Alex................felt much the same way about it for many years........and never even masturbated due to shame/etc......My girlfriend and I got a lovely little.....one with a dolphin on top (lol) and tried it together. helped take the fear/shame/self-assumptions out of it.
Now..................damn...............love that thing..............love it................can't belive i waited til 30 to get one. Been missing out all those years. It actually boosted my appreciation of myself and body and the big O.......ha, ha, I have more of them. Guess what they say about women in their 30s is right with me.
Oh yea, and it's a quite little bugger too....with lots of "settings".
But yea, a person, a live warm body, is much better any day.....