Oh no - a fellow Redditor! Well, at least we're not Facebook friends, Dice. I'll still have SOMEWHERE to post the awesome stuff I find there. ;) (Also, I totally missed at least one of those.)
Native German speakers there said that if you really stretch things (haha), you could say that "sex toys" was a sort of translation for that, but it's not really the word for them. Then everybody whined about how out of date the slang in German textbooks is. :D