Traveling with Toys

[Chiara_searches]

So I really am not good at searching out prior threads (I tried, I really did). Again, if this has been discussed elsewhere, could someone post a link? Thanks!

I'm also not sure this goes in HT...it's more a general question/seeking advice than an express "give me steps 1, 2, 3." Apologies to the mods if I put this in the wrong place!

My question is: how many of you travel with toys? If you travel with toys, how do you get over the hibbie jibbies of TSA having possibly pawed through your bag? Do you carry them in your carry on bags and watch the x-ray screener smile when he or she makes out the shape? Will a vibrator come across the x-ray as something electronic that should be removed from your bag and placed in a bin? Do you remember to take the batteries out so they don't turn on while in transit?

I'm traveling right now and yesterday went to a store I had been wanting to visit. I "accidentally" bought a couple of things (okay, four things). Now I'm questioning why I did that since I have to get them back home eventually. Maybe I'll ship them to myself...but that just seems silly.

 

[Cattypuss]

I've travelled overseas a few times with toys.

The toys go in the suitcase. If the customs people want to look at them they're more than welcome - I'm sure they see all sorts of things every day and they aren't gonna run and tell my mum or anything

 

[qrayze]

lol, I'd bring them in my carry-on just to see the look on the screener's face...and if my bag had to be opened in front of everybody, I would just smile and wink at anybody I made eye-contact with....great fun!


These are strangers....have fun with them! Give them something to go home and gossip about.

And no, vibrators are not considered electronics.

Also, about putting them in your baggage...how do you know that some baggage handler didn't have a fun play with them??

 

[wicked woman]

Yes take the batteries out. I'd suggest putting them in a Zip lock bag so they can be seen without being touched.

As for in carry on or checked baggage....as long as there's nothing about your toy(s) that's specifically against the rules for carry on baggage...it's your choice. I've done both. All I'll say is own your sexuality, woman. Nothing to be embarassed about.

And there is at least one long thread on this but I'm too lazy to search for it.

 

[SweetErika]

Yes take the batteries out. I'd suggest putting them in a Zip lock bag so they can be seen without being touched.

Yep, that's what we've done. I usually take the Hitachi and pack the attachments separately, in a ziploc bag. I always put toys in checked luggage, but part of that's because I never have space in my carry -ons.

 

[Derya]

funny story

I have traveled with mine in the checked baggage and I don't worry about somebody seeing them if luggage gets searched, so what they probably have them too and what about all of the other stuff they see in your luggage.

A funny story though, I traveled to visit a female friend. I had flown of course and had a rental car and when I loaded and unloaded my luggage probably tossed it around a bit. Well we get in her apt. and she hears this whirring noise and thinks its the guy upstairs of her apt. vacuuming or something. Of course you already know what's gonna be the punch line here but anyways. We are walking around the apt. and she's saying he wasn't doing that before I went out to meet you when you got here and we're walking around listening to the ceiling and then I sensed it seemed near the wall. I said it sounds like its coming from outside now....and as we moved toward the sound I was like "omg its coming from my suitcase" that happened to be setting at the wall near a window and before I even opened and it and said anything more she bust the hell up laughing said "you brought a vibrator with you?" Needless to say we laughed til we about wet our pants....I mean the most hilarious part was the wandering around for 5-10 min. trying to figure out what the sound was. So my one admonishment is BE SURE TO REMOVE THE BATTERIES!!! Although I'm not embarassed to travel with my toys I would be embarrassed if they caused my luggage to get searched because somebody thought it was a bomb or something.

Overall I was fortunate in that situation too because I was traveling along hauling all my overpacking and I had trouble getting the rental car underway so my large suitcase sat on the conveyor where its unloaded an extraordinarly long time after everyone else got their stuff before I went back to get it. How suspicious would that have been if the thing had started buzzing there where it sat all alone with no one appearing to be in any hurry to retrieve it, I'd have been dealing with Homeland Security for sure. It's just fortunate for me it didn't happen to get jarred around enough to engage until I was tossing my own luggage about. So what could have been one of life's most embarassing moments actually became one of its greatest memories, brings a smile every time I think about it and tell the story. Definitely take them along to enjoy but remove the batteries!!

