I have yet to see a gift guide helping you find just the right style of sex tech for your special someone(s), although Wired News has a pretty good guide for geeks this year.

Sex tech makes a great gift, even if you’re not “in the industry” and therefore expected to hand out naughty niceties. (I gave my friends Fukuoko 9000s as gifts long before I started writing Sex Drive.)

“I think a lot more people are open to it than one would imagine,” says Karin Tobiason, publicist at Good Vibrations, who once bought a “little-tiny-teeny-weeny vibe” for a family friend — a 70-year-old widow who was absolutely thrilled by the gift.

If you’re not sure how the recipient will respond, some items are easy to pass off as a joke if necessary. Big Teaze Toys makes a number of popular items, including the vibrating rubber duckie (with or without bondage wear) and the vibrating daisy, the petals of which snap off to become a cock ring.

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