toy materials don’t melt together, as previously mentioned.
How to Hide Sex Toys from Kids
Most people hide sex toys in the bedroom, but kids will enter your room and explore it because to them, it’s an enigma to discover. After all, anything “off limits” is oh-so enticing!
The best place to store sex toys from kids is to keep them out of the bedroom. So basically, under your bed is the worst possible spot because at some point the little ones will be hiding from monsters during their imaginative play, and finding a dildo under your bed can be a monster experience in itself!
1. Shoebox
The dimensions of a shoebox just happen to hold most vibrators perfectly, you’d think it was made for it! Now we all know kids love to play dress-up so the most important rule here is to keep the shoebox up high on your closet shelf, pushed to the back with something else in front of it. Just a little added security for explorers in your home.
2. Safe
This may seem like the most drastic option of them all, but hiding sex toys in a safe is a guaranteed way to prevent them from being discovered. Now the only issue is that if you’re a lover of big dildos, chances are a 12 inch long safe will command a very high price tag – probably a ridiculous spend of a budget just to keep it hidden. All joking aside, this is the most secure place to store sex toys from family members.
3. Bedside Table with Secret Compartment
There is quite the market for lockable bedside drawers – but it’s not necessarily for hiding sex toys. Most people use them to hide guns, jewelry and money in a secure location. But why not add your dildo there too? Hidden secret compartments with false walls leave plenty of space inside a bedside table to discreetly hide adult toys, lubes and other novelties from unwanted visitors to your bedroom.
How to Hide Sex Toys from Airport Security
First of all, you need to know that you can take sex toys on an airplane. That is not against the law, so as your luggage goes through the scanner, only the TSA screener will see that’s there. Chances are they won’t care either – after all, so many people own sex toys that it’s not a shock to see one – it’s only our personal ego that takes a hit but other humans honestly just don’t care.
The most important thing to keep in mind is to remove batteries from the toy, and if it is a USB rechargeable vibrator, activate the travel lock feature, which most USB vibrators have. Look in your instruction pamphlet on how to do this.
The only time you could make embarrassing news headlines while traveling with vibrators is if they turn on and someone gets spooked by thinking you have a bomb in your luggage – now this is cause for embarrassment so as long as it does not turn on, then you’re fine. Be sure to keep batteries separate, carry them in your purse too as some airlines prefer that since batteries in cargo can be a fire hazard.