On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Kevin Robert Dean <qualiall at roadrunner.com
> wrote:
> 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
>
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