It's a multi-million dollar industry, which has clearly stepped out of the shadows. Housewives, 20-something single women, and men purchase the products. Need some help? Consultants are available. Not around to catch a movie on Sunday afternoon because you and your friend are going to attend a "passion" party down the street? Last but not least, all this can be environmentally friendly as well.
If you don't like toxic sex toys that may be bad for the environment and possibly harmful to you, you might want to check out a Portland, Oregon online retailer that offers products for adults that are PCV-free and phthlate-free. Phthalates are chemical compounds that are added to plastics to increase flexibility. The company is Earth Erotics. Go green!
China provides two critical
China provides two critical services to the United States. It is a major underwriter of U.S. debt and it is our major supplier of sex toys. According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, at the end of 2005, China had $820 billion in U.S. Treasury assets, the second-largest holder of U.S. debt after Japan. The Shanghai Star estimated that China, in 2004, accounted for 70 percent of global sex products -- one can only imagine that its share of the U.S. market is about the same. These two phenomena illustrate how sex is becoming increasingly integrated into the world market economy. The U.S. porn industry is estimated to be a $10 billion business. Porn merchants sell their wares to home consumers in many forms, including magazines and books, DVDs, cable and satellite television programs (through Comcast and Rupert Murdock's DirecTV), telephone and web services; they also reach weary travelers through pay-per-view services at nearly all the nation's hotel chains through Lodgenet and OnCommand. Even Virgin Megastore has gotten into the act, opening X-rated nooks in some of its hipper stores.
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