Can You Buy Your Way to a Better Sex Life?
Its neck is long and smooth, curved like a swan’s. It senses when you’re near and glows violet, whirring, then dispenses perfectly warmed-up lube right into the palm of your hand. For about $270, The Pulse Warmer will do what can easily be achieved by rubbing your hands together a few times. If that’s not doing it for you, how about a smartphone-controlled sex toy that uses sensors to track your body heat and pelvic-floor movements as you masturbate, charting your orgasms in real time? That’ll also set you back around $260. Or what about a 24-carat gold-plated G-spot vibrator? Yours for $18,000.
As a sex and relationships journalist, I often think I’ve heard it all…
... until something new comes along that’s either completely genius or so eye-rollingly outlandish that I find myself yelling into my laptop. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for people doing what they want to improve their sex lives (as long as they’re safe). But with the sex toy market valued at around $38 billion in 2019 (even before multiple lockdowns saw sex-toy sales rocket), our sex lives are being commodified. And the more that
