Emerging Markets: Toys for Adults

You may or may not be surprised, but toys are becoming extremely popular. Sex toys, that is. The market for high-tech sex toys is booming (link to NYTimes' article...), and it's making their inventors (and consumers) very happy indeed.

Just last week, a man unveiled his $7000 talking sex robot (link to CNN's article...) invention, of which he apparently has received hundreds of orders already. I don't know how much it costs to produce each one, but if there's a market for something this outlandish then the simple doodads and hoosawhatsits out there to tickle your "fancy" must be selling like crazy.

I live with 5 girls that are in a sorority (Craigslist...another post, haha). I've recently learned about "slumber parties" or just referred to as "parties" where a sales representative comes and sells sex products to a group. The point is that one of these parties sells about $700 worth of items.

In Australia and Germany, for instance, I've seen sex shops on main streets that look like a small Best Buy store. Non-discreet nor shameful, they were almost classy. It's a more open kind of thing there, I suppose.

What I'm saying is that someday you'll wish you had thought of the iPod of sex toys and had the guts to move the idea forward.