Savage Love: My teenage son is stealing our sex toys

[safeinOhio]

I was not blessed with children, but I found this pretty funny. If you go to the link, the response might be even more interesting, enjoy.

I'm positive you've written something about this in the past. I have searched your archives but have only managed to find people arguing in the comments about this topic when what I want is your advice. My 16-year-old son is stealing our sex toys. My son took my husband's handheld toy several months ago. I found it where it shouldn't have been and let my husband know. He talked to our son and told him these are personal items, like a toothbrush, and that he needed to stop taking them. A few weeks ago I noticed my dildo was missing. I thought I had misplaced it or that my husband hid it somewhere. As it turns out, our son took it. We talked with him again and stressed that these are personal items and not something to be shared. I want to get him his own toy so he stops taking ours. My husband is squicked out about it and I agree it's weird to have your parents buy a toy for you, but he clearly wants one. I don't want to pick it out. I want to give him a prepaid gift card and have him pick out what he wants from the website of a reputable shop. Is there a better way to handle this?

—Mama In Houston
https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/savage-love-my-teenage-son-is-stealing-our-sex-toys/Content?oid=26411834

[rampartc]

1. illustration from the link ,,,,,,,

[SkeezerRedux]

2. ?

[janterry]

3. honestly hope it's a made up letter

most of them are (not saying D.S. makes them up - but 'readers' do for fun)

[empedocles]

4. 'Whatever'

[Piasladic]

5. How awful!

Thank god I never had kids. Yay sterilization!

I actually can believe it because I was a child who riffled through my parents' stuff, and though they never did have pot or sex toys, it was still interesting.

[Wawannabe]

6. I took my stepdad's pot!

He had it locked in a bank bag with the key RIGHT THERE!
Pinched for months!

[Ferryboat]

7. Savage love column always had

Pretty funny letters with sound advice.The best one was so over the top involving frozen pubic hairs that the columnist called him a sick fuck and to never write him again.