The stay-at-home shutdown occasioned by coronavirus has turned many into a people of self-gratifying pleasure seekers eager to stay connected — sexual
The stay-at-home shutdown occasioned by coronavirus has turned many into a people of self-gratifying pleasure seekers eager to stay connected — sexually and intimately —during this anxiety-fraught period of extended social isolation thus causing the recent increase in the sale of sex toys.
Adult novelty companies have reported increased web traffic and surging sales, particularly in late March, after stay-at-home orders started being issued coast to coast. From America to New Zealand to Columbia, sales of sex toys are no doubt booming having gone up double digits in January and February compared with the previous year, before rocketing 100% year-over-year for the last five days of March.
At Ontario, California based CalExotics, founder and Chief Executive, Susan Colvin reported a 30% jump in internet sales toward the end of last month (though she pointed out the jump did little to offset the loss of wholesale bricks-and-mortar business). For Lelo, a luxury sex-toy brand headquartered in Stockholm, the rise was 60% over the same period, while Lovense, which focuses on internet- and Bluetooth-connected interactive toys (a field known as teledildonics) reported March to be the second-best-performing month in the Hong Kong firm’s nine-year history behind last Christmas.
People are also seeking advice and tips on how to navigate intimacy in the midst of the coronavirus-caused chaos. At Coral, a 6-month-old Culver City-based app that’s part sex coach and part digital intimacy guide (its motto: “a guide to horizontal happiness”), the number of new users shot up 45% last month with the number of users opening the app in just the last week of March rocketing 140%.
