[lbo-talk] Sex Toys booming in these times

[Kevin Robert Dean]

China's embattled toy industry may be facing cutbacks and factory 
closings but the country's sex toy sector is booming, according to 
vendors at an adult trade show in Macao.

More than 3,500 toy factories — representing 52 per cent of the 
companies that make toys for children — have gone bankrupt as China's 
manufacturing industry struggles to improve its image following a series 
of massive worldwide product recalls.

But none of China's 400 adult toy companies — which produce more than 70 
per cent of the world's sex toys — has shut down operations. The sex toy 
industry is valued at $7 billion.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/12/15/china-adulttoys.html