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Adult Retail Leaders Offer Look at What’s in Store for 2019

Stock markets may be uncertain, wages nationwide may be stagnating and costs increasing, but many adult retail companies are planning to expand in 2019.

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profile

Hott Products' Chris Post Discusses Development, Market Trends

Go into your local adult novelty shop and pick up a pair of edible undies. Maybe it’s a gag gift. Maybe it’s intended to spice up a sexual relationship that has started to feel rote. Maybe it’s part of a birthday or anniversary present — the details of which will be shared behind closed doors.

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Pleasure Products Manufacturers Discuss Trends in Designs

When it comes to sex toys, one might think that not much has changed since the days of polished paleolithic siltstone. Form took a big step with the advent of plastics, and function allowed some innovation when electricity came along but, beyond that, the more things change the more they stay the same.

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opinion

Tailoring Toys: Sexual Diversity Drives Demand For Specialty Products

Find a need and fill it, the old saw goes. According to manufacturers of products designed for the LGBT community, that cliché is as true now as it ever was — particularly because the “gay community” is not one, uniform community but several, each with a distinct individuality.

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opinion

GLBT Brands, Personalities Appeal to Broad Scope of Sexualities

The decision to sell dildos and cock rings is fraught with many of the same questions of specificity that plague any retail shop. Does one focus sales on a particular segment of the buying public, refining that demographic as narrowly as you can and be perceived not only as working for that community but being of that community?

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trends

‘Fifty Shades’ Bumped Business, but the Fetish Market Remains Unchanged

The more things change, the more they stay the same, at least when it comes to the manufacturing and marketing of fetish products.

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