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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Brits Buy The Most Bondage Gear


Recession in Britain is making scenes like this rarer, despite the massive importation of bondage gear. And my vote for the product mentioned at the end of the article is rope. It's the essence of bondage gear, really. Image source. Sex and Submission.com.

The British tabloid "The Sun" reports that Brits imported more bondage gear than any other European nation. It's based on a survey conducted by online marketer Alibaba.com, which carries bondage gear among many other sorts of products. The article was accompanied by a weaksauce pic of a hottie in a leather teddy brandishing a whip, but not bound in any way. (As you can see, it's easily topped.)

Love dolls were reported to be the top seller in the general category of sex toys, responsible for four out of every ten purchases. The article speculated that the surge in blow up doll sales -- up 240 percent -- was due to the recession, with Brits seeking ways to have fun and stay home.

This is just sad. You can't afford to go out for the night and so you buy a sex doll to play with? I believe the proper response, even for hardened bondage freaks, is "Eeeeewwww!"

Fortunately, I doubt very much if there is a lot to the story, and there's not much to it to start with. The Sun was just looking for an excuse to get a mildly kinky, faux-bondage image into its pages. Success looks so much like failure, when you are a mainstream publication.

No word on what the most popular item of bondage gear was. Of course. But I'm confident about the answer I put in the caption above.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Quick question: are they the biggest buyers of bondage gear, or the biggest importers?

Pat Powers said...

The article is a survey of a big online seller and refers to "purchases" and "purchasers" so the answer would be "buyers."