One in two French people said they were ready to offer a sex toy for Christmas, revealed a survey carried out last year by the AGL group. Main motivation of potential buyers, the desire to spice up their life as a couple. There is no doubt that the sex toy is no longer taboo. Having become a marketing tool, it is now found in supermarkets, in different forms, organic or not. >> To read also: The best organic sex toy for health?
Some stars have also decided to surf this new fashion, do not hesitate to customize the erotic object to include it in the range of their derivative products. the Sex toy Mylène Farmer Encrusted with faux diamonds and delivered in a black coffin-shaped box is a case in point.
Vibrator: the end of a taboo?
If today the sex toy sells, it has not always been so. Its democratization took place gradually. While Americans have tasted the joys of the vibro for thirty years, French women have waited in recent years for it to become a really trendy object to use it and agree to talk about it freely.
Today the tongues are loosening. In an international study on erotic behavior carried out by Casual Dating* November 30, 2011, the French reveal a little more about their use of the sex toy. We learn that 22% of couples would use a sex toy. France has a rate well below its European neighbors and comes last in the ranking. At the top of the list is Austria, with 43% of Austrian couples who admit to spicing up their married life with a sex toy. Are the French too shy? In any case, only 15% of French women say they fully enjoy solitary pleasure with a vibrating duck and other erotic toy. A reluctance that we find among the Spanish (19%) and the Italians (14%).
The release of the film “Oh my god” which tells the true story of the invention of the vibrator by a British doctor will perhaps generate new impetus? >> To read also: “Sex toy: it is the English who invented it”
* Survey conducted online by Trend Research between August 18 and August 1er September 2011. 5,670 people in 11 countries (France, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Brazil) were interviewed for the purposes of the survey.
