These men already feel enough pressure in the bedroom trying to understand your plumbing. Knowing they may be compared to a “toy” doesn’t make the business of sex any easier. “We can’t compete with the giant electric armadillo,” said Joe, 31. “I’m only what God made me.”

In fact, Joe wonders how vibrators got to be so acceptable in the first place. “If I bought a vibrating vagina, you would think I was a freak,” Joe said. “A hand is good enough for every guy on the planet. Why is a hand not good enough for a woman?”

John, 26, has never used a vibrator on a woman, and he doesn’t plan to. “I would never bring it into play because it’s not me,” he says. “It does something your [boy] is not going to do. It’s the easy way out.”

If he was having meaningless, no-strings-attached sex, Rob, 28, would be cool if a vibrator was brought into the mix. Otherwise, it would be a no-go. “If it’s someone I have a serious relationship with, I would definitely prefer [that] I would be enough,” he says. “And I am enough.”

Between the vibrator haters and vibrator lovers sit a third group of men, the guys who both fear and respect the power of these magical devices. These cautious men want to make their ladies feel right, but they also worry about what cat a vibrator may let out of the bag.

“They’re good for foreplay on occasion,” said Keith, 29. “It’s not a replacement. It’s a tool.” In Keith’s mind, men should only bring in the vibrator if their troops need reinforcements. “You’re the A-team, and the vibrator is the B-team.”

To these men, vibrators are like the Force in the Star Wars movies. Use them correctly, and great good can come. But use them wrongly, and you get a sex life of machines, a Darth Vader in your bed.

“I love the girls. I love my lady,” said Jim, 27. “I support them, but I never would want [a vibrator] to get out of hand and take the place of a natural.”