 

[NomadLady]

I've had them in checked and carry on baggage. The TSA guys got a giggle and pointed to the screen and I just winked at them.

 

[djyak]

(Tifani) I always travel with my bullet vibe, I just take the batteries out. Only had one security guy in Italy pull it out of my luggage in front of everyone, he, and the woman next to him got a laugh from it.

 

[yuna1981]

I bring my electric toothbrush to use as my vibrator when I travel.

 

[infinity706]

Sometimes, I bring some of my freakiest shit, in hopes I will get searched. I, especially, like to bring my Dick Rambone dildo.

 

[Chiara_searches]

Sometimes, I bring some of my freakiest shit, in hopes I will get searched. I, especially, like to bring my Dick Rambone dildo.

Maybe some day I'll be that brave...

 

[bailadora]

I don't travel enough that this is concern for me. But should the need ever arise, I'll be sure to heed Derya's advice!

Thanks for the laugh, girl!

 

[silverwhisper]

i know derya posted her story as a funnny yet cautionary tale, but a year or so ago (i think), i remember seeing a news story in which a sex toy shut down part of an airport because the batteries were still in it and it was accidentally switched on.

infinity: of course you do!

ed

 

[BrazenFellow]

Checked luggage works fine. Take the batteries out, as has been said many times before.

Going through US Customs I was stopped and they searched my luggage. I'd never thought that a fleshlight looked particularly huge until this pissed off Mexican is rooting through my gear, holds it up, asks: "What is this?"

First thought: "Tell him it's a sex toy; if he asks why you have one when you're going to visit your girlfriend's family explain the concept of too large a peg. Strut like an asshole."
Second thought: "I don't want to miss my flight. Can I get away with calling it a flashlight?"
Third thought: "Compromise."

"Uh, that's a sex toy."
"Yeah." He puts it down and looks decidedly queasy, like I shove the case up my ass or somesuch.

Whatever luggage you have can end up being checked. Hope it's by proper customs officials, who tend to be more professional than the make-work project bullshit that is the TSA in Canada and the United States. Either way, it's not illegal in any way unless you like to get off with a halberd or somesuch. In which case I say that is some kinky shit.

 

[Chiara_searches]

Well, I was only traveling in the U.S. and when I got home, things did look rearranged in my luggage, although there wasn't the nice little note from TSA saying "Hey, we put our paws on your stuff."

It wasn't all that hard...except when I got home and realize I forgot to take the batteries out of something. Luckily, it hadn't started making any noises...whew, dodged that bullet.

Then I realized I didn't find the possibility of them pawing my stuff as squeemish as I thought. Ninety-five percent or more of the time, I clean toys before and after (yes, I am a tad OCD about clean toys and other implements of pleasure), so they were getting cleaned whether they'd been touched or not.

 

[Braschi]

If you aren't the kind of person who wants to show off, then the best place is to put your toys in checked baggage. They are usually screened by machines, and it's very rare that a manual inspection is made.

A lot of people, however, think that their bags have been searched, because it's normal for things to move around in your bag. Depending on the transportation system within the terminal, the bag will be jolted and shook quite a lot before it even gets on the plane, and the pressure differentials will move things around. (For example, sealed containers expanding and pushing other things away). Still, better to wash up, afterwards if it makes you feel better.

 

[a75]

I once had a gf working in the Athens Airpost and asked her a question about how the staff reacts, when they see dildos etc. in the luggages of the passengers. She answered they 've seen so many, that they don't react.

 

[BongoGal]

I bring my electric toothbrush to use as my vibrator when I travel.

I do the same! I've never even used it to brush my teeth.