In 2017 it was very common to have a conversation about sex toys on the train, tube, bus stop or any social gathering. If you are not aware of this you must have missed out on a little trend known as the 50 Shades of Grey phenomenon. Yes, the three-part best selling novel about a certain Mr. Grey who has a little red room of pain and enjoys kinky sex opened up the society to have conversations about whips and handcuffs. Does that mean people were not into sex toys before 2017?

Believe it or not sex toys have been found as far back as 28,000 B.C. — an 8-inch siltstone dildo to be more specific, vibrators date as far back ast 1902 and the first sex shop opened in 1974. So needless to say, aid for sexual pleasure has existed throughout history it just took its sweet time to become popular.

The truth about sex toys is they are not just for ‘out there’ kinky sexual encounters, or 50 shades of grey like relationships. A survey in 2009 by Recce and Debra Herb alongside associates at Indiana University showed that 46% of women use vibrators for self pleasure and 37% use them during sexual intercourse with a partner. 44% of women between the ages of 18 and 60 have used sex toys in general.

The high demand in sex toys is evident in the numbers. The industry is estimated at a whopping 15 billion dollars annually! This money is coming in from the global population. Sex toys fly off the shelves to be shipped and delivered to eager users. In 2017 one of the biggest online sex stores, Lovehoney released its statistics for the previous year which included the awesome statement “If you stacked all the dildos Lovehoney sold in 2016 on top of each other, it would reach 51 miles into the earth’s atmosphere. That’s the equivalent to 9 Mount Everests.”

Statistics aside, sexual pleasure has always been a pinnacle part of humanity. It has also always been a journey of self exploration. Ancient civilizations left their own interpretations — and in a way tips — for future generations, through stone carvings, writings and the worldwide known kamasutra. In this modern day and age where new inventions appear every day to improve the quality of human life and heighten their pleasure, sex toys cannot be dismissed.

The topic of sex toys lurked from the shadows of locked bedside drawers and the back of cupboards when a mainstream novel became a best selling book followed by a blockbuster movie. 50 Shades of Grey gave women and men the opportunity to discuss sex toys under causal pretences. If we return to numbers, following the release of the movie, sales of sex toys used by the main characters spiked by 400%. Two years following the movie sex toy sales grew by 30%.

For some, this may be the classic egg and chicken debate, but 50 shades of grey did not introduce a new concept, it shed light on a very prominent concept and pulled it up to the main stage, allowing people to accept it as the norm. Everyone’s hidden fantasies were validated and they no longer felt left out of society for having them.

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