Sex shops are a bigger deal in China that you may think.
So, you are taking your first trip to China and you can not wait to see how Starbucks are over there. You hope they are any different than your local ones, at least all those muffins and other baked goods. While taking a ride from airport to your hotel you start noticing something weird. There’s little to nothing Starbucks there compared to the amount of sex shops they have. You smile and quickly forget about the coffee and cookies. It looks like you will be treating yourself differently. After all, you do need a little break from all the coffee you drink back home and there is no better way than doing it by visiting shops for adults.
The coffee conglomerate has 1,500 shops in China what is just a tiny island in the sea compared to the amount of sex shops they have over there. Operated by Alibaba, Taobao lists thousands upon thousands sex toy companies located in the country. Guess which are the hottest sex toys? Bingo, if you guested stimulus condoms and vibrators. Moreover, with one-child policy, there are approx 116 boys born to every 100 girls. This being said, China has 33 million more men than women. Unfortunately many men are living sex-free lives what is causing increase in sex dolls sales.
According to XBIZ, China produces a whooping 70% of world’s sex toys of which most get exported to Russia, South Africa and South Korea. Surprisingly, only 2% “made in China” sex toys get shipped to U.S.
With the huge amount of sex shops and companies in China, sex toys industry generates more than $2 billion annually.
Sexuality might be considered a taboo in some places of China but overall it’s far from it. If you will ever take a trip to China, book extra luggage because the amount of fun toys you will buy yourself in all those sex shops is, for now, unimaginable.
To stay on track, enjoy yourself in some Chinese porn.