In this 2025 Tantra Talks Throwback, Devi and Tugce dive into the truth about vibrators, desensitization, and the not-so-subtle gaslighting happening in the pleasure product industry.

This episode is not to shame you (or anyone) about vibrator use.

The purpose is to educate you about the long-term impacts on your body and validate your lived experiences.

In this episode, Devi and Tugce explore how Tibetan 5 Element Tantra and Holistic Sexology methods can help reawaken your nervous system, restore your sensation, and support your healing, without shame, and without outsourcing your pleasure to plastic.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The stone-cold reality that vibrators can desensitize the clitoral nerve endings over time
• Why “needing stronger settings” is a red flag, not a flex
• The link between vibrator use and emotional dissociation
• How vibrators can mimic the impact of p🌐rn on the nervous system
• Why the sex toy industry is gaslighting women (and who's profiting)
• What your downward voiding winds are—and why electronics can disturb them
• How vibrators were invented (hint: lazy doctors + hysterical housewives 😬)
• What to do if you feel dependent on vibrators and how to reclaim your sensitivity!

Long story short, we’re not saying NOT to use your vibrator.

We’re saying: use it with intention, not to override your body, but to deepen your connection to it.

As with everything sexual and somatic, your body isn’t broken—we just need to understand the language that it speaks!

*Post Note- There has been some Western research regarding the numbing impact of clitoral vibrators over time. More information and links to research sources can be found here - https://holisticsexologyinstitute.com/blog/




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Devi and Alaina