How many dildos is $15 Billon?

[JackLuis]

What the $15 Billion Sex Toy Industry Tells Us About Sexuality Today

Doc Johnson, based in North Hollywood, CA, is on of the leading sex products suppliers. According to a feature piece in Los Angeles Magazine, it's the "Procter & Gamble of sex toys.” It claims, “each month the company pours 125 tons of rubber, manufacturing 330,000 dildos, vibrators, and synthetic buttocks.” The article estimates that the company generates over $100 million in sales through brick-and-mortar and online retailers like Hustler Hollywood, Adam & Eve and Amazon.

And that's just one company!

Clearly there is a need for more stimulating literature!

 

[slyc_willie]

What the $15 Billion Sex Toy Industry Tells Us About Sexuality Today



And that's just one company!

Clearly there is a need for more stimulating literature!

I'm in the wrong business. I should ask the wife to cast my dick so we can retire and buy a villa on Mexico's southern coast.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I remember, when the only dildos available were some old fart's dick cast up in dirty putty-colored rubber. Or you could get hard plastic vibrators shaped like umm... nothing useful.

That's when I made my first one-- I'd read that the Romans had ones stitched out of leather and stuffed with straw and- damn if it didn't work! My first cottage industry. I made them and sold them at craft fairs-- under the table, with stuffed toy kitties and ponies on top.

True story.

 

[slyc_willie]

I remember, when the only dildos available were some old fart's dick cast up in dirty putty-colored rubber. Or you could get hard plastic vibrators shaped like umm... nothing useful.

That's when I made my first one-- I'd read that the Romans had ones stitched out of leather and stuffed with straw and- damn if it didn't work! My first cottage industry. I made them and sold them at craft fairs-- under the table, with stuffed toy kitties and ponies on top.

True story.

My understanding is that you make hand-crafted wooden ones, Stella . . . .

 

[TE999]

Synthetic buttocks? I wonder whose ass they cast in plaster to make that mold?

 

[slyc_willie]

Synthetic buttocks? I wonder whose ass they cast in plaster to make that mold?

Dunno. Whose ass you wanna fuck?

 

[Stella_Omega]

My understanding is that you make hand-crafted wooden ones, Stella . . . .

Yes http://dendrophil.com (But don't try to buy from that site, I have to replace the shopping cart) But if you want the Roman experience I can make the leather ones still.

Soon though, I'll be revolutionizing the whole biz. Or anyway, my corner of it. I'm going to grab a piece of the Doc Johnson market. Got a biz plan and putting together a team and the whole shit. Stay tuned...

 

[slyc_willie]

Yes http://dendrophil.com (But don't try to buy from that site, I have to replace the shopping cart) But if you want the Roman experience I can make the leather ones still.

Soon though, I'll be revolutionizing the whole biz. Or anyway, my corner of it. I'm going to grab a piece of the Doc Johnson market. Got a biz plan and putting together a team and the whole shit. Stay tuned...

We have an assortment of toys for use on the wife when we're in the mood. Most are of the polished and expensive variety. But . . . hmmn. We *might* be looking to expand our repertoire . . .

 

[Handley_Page]

Yes http://dendrophil.com (But don't try to buy from that site, I have to replace the shopping cart) But if you want the Roman experience I can make the leather ones still.

Soon though, I'll be revolutionizing the whole biz. Or anyway, my corner of it. I'm going to grab a piece of the Doc Johnson market. Got a biz plan and putting together a team and the whole shit. Stay tuned...

Makes me wonder about the phrase "got a woody" in a new light

 

[Stella_Omega]

We have an assortment of toys for use on the wife when we're in the mood. Most are of the polished and expensive variety. But . . . hmmn. We *might* be looking to expand our repertoire . . .

I'll run and raise my prices.

Don't you use any of your toys on yourself?

 

[slyc_willie]

I'll run and raise my prices.

Don't you use any of your toys on yourself?

Not much into toys myself. They don't do anything for me. But using toys on Secret is fun, especially when combined with some light bondage and our sex furniture.

 

[TxRad]

Not much into toys myself. They don't do anything for me. But using toys on Secret is fun, especially when combined with some light bondage and our sex furniture.

Sex furniture is something I thought about giving a try when I retire.

 

[slyc_willie]

Sex furniture is something I thought about giving a try when I retire.

We have a couple wedges. My wife says her orgasms are often stronger when her pelvis is elevated above her head. But it takes her longer to get there. We also have a swing, but we don't use it often since it has to be assembled and we just can't leave it out when Little One's home.

 

[TxRad]

We have a couple wedges. My wife says her orgasms are often stronger when her pelvis is elevated above her head. But it takes her longer to get there. We also have a swing, but we don't use it often since it has to be assembled and we just can't leave it out when Little One's home.

