The context makes it worse, but I’m just trying to gauge how fucked up normal people would find this, because being raised by this kind of person messed with my calibration.

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    If your brother was 17, and your mother did this, and a mandatory reporter found out they would be calling CPS - level of abnormal.

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    Pretty weird.

    That’s old enough they can buy their own.

    Is it like a really passive aggressive sign mom doesn’t like their gf?

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    I’m pretty fucked up as a person, and I think this would be weird as all fuck. I think most people consider fleshlights pretty taboo to begin with.

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    “Wanking wasn’t enough? You’ve no hands?!” was my first thought, bringing back some Reddit core memories, lol.

    Ofc it’s weird AF. Promoting hedonism and oversexualization is weird and immoral in general, but your own mom doing that to you sounds traumatic too… Sorry, OP. This is the kind of stuff you either take to the grave or share only when you find an extremely understanding lady. :/

    And purely out of curiosity, where are you from?

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      Everyone knows masturbation is hedonistic and immoral!

      And purely out of curiosity, what religion does your username imply?

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        Their head would explode if they saw my drawer of 1-2k USD of bad dragon dildos, vibrators, clit suckers, masturbators, plugs, beads, and more…

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          😱 Is this just for fun or are you a professional? 2k on sex toys… Maybe I’m just too poor to get it but that’s a bit too much for ANY kind of toy collection, lol.

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            That’s just for myself and my partner hahaha. We don’t do any sort of work or share or anything. We just like to try new things.

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        I didn’t say masturbation, in the traditional sense, was something so outrageous and immoral (“wanking wasn’t enough?!”, as I said, but you need to fight windmills to make any sort of valid point here, ofc). I understand the urges of the flesh because I too am a person (a healthily horny man at that!), but fleshlights are definitely too much. It’s advanced gooning. Your mom promoting it and buying you sex toys is weird AF and concerning (what’s next, she’s gonna pay for your OF subscriptions? Pay for your first hooker threesome? 🤔), and the fact I even have to spell it out is, well, I’d like to say surprising and disappointing but it isn’t, not really. I know who I’m talking to here, after all.

        And Muslim non-sectarian!

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    Only if it’s a present the size of a car in the garage and you invite everyone over to witness him unwrap it.

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    As far as societal norms go, a 9/10.

    As far as actually being unhealthy? Depends. If this is a sex positive, giving you the tools you need, and being supportive type of thing, i would say this is unconventional but healthy. If it’s some sort of personal involvement or insertion into your sex life, I would say this is very unhealthy.

    Your mom getting involved in any sort of sexual topic can be really uncomfortable, but that doesn’t make it wrong, it just needs to be in a healthy, mature, and appropriate way.

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    It’s entirely possible for a mother & son to have a loving, honest, and very Open relationship. They can discuss anything and be supportive.

    Giving that kind of gift could fit right in with the dynamic. Or, a family could enjoy giving “gag gifts” and it could be one of those.

    It does not have to be a weird or bizarre gift.

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      Yeah, context is very important. It goes from fucking weird, to funny depending.

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      I fall into the latter category. At one point while I was growing up my dad gave my recently-divorced aunt a glow-in-the-dark vibrator for Christmas, and everyone thought it was hilarious. My sister and I had to pretend we didn’t understand what it was. Grandma I think maybe actually didn’t know what it was.

      I definitely also have known people who would be mortified to even hear that story, much less have it happen to them. It really does just depend on the dynamic.

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      Yeah, I know the bitch spent $100 on something for him when I was prostituting myself to afford $60 for Pearson’s fucking chemistry question textbook.

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        I heard all the books are free now? Considering you’re on here you probably knew that already though…