Plaything
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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In the 1970s, the term "plaything" saw a resurgence in the sexual revolution to describe someone who was a sex object to another person and existed for no other purpose than to give the person sexual pleasure. Calling a person a plaything could also mean that the person has no other purpose than to provide amusement to another. The original infantile definition has all but disappeared from modern vocabulary.
In porn industry, "Plaything" is applied to a type of interactive DVDs in which the viewer can play with the main actress, giving her orders about positions or sexual acts.
In the science fiction series Doctor Who, an alien, Sutekh offers to give the Doctor the Earth as a plaything in the episode Pyramids of Mars. Doctor Who declines and destroys the alien. This is one of several appearances of the word plaything in modern media.