Sex toy sales have exploded as millions around the world seek to spice up lockdown with new bedroom accessories and Western societies shake off the last taboos around female pleasure.
Sofia (not her real name), a 29-year-old singleton in Paris, overcame her “psychological barrier” to sex toys when the first lockdown kicked in last March.
“Something clicked,” she told AFP. “I knew it was the right time, that we were entering a crazy period during which I was going to be cut off from all social contact and my love life.”
Berlin manufacturers WOW say their global sales have trebled over the past year.
They have shifted more than four million of their most popular model, the “Womanizer”.
Sweden’s LELO says sex toy sales were up 10 percent in 2020, despite stores being closed.