A dark alleyway down a seedy side street. A flickering neon sign. Purple velvet, dusty glass cabinets and fishnets.

These are a few of the things you might’ve seen if you’ve ever gone to buy a sex toy.

Even in the age of online shopping, buying a sex toy can feel a bit seedy or X-rated, like you have to jump online in the middle of the night in a private internet browser. But it shouldn’t have to be this way.

In 2017, people around the world spent US $15billionon adult pleasure products, so a lot of us quite enjoy sex toys, or want to buy one but aren’t sure where to start.

We asked Australia’s highest-paid escort Samantha X how to have better sex, and the answer is pretty, well, do-able. Check it out in the video below, post continues after video.

Choosing and buying a sex toy is a financial investment. Sex toys are too expensive to risk buying a dud, and unlike a skirt that doesn’t look at all like it did on the website, you can’t reallyreturn them.

There’s a huge need for sex toy reviews that are honest, unbiased, realistic and detailed, and provide all the information you want to know before dropping a couple hundred in the name of multiple orgasms (or even just one would be great).

I found all of this in an Instagram account called Wild Flower ( @wildflowersex) and 117,000 people agree, it’s brilliant.

I came across Wild Flower on Instagram a couple of months ago after Aussie DJ/MTV host/podcaster/influencer Flex Mami ( @flex.mami) shared it on her Instagram stories, and I’ve not once regretted clicking ‘follow’ ever since.

It’s run by New Yorker Amy Boyajian, a former dominatrix sex worker who started her own sex positive company when no one would give her a job because of what she calls “whorephobia”.

In her words as told toHuffington Post, Wild Flower is a sex toy online store and Instagram account that merges “a space for sexual learning with resources and products to support that within a nonbinary, queer-focused, inclusive environment.”

The feed is exactly that: bright, inclusive, realistic and honest (not words you’d always associate with a sex toy Instagram account). You’ll see every single kind of person on there: pubic hair, no pubic hair, underarm hair, a disability, piercings, tattoos, cellulite, different skin tones, different shapes, different genders, different bodies.

Including one that probably looks a lot like yours.

Wild Flower also does a bang up job of representing all the many ways we experience pleasure, with who, and why. It rejects the idea of a good time only involving shaved labias and penetration that traditional porn mediums present us.

And it somehow does all of this without A) breaking Instagram’s no nipple policy (ugh) and B) having inappropriate/unwarranted comments