As America stares down the barrel of a second wave, pandemic-weary folks are searching for alternatives—scratch that—“acceptable substitutes” for human intimacy. And you know what? Scratch “human.” Right about now intimacy, human or otherwise, would do nicely, thank you.
So it should come as no surprise that some retailers are seeing massive spikes in sex doll sales. This summer Vice, by way of Happy (“News and Entertainment from Australia’s favorite youth publisher”) spoke to retailers and manufacturers Down Under who confirmed that, yes, sex dolls’ sales have jumped significantly since the pandemic’s onset.