I have some ideas for some stuff that serves dual purposes and can be left out or easily converted with a couple of flips.

 

[slyc_willie]

I have some ideas for some stuff that serves dual purposes and can be left out or easily converted with a couple of flips.

In our case, it's not whether or not it's recognizeable. We just don't want Little One playing on what she thinks is a hammock.

 

[annanova]

Yes http://dendrophil.com (But don't try to buy from that site, I have to replace the shopping cart) But if you want the Roman experience I can make the leather ones still.

Soon though, I'll be revolutionizing the whole biz. Or anyway, my corner of it. I'm going to grab a piece of the Doc Johnson market. Got a biz plan and putting together a team and the whole shit. Stay tuned...

You make those? They're gorgeous, Stella.

We have a couple wedges. My wife says her orgasms are often stronger when her pelvis is elevated above her head. But it takes her longer to get there. We also have a swing, but we don't use it often since it has to be assembled and we just can't leave it out when Little One's home.

I have friends with a swing and two kids in the house. Their solution is that the kids are not allowed in the master bedroom.

I have some ideas for some stuff that serves dual purposes and can be left out or easily converted with a couple of flips.

Now that sounds fun!

 

[slyc_willie]

I have friends with a swing and two kids in the house. Their solution is that the kids are not allowed in the master bedroom.

Easier said than done in this house. She is very curious about everything.

 

[mynameisben]

If you figure your average, no-frills workaday dildo can be had for $30, then the $15 billion dildo industry cranks out a half billion dildos every year. Then if you assume half the world's population of 8 billion are women, then that's only one dildo for every eight women per year world-wide. Another way to look at is every woman on the planet buys one new dildo every eight years. Clearly, there's plenty of room for growth in the dildo industry.

 

[Dyslexicea]

I remember, when the only dildos available were some old fart's dick cast up in dirty putty-colored rubber. Or you could get hard plastic vibrators shaped like umm... nothing useful.

That's when I made my first one-- I'd read that the Romans had ones stitched out of leather and stuffed with straw and- damn if it didn't work! My first cottage industry. I made them and sold them at craft fairs-- under the table, with stuffed toy kitties and ponies on top.

True story.

Speaking of home made sex toys.

http://www.inbedwithmarriedwomen.com/2011/03/7-things-i-learned-at-homemade-sex-toys.html

 

[Safe_Bet]

Speaking of home made sex toys.

http://www.inbedwithmarriedwomen.com/2011/03/7-things-i-learned-at-homemade-sex-toys.html

Thanks, Dyslexicea! 'Cuz of that link I now have a new app for my iVibrator... I mean iPhone...

http://www.thefrisky.com/2009-06-19/myvibe-first-vibrator-app-approved-by-apple/

 

[Stella_Omega]

If you figure your average, no-frills workaday dildo can be had for $30, then the $15 billion dildo industry cranks out a half billion dildos every year. Then if you assume half the world's population of 8 billion are women, then that's only one dildo for every eight women per year world-wide. Another way to look at is every woman on the planet buys one new dildo every eight years. Clearly, there's plenty of room for growth in the dildo industry.

My experience is that men buy more dildos than women. As in-- more than one at a time.

But many guys buy them for women.

It's interesting. Only lately, with the advent of the internet have I discovered any other women-- or anyway people in female bodies-- that design sex toys. That think about them, think about shapes and changes that might make a toy work especially well. Make them look better. And suddenly.. toys don't look like dicks so much.

Doc Johnson says that women will only buy pink dildos. i'm fine if they want to believe that.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have some ideas for some stuff that serves dual purposes and can be left out or easily converted with a couple of flips.

Transformers.

That's what I always wanted to work with. Robots that can convert into sex toys.

With cool Transformer names like "Vibracon" and "Dildabot" There could a robot that looks like a police officer and turns into handcuffs as well.

Yeah, there were some long days at the comic book store and these are some of the things I would come up with.

 

[Handley_Page]

If you figure your average, no-frills workaday dildo can be had for $30, then the $15 billion dildo industry cranks out a half billion dildos every year. Then if you assume half the world's population of 8 billion are women, then that's only one dildo for every eight women per year world-wide. Another way to look at is every woman on the planet buys one new dildo every eight years. Clearly, there's plenty of room for growth in the dildo industry.

More, I think, than you imply.
How many of those 8 billion women have access to a dildo, either from tradition, religious or ethical beliefs.

 

[TxRad]

Here is a weird one for ya:

It's illegal to own more than five sex toys in Texas.

Yeah, one of the religious right in the state senate didn't like his wife having all the fun she wanted.

 

[TE999]

Dunno. Whose ass you wanna fuck?

Not being interested in driving on the Hershey Highway, no ones, really.

I know that there's a plastic pussy sold called a Fleshlight, then would this plastic asshole be called a Buttlite?