Finding toys on eBay is easy if you know how, and halfway to impossible if you don't! I'm writing this guide to help people understand why buying sex toys on eBay looks a little tough, but is actually really easy to do! Here is some history as to the uphill and unfair battle adult toy sellers on ebay face!

•  If you are just looking to go straight to adult toy listings on eBay, Click here and select "adults only" from the top left corner. (You must have a credit card on file with eBay "to verify age" in order to view them, unfortunately - Even if you are the seller of these items!)

• Update 05/2009 - eBay has now made it possible for adult toy sellers to accept paypal! It was a personal mission to see to it that adult sellers got the same eBay options as other sellers, and it's finally come to light after many years of strange, restrictive, and unclear policies.

I imagine you are having trouble finding sex toys on eBay. You type in "vibrator", and you might get a page of listings for body massagers - promising, but not quite what you had in mind. You type in "masturbator" and probably next to nothing comes up, right? Would you believe me if I told you there were over one hundred thousand adult listings at any given time on eBay?

The reason you don't see the sex toys you're looking for - even as a censored "click here to log in" type of listing - is because eBay pulled them from the general search. Oh, adult sellers still have to pay the same fees as someone selling socks or collectibles, mind you...they just get zero exposure to people that don't feel like forking over their credit card to eBay.

An interested buyer has to:

1. log into eBay
2. have a credit card on file
3. click categories
4. click everything else
5. click adults only
6. click 'yes I am over 18'
7. click 'ok'

and THEN they get to see the listings. Oh, and hopefully they don't surf to non-adult categories while browsing or they'll be repeating steps 3 through 7 to get back, even if they have cookies enabled in their browser.

Good luck, and have fun on eBay...hopefully one day they'll make toys for consenting adults a little easier to find.