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- Aside from penis shapes, animals are the most popular “shape” for dildos
- Silicone, steel, Pyrex, glass, or specially laminated wood are the only safe materials.
- The most expensive vibrator will blow your mind. White gold and covered with diamonds, it retails at $55,000.
- Different countries like different sex toy colors. Belgians like orange. French like light purple.
- The main age demographic is between 20 to 45 years old.
- Married women are more than twice as likely to use a vibrator.
- There are companies that will make molds and copies of your penis to make into a customized dildo.
- Sex toy companies are a 15+ billion dollar industry.
- Fifty Shades of Grey is responsible for the surge of bondage sales.
- Some sex dolls have internal heating systems.
- There are no safety regulations for the sex toy industry as the FDA considers them “novelties.”
- One of the fastest-growing subsets of the market are Christian sex toys, marketed to couples who want to use them as part of their marital relations and without porn.
- After the 1920s, when vibrators started making appearances in pornographic films, the devices were pulled from advertisements well into the 1970s.
- It’s illegal to manufacture or sell sex toys in India, Malaysia and South Africa.
- China currently produces 70 percent, the vast majority, of the world’s toys.
- It’s illegal to own more than six dildos in Texas.
- The oldest-reported dildo is 30,000 years old and was unearthed in a German cave.
- Ancient Greeks had olisbokollikes (“dildo breadsticks”) since 400 B.C.
- One of the first vibrators, The Tremoussoir, was invented in France in 1734.
- And the first electric vibrator is credited to be invented by Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville to relieve muscle aches.
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