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Sex Toys Sales Capture Profit for British Sandal Maker
Nearly two years ago SSL, which manufacturers Durex condoms and Scholls sandals, took a gamble on sex toys. The gamble paid off as the British company has reported an 18 percent increase in profits of more than $91 million.
S.C. Legislation Would Ban Sale of Sex Toys
South Carolina could join the states of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas with legislation that, if passed, would make it a felony to sell sex toys and novelties, either in brick-and-mortar stores or over the Internet to the state’s residents.
Experts Ponder a Future For New Age Sex Toys
When Howard Rheingold discussed the field of teledildonics in his 1992 book “Virtual Reality,” he predicted we’d all have “portable telediddlers” by 2020.
Affiliate Program Lets Fans Buy Performers Their Favorite Toys
Sex toy distributor sexTOYsex.com has fine-tuned a new feature for its affiliates program that allows webcam performers to direct their fans to buy their favorite toys.
Pink Visual Releases New Volumes of First Time Swallows and Wild Fuck Toys.
Pink Visual has released two new reality DVDs, “Wild Fuck Toys Vol. 4” and “First Time Swallows Vol. 2.”
Nasstoys Pleased With Taylor Wane Toys
Nasstoys reports that it is happy with sales of its Taylor Wane Collection Fem-Dom Fantasy Double Stimulation Vibrating Strap-on.
OzoneToys.com Offers Adult Toys
CYBERSPACE – OzoneToys.com has announced the opening of its online adult toy store.
Cal Exotics, COLT Team for Buckshot Toys
California Exotic Novelties and Buckshot Productions (a division of COLT Studio Group) say they are pleased with the response to the recently-released Buckshot line of toys.
Pleasure Toys Offers Glass Dildos
CYBERSPACE – PleasureToys.com has announced its offering of a new wholesale line which includes 23 glass dildos in a variety of new textures, colored pattern designs and shapes.
Priscilla’s Sues Sheriff’s Department Over Sex Toys
Adult store Priscilla’s has filed suit against the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office alleging that a warrant used to seize more than 500 sex toys and novelties in a raid on the store last month was overbroad and that the seizure itself was massive, which is only permissible after an adversarial meeting.
HustlerLive Celebrates XXX-Mas With Hustler Honeys, Toys
CALABASAS, Calif. — Larry Flynt’s Hustler unit, FlyntDigital, will host a live webcast featuring adult actresses Charlie Laine and Celeste Star.
Durex Sex Toys Figures Rise on Mainstream Retailers’ Sales
Durex last week said that the launch of sex toys and new types of condoms at two of U.K.’s largest chains lifted sales growth to a record 10 percent in the last six months.
Pink Visual Releases 'Wild Fuck Toys Volume 1'
LOS ANGELES – Pink Visual Productions has announced the release of "Wild Fuck Toys Volume 1," which hit the shelves on Nov. 8.
Pipedream and Red Light District Offer Toys
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Pipedream Products, manufacturer of Red Light District Toys, has announced its offering of four new ebony toys, the Realistic Cock, Realistic Vibrating Cock, Rota-Cock and Vibrating Rota-Cock.
Sextoy.com Offers Internet-enabled Toys
LOS ANGELES – Convergence Inc.'s Sextoy.com is now selling a Rabbit style vibrator and masturbator for men that can be connected to a computer, enabling remote users to control the vibrator through the Internet.
Pipedream Releases 4 New Toys
Toy manufacturer and distributor Pipedream released a rush of new anal stimulation products this week from its Red Light District Toys line and announced plans to debut even more products at the Adult Novelty Manufacturer Expo in Pasadena, Calif., in July, Jennifer Martsolf, director of product development, told XBiz.
Oxygen Star Debuts Toys
Sue Johanson, “sex expert” and star of The Oxygen Network’s “Talk Sex,” has introduced her silicon Talk Sex Royal toy line to online retailer PleasureMeNow.com.
Banning Sales of Sex Toys
In February, Alabama's controversial ban on sex toy sales went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which — much to the disappointment of sex toy providers — refused to examine the constitutionality of the ban. Under an Alabama law passed in 1998, selling a dildo or vibrator in that state can result in a year of incarceration and a $10,000 fine — and there are six other states where selling sex toys is illegal or greatly restricted, including Georgia and Texas (where schoolteacher Joanne Webb was arrested in 2003 for selling vibrators).
Sex Toys for Fun and Profit
Once upon a time the topic of sex toys was all but taboo for even the most "liberated" of women. This situation has changed, however, in part by mainstream media's open "normalization" of sex toys through hit television shows like "Sex and the City."