Pleasure Products
Cooperation, Positivity Enables the Growth of the Pleasure Products Industry
The best part about growing older is the super swell things you learn about the world around you. A new fun fact that I just recently discovered is that people really don’t like to be told that they are wrong. They also love to point out when other people are wrong.
Pleasure Products Manufacturers Discuss Trends in Designs
When it comes to sex toys, one might think that not much has changed since the days of polished paleolithic siltstone. Form took a big step with the advent of plastics, and function allowed some innovation when electricity came along but, beyond that, the more things change the more they stay the same.
Owning Your Craft: Working in the Pleasure Products Biz
If you have this issue of XBIZ in your hot little hands while you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re in the adult industry. Yes, the adult industry. I like using that term because it covers so many aspects of our huge business and it’s a little tamer than saying “The Sex Business” although I like using those words to describe what trade I’m in as well.
JOYDIVISION, Cosmopolitan Partner for Pleasure Products Collection
JOYDIVISION, a major European pleasure products manufacturer, today announced a partnership with Cosmopolitan, the iconic international women's media brand, to develop a collection of products.
Tips for Landing a Job in the Pleasure Products Industry
“I want to be you!” the clerk in the adult store exclaimed. “You have the most awesome job and I want to do that, too!”
Manufacturers Discuss Market Growth for Male Pleasure Products
Re-appropriating the wise words of Daft Punk, men want to be “harder, better, faster stronger,” and are finally willing to put their money where their genitals are. Leaders from the novelty market, representing heavy hitters like Fleshlight, LELO, Pipedream and more, all agree that male sex toys are selling harder, better, faster — you get the idea — than ever.
Male Pleasure Products: Tapping Into the Profitable Market
A lot of the pleasure products marketing seems to target predominantly women and while that certainly makes sense I sometimes wonder if a huge swath of customers is being promotionally neglected. I’m referring to the males.
Q&A: Indian Pleasure Products Market to Reach $1.6B by 2020
With his pulse on the Indian pleasure products market, Samir Saraiya launched the country’s pioneering online adult retailer ThatsPersonal.com in 2013 with the hopes of becoming a major purveyor in India’s marketplace that’s expected to grow to $1.6 billion market by 2020.
Shades of Success: 2015 Looks Bright for Pleasure Products Sector
With a new year upon us and the crucial Valentine’s Day holiday looming on the horizon, it’s an ideal time to look at what leading companies in the adult pleasure products sector have lined up for the months ahead.
Pleasure Products Industry Vets Share Advice, Tales of Biz Past
Strong. Powerful. Long lasting. These words often describe the gizmos in the crazy world of adult sex toys but it also describes those people who have been in the industry for more than 15 years, mostly with the same company.
Innovating Pleasure Products By Syncing With Mobile Technology
Future gazing is always fraught with danger as in a few years someone is going to read this and have a good old chortle. I’ve done it myself, seeing letters I sent to magazines as a kid, indignant about some development in the field of IT, or how such and such a PC was superior to another.
2015 XBIZ Awards Recognizes Tech-Forward Pleasure Products, Leaders
Last night, industry leaders and innovators from the pleasure products sector were recognized for their outstanding contributions to the industry — both product-wise and for general impact — at the 2015 XBIZ Awards.
XBIZ 360 Pleasure Products Conference Explores Evolving Marketplace
The XBIZ 360 Pleasure Products Conference was held yesterday with a series of panel discussions exploring the tech innovations and current trends shaping the marketplace for women and men’s sex toys. Michael Topolovac (Crave), Brian D
Pleasure Products: Too Hot to Handie
It seems that women have all the luck and all the pleasure in the adult toy industry with gizmos made of quality materials with the latest technology, in an endless spectrum of designs, shapes and colors. And for the lonely guys out there, pretty much all they have are cock rings that vibrate or not, or the ubiquitous masturbation tube in different shapes, sizes, lengths but not much else.
Pleasure Products Manufacturers Bring Sex Education Into Focus
What role does sex education and concern for sexual health play in the manufacture and marketing of pleasure products? What value can be placed on the input of sex educators and experts? We contacted representatives of some high-profile novelty industry players and asked for their assessment.
Pleasure Products: Q&A With Tom Nardone on the Rockbox Finger
How did you come up with the idea for the Rockbox Finger, and why did you choose Lovehoney to help you develop the idea?
International: Foreign Pleasure Products Market Is Thriving
Across the broad universe of the adult entertainment industry, there’s a bifurcation in progress that tracks along the lines of divergent industry sectors. Businesses and revenue models that are content dependent continue to struggle, with some hoping to supplant their once mighty subscription revenues with advertising dollars and making a difficult transition to the ad-supported revenue model.
Shibari Gets 4 Pleasure Products Noms for 2015 XBIZ Awards
Southern California modern wand vibrator and pleasure products company Shibari has announced its receipt of four nominations for the 2015 XBIZ Awards.
Pleasure Products: Manufacturing the Message or Retailing the Brand?
During my extensive eavesdropping at July’s ANME, I couldn’t help but overhear two novelty heavies engaged in an intense and spirited conversation. Spit was flying as the heated debate roiled. What is the answer to the age-old industry question: Who is responsible for driving the brand message – the manufacturer or the retailer?