Can’t go out on a date? French lovers turn to sex toys for Valentine's Day
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Can’t go out on a date? French lovers turn to sex toys for Valentine's Day
Can’t go out on a date? French lovers turn to sex toys
for Valentine's Day
Deprived of lavish restaurants and forced to stay at home at night to curb the spread
of the coronavirus, French lovers are turning to sex toys to spice up their Valentine's Day.
"Maybe at a time when everything seems forbidden, sexuality has become one of our
last bastions of freedom," said Patrick Pruvot, founder of the Passage du Desir chain
of sex toy stores.
In the three months running up to this year's Valentine's Day, sales at the Passage du
Desir's seven outlets jumped 68 per cent on previous months. A year earlier, sales
rose by just 12 per cent during the same period ahead of Feb 14.
Candy cuffs and other sex toys line the shelves of Pruvot's store, surrounded by
shuttered restaurants and cafes in central Paris. Large heart-shaped red boxes with
filled with 14 toys for the bedroom bring a Valentine's Day twist to an advent calendar.
"We would normally go to a restaurant but that's going to be a bit difficult. So I thought
it might please him to show him some attention," said Maryne Fraudin, 21,
as she browsed the merchandise for a kinky game for her and her boyfriend.
France prides itself as a nation of seducers. Seduction influences not just how
the French relate to one another, but how they do business, define style,
elect politicians and enjoy food and drink, wrote Elaine Sciolino in her book
La Seduction.
For a long time, the French were slow to accept sex toys, a taboo that had been
slowly wearing off before the pandemic left many couple with more time on their
hands at home, Pruvot said.
"The COVID crisis sped up the trend," he said.
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