{"id":65881,"date":"2015-06-24T15:38:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T19:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cam4.com\/?p=65881"},"modified":"2015-06-24T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:38:52","slug":"fifty-shades-of-grey-sex-toy-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/news\/fifty-shades-of-grey-sex-toy-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Shades of Grey Causes Sex Toy Injuries to Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sex toy injuries can happen to anyone, especially with a little extra inspiration. The Washington Post reports that <strong>sex toy injuries surges after &#8216;Fifty Shades of Grey&#8217; was published<\/strong> &#8211; are you surprised? The numbers of people visiting emergency rooms with sex toy-related injuries hasn&#8217;t just surged, it&#8217;s <em>doubled<\/em> since Fifty Shades of Grey was published in 2007!\u00a0Of course we all wanna know how these injuries are happening&#8230; all we know is that 83% of these injuries require &#8220;foreign body removals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the original article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/02\/10\/sex-toy-injuries-surged-after-fifty-shades-of-grey-was-published\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-65882 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sex-toy-injuries-fifty-shades-300x266.png\" alt=\"sex-toy-injuries-fifty-shades\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sex-toy-injuries-fifty-shades-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sex-toy-injuries-fifty-shades-500x444.png 500w, https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sex-toy-injuries-fifty-shades.png 1484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>So who&#8217;s doing the damage? Middle aged white men make up for 58% of these injuries, with the median age being\u00a044.\u00a0The majority of these injuries aren&#8217;t severe, and thankfully there have never been any deaths reported from sex toy injuries.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t prove this is all related to Fifty Shades of Grey &#8211; there could be an uprising of swinger parties, or even better &#8211; older people are discovering camming :P But sex toy sales have also increased within the same time frame, which supports the fact that something has definitely changed. Like all things that we do to our bodies &#8211; safety first!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never read Fifty Shades of Grey. But if an erotic novel can give the billion dollar sex toy industry a boost then it must be good. Who&#8217;s in for a CAM4 book club?!<\/p>\n<h2>Has Fifty Shades of Grey has inspired you lately? Leave a comment, tell us your new adventures!<\/h2>\n<p>It sounds like the masses are loosening up and exploring themselves, I wonder if they&#8217;ll try camming&#8230; as long as nobody&#8217;s getting hurt, we would love to have some of these freaky people join CAM4!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"xl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Live Cams on CAM4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex toy injuries can happen to anyone, especially with a little extra inspiration. The Washington Post reports that <strong>sex toy injuries surges after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":65884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[523],"tags":[948],"class_list":["post-65881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-entertainment","news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}