Sex Toys Selling Slot-Machines Oct 04, 2006

Formerly they were giving out chips and disgusting coffee. However nowadays slot-machines can provide you with an absolutely new spectrum of goods mini vibrators, bottles of love nectar (oral sex lubricants), silicon heads and lustful fingers.

Pubs and night clubs in the outskirts of London, Manchester and Newcastle started to offer a range of sex toys at the price of about 5 pounds per item that can be bought with the help of the fuchsia-colored Tabooboo slot-machine. As a rule, such machines are placed in lavatories to provide a potential buyer with some privacy. Yet some of the machines stand out right in the center of hairdressers attaching to the old saying Preparing for the weekend, sir? a new meaning.

Pub Alphabet in London West-end was the first to mount the slot-machine. It was placed against the wall in the center of the Pub. Manager Jeff Todd says that it's used every day. Some people use it just because it stands in the Pub, the others come here purposely: perhaps they’re ashamed of going to sex shops. Some of them buy sex toys to try something new, some – just for fun, and the others – to present to someone. This undertaking has great recall and demand".

Alan Lucas managing director of Tabooboo is planning to distribute such slot-machines all over the country and afterwards establish their export to the USA and Italy.

It's a challenge to the traditional notion about sex toys. A host of various goods are being sold, so I asked myself: why don't we make slot-machines selling sex toys? We're reasoning from the fact that people don’t like buying such things at the counter. All the goods are put into the packaging just twice or three times bigger than a block of cigarettes. We're selling mini vibrators as powerful as big ones. Most popular toy of the moment to date – vibrating ring for man. It costs 5 pounds.

Lucas continues: "The attitude to sex toys of the modern generation is different. We deprive these goods of pornographic associations by giving the opportunity to buy them anonymously, privately and in convenient attractive packaging.

Slot-machines with sex toys are swimming with the current of rapid growth of sex toys production by splendid companies such as Coco de Mer, Myla and Agent Provocateur, which hire designers to create works of art for sensual pleasure.

More unpretentious company Ann Summers, one of most profitable in Great Britain has an annual turnover of more than 155 million pounds.

In a new number of the Spectator journalist-catholic Pierce Pall Rid popularizing restriction of sexual appetites wrote that the idea of sex toys slot-machines seems monstrous: "Sex is not a game. These toys are absolutely horrible.

By the way according to the Daily Star, British football-player David Beckham presented his wife a vibrator costing $1,8 million: it is the most expensive sex toy in the world. It's made of platinum, incrusted with a 10 carat diamond and fixed on a necklace with a 16 carat diamond.