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Phthalate and the Toxic Sex Toy Scare

There it was, first thing on a Monday morning, "According to Greenpeace, Our Sex Toys are Toxic!"!

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Loving sex toys as we do, the matter of phthalates in sex toys and the risk posed was of concern. That is why we did the appropriate research, and came up with some facts that determined once and for all that the environmental group getting all up in arms over phthalates in vibrators, dildos and other adult toy products, is simply the most bizarre health scare of the year.

What follows is an article that first appeared on our Sex Toys and Adult Entertainment Blog, reprinted here for your convenience and enlightenment. We start at the beginning, the source of what in the end amounts to nothing more than an over zealous UPI and AFP wire service.

Over exposure to any chemical that can be potentially harmful to humans is of concern, but is phthalates in sex toys really something that an environmental group such as GreenPeace ought to be spending their time on... you be the judge!


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The page title posted to the GreenPeace website read, "GREENPEACE UK | Environmental Issues | GM Food | Nuclear Power" is Interesting in itself, I have to ask, what on earth do sex toys have to do with Nuclear Power?

The article begins... "Is nothing sacred? A new report released today by our Dutch office reveals that the plastics used to construct a wide range of sex toys contain very high concentrations of hazardous phlalates, toxic chemical softeners used in PVC to make it soft and flexible."

The article goes on to state that... "The research was commissioned after Durex's 2005 Global Sex Survey revealed that three million Dutch people admit to owning a sex toy. Over a million are sold there every year, making the market worth 22 million Euros. Phthalates can still be widely found in products ranging from cosmetics to floor coverings, and are known to leach out into the environment (or into your body, in the case of sex toys) over time."

Read the entire "How Safe is Your Sex Toy" article, or download the full report entitled, "Determination of Phthalates in Adult Toy Products".


EU Sex Scandal, or Simple Misrepresentation of the Facts...

Referred to as the "EU Sex Scandal", Greenpeace is quoted as stating that, "The latest research indicates that exposure to these substances can upset the body's ability to regulate hormone production, damage reproduction, and cause liver and kidney defects. They can also possibly cause cancer."

According to STATS at George Mason University, "It is clear that scientific rigor isn’t particularly “sacred” to sex toy-playing environmental activists, as the chances of ingesting a “toxic” dose of the plasticizing agent from a sex toy are next to impossible. Besides, as we have noted, the overwhelming majority – 85 to 90 percent – of human exposure to phthalates comes from meat and fish."

Apparently the logic behind Greenpeace’s concern of phthalates in adult toys, marital aids and other adult novelties, was spawned as a result of a European Union ban on one particular phthalate previously found to be used in the manufacter of children's toys... DINP.

It would seem that GreenPeace believes that if DINP is dangerous for kids, then, so the logic goes, DINP must in fact be dangerous for adults.


The Truth about DINP in Toys...

Whether it be childrens toys or adult toys, according to the American Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), there was not enough demonstrable risk, based on studies showing the rate that DINP migrates from vinyl toys and on the way children “mouth” toys, to support a petition to ban DINP in toys for children aged five and under.

It was stated by the CPSC that in order for there to be a "potential risk", an infant would have to suck on a plastic toy containing DINP for at least two hours, but in fact... the children who sucked the most (the 99th percentile), did so for only 12 minutes a day.

This was back in 2003, and the EU's Institute for Health and Consumer Protection also produced a risk assessment report addressing concern over DINP that concluded...

“The end products containing DINP (clothes, building materials, toys and baby equipment) and the sources of exposure (car and public transport interiors, food and food packaging) are unlikely to pose a risk for consumers (adults, infants and newborns) following inhalation, skin contact and ingestion."

“The indirect exposure via the environment is unlikely to pose a risk to humans following the main route of exposure, the oral route, as combined exposure of adults is almost exclusively related to occupational exposure, the overall assessment indicates no concern for adults."

"For infants, combined exposure which is mainly related to exposure from toys and via the environment is not considered of concern.”

So, once again we ask...


Just How Safe are Sex Toys, Marital Aids, Novelties and Adult Toy Products?

Well, since the EU’s adoption of REACH (legislation that requires chemicals to be proven safe before they can be used in consumer products), the merest hint of risk can result in a chemical being banned. In the case of DINP, it has been demonstrated that it causes negative health effects in rats when exposed to very high doses.

Further evidence of the GreenPeace Sex Toy Scandle being blown out of proportion and amounting to nothing more than a "make work project" for environmentalists with nothing better to do, is the fact that the U.S. Institute for Health and Consumer Protection has concluded that the risk of toxic effects from DINP is small or nonexistent.

I would also note, the whole issue of phthalates in sex toys, and the entire debate over adult toy safety, was simply too licentious a health scare for the American media to even feel comfortable reporting.

So, there you have it, the truth about sex toy safety and the presence of phthalates in adult toys and adult novelty products, and the risk they Do Not Pose!

Visit the Sex Toys and Adult Entertainment Blog today, for more on Sex Toy Safety, Phthalate and the Toxic Sex Toy Scare.

 

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