More than 20 years after Sex and the City’s famous ‘Rabbit’ vibrator, sex toys are a multi-billion dollar industry but still largely unregulated | niltiac
’s famous "Rabbit" episode made vibrators chic, sex toys are getting official safety standards for the first time.
"Sex toys can be made cheaply in huge quantities and sold to consumers seeking fast, affordable gratification – it’s a multi-billion dollar market." "Probably it will firstly be down to materials, making sure the materials that manufacturers are using in the toys are to the correct standard and then they'd go on to design features."
Grand View Research estimates the global sex toy industry is worth $US26.5 billion a year and growing 9.1 per cent a year, with higher growth for toys aimed at women.
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