{"id":22677,"date":"2019-01-15T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T08:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/?p=22677"},"modified":"2024-07-23T03:10:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T01:10:36","slug":"new-sex-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/new-sex-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Sex Trends: Is this the Year of Polyamory?"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Phew* <\/span><\/p>\n

What a ride this year’s been. <\/span>Is there anything to look forward to in next 12 months? Will our spring of eternal hope keep on… springing?<\/span><\/p>\n

Spoiler alert: Yes! We’re confident that it\u2019s going to be an exciting year for pleasure-seekers, and that there\u2019s plenty coming for you to look forward to, so to speak.\u00a0 Here are the ongoing sex trends:<\/span><\/p>\n

Open and Polyam Relationships<\/span><\/h2>\n

Sex and relationships involving multiple partners<\/span><\/a> have been around for all recorded history, and beyond. But only now is there increasing acceptance of \u2018alternative\u2019 relationship dynamics. BDSM and kink were thrust into the public consciousness, in the wake of <\/span>50 Shades<\/span><\/a>. Now, the mainstream is being aware that more complex, and potentially more satisfying relationship styles are out there.<\/span><\/p>\n

The polyam community is long established, and there are plenty of really good advocates for it. <\/span>We will likely see these communities and dynamics explored in more understanding detail by the mainstream.<\/b> It\u2019s by no means a revolution, but it\u2019s a step towards mainstream recognition (if not approval\u2026 yet). <\/span><\/p>\n

Singledom & Gifting<\/span><\/h2>\n

Counter to the previous trend, one of the biggest trends we\u2019re going to see in 2021 is an increase in women remaining happily single later into their lives. This continues a trend that\u2019s been going on for decades: the average age for marriage in 1971 was 22.4 years old, in 2018 it was 31. <\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s new though, according to LELO\u2019s 2018 website data, was the exponential growth in women buying sex toys for other women. <\/span>Around Valentine\u2019s Day, LELO saw 14% of all orders being placed by women and sent to other women\u2019s addresses \u2013 up from 8% the previous year. <\/b><\/p>\n

Obviously, <\/span>not all those women were just \u2018gal pals\u2019<\/span><\/a> (wink, wink) but our customer service team saw a notable uptick in women <\/span>asking for advice for what vibrator friend might like<\/span><\/a>. The pattern becomes clear: women are more and more comfortable ordering intimate pleasure products for their friends – and we believe everyone should be so lucky to have a friend like that!<\/span><\/p>\n

We expect to see another dramatic jump this year, and long may it continue. Sending someone a sex toy as a gift is the best way to truly say, \u2018I value your happiness.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Sex Dolls<\/span><\/h2>\n

Sex dolls have been around for decades, usually of the shocked-looking inflatable kind with silly names like \u2018Roger More\u2019 and \u2018Anita Blowjob\u2019 – one of our staff famously won such an item with \u2018erotically glow-in-the-dark chest hair\u2019 at a college bingo game. \u00a0But 2021 might well see them take us all by surprise. <\/span>No longer haunting the dusty shelves of your local dingey sex shop, sex dolls are coming of age, with full silicone construction, (sometimes creepily) lifelike features, and fully articulating internal skeletons that offer a natural range of motion. And naturally, there are male and female dolls already available.<\/b><\/p>\n

Sex dolls have come a long way. Watch out, they\u2019re climbing up and out the other side of that uncanny valley, and they\u2019re coming for you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Artificial Intelligence<\/span><\/h2>\n

Related to, but separate from, the sex dolls above, 2021 will see the beginnings of an artificial intelligence revolution in sex. This is going to manifest itself in a number of interesting ways. The wheels are already in motion, but based on the creeping success of devices like Amazon\u2019s Alexa, sexual devices of all manner will soon be able to learn the patterns and idiosyncrasies of your pleasure and tailor themselves to you personally – though, we hope you aren\u2019t currently having sex with Alexa in the room, because really, she\u2019s just trying to give your recipes for baba ganoush and play Jimmy Buffet for you.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the serious side of things, why couldn\u2019t an AI sex doll use biometric data (heart rate, breathing etc.), to learn what you love and respond accordingly?<\/b> If a vibrator learns that you like it when it talks dirty to you, its algorithms will over time adjust its performance to find out exactly what it should say before you know it yourself. And this leads into the next upcoming trend\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

App Integration\/VR\/The Internet Of Everything<\/span><\/h2>\n

Sex toy apps have been around for a while and none have really been successful. In fact, they\u2019ve been boring, use-once-for-novelty affairs with no repeat play value. There\u2019s a reason for that: no one really knows what they want from a sex toy app. It\u2019s one of those things that, since 2014, sex toy manufacturers have just assumed they should have one, without understanding why. <\/span><\/p>\n

LELO launched a prototype male pleasure product, the <\/span>LELO F1S<\/span><\/a>, that includes an app developer\u2019s kit which allows savvy customers to essentially create their own app, to do whatever it is they want it to do. The F1S has a number of sensors and motors on board that send feedback to a smartphone, and can be manipulated however the user wants. The most useful of these apps will then be made available to the public. It\u2019s kind of like crowdsourcing the perfect sex toy app. <\/span><\/p>\n

We think this is the only way a sex toy app can rise above the rest and really succeed, because it\u2019s based on what the customer wants, instead of what the manufacturer thinks they should do.<\/b><\/p>\n

Male Pleasure<\/span><\/h2>\n

Related to the above, male sex toys will see another resurgence in 2021. The market is already excited about the launch of <\/span>LELO\u2019s F1S<\/span> (there are two variants); they\u2019ve been clamouring for us to make one for years. Little did they know we\u2019d been working on one that whole time. Two years ago, LELO kickstarted renewed (or new) interest in prostate massage when we launched the <\/span>HUGO<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>BRUNO<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>LOKI<\/span><\/a> massagers. The same looks set to happen again in the coming year, as the entire industry begins to treat male sex toys with the same reverence that we\u2019ve been treating female-focussed sex toys for years. <\/span><\/p>\n

Look out for a raft of new, higher quality male pleasure products in the upcoming year.<\/b><\/p>\n

Angrier Sexual Discussion<\/span><\/h2>\n

Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your perspective, we should also brace ourselves for a year of turmoil and upheaval. The wave of anti-misogynistic, pro-feminist, pro-equality sentiment is far from broken. In fact, it will be some time before that wave reaches its high-water mark and begins to roll back \u2013 many long, hard years of sacrifice lay ahead. <\/span><\/p>\n

We can expect to see <\/span>conversations about sex, consent, sexual equality and human rights<\/span><\/a> become increasingly fraught and heated. What we\u2019re seeing is the old order of sexuality being rocked to its foundation, and when it\u2019s cornered, it lashes out. Traditional sexual values are, necessarily, under threat, and those that seek to preserve and defend them are more vocal than ever. That\u2019s a positive sign, it means those with more progressive attitudes are winning. <\/span><\/p>\n

The fight won\u2019t be settled this year, but the debate around it will be more polarising and acerbic than ever in history. It\u2019s going to get worse before it gets better. <\/b><\/p>\n

Sonic Tech\/New Sensations<\/span><\/h2>\n

When it comes to sex toy design, one of the inherently limiting factors is our anatomy. It\u2019s becoming increasingly difficult to find new ways to stimulate the same nerve endings, so most sex toy companies design to a distinct theme: bigger, smaller, more powerful, more colourful, and so on. But nothing fundamentally changes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until <\/span>SONA<\/span><\/a> came along. The LELO SONA did away with conventional vibrations in favour of a completely unique system that relies on sonic waves to stimulate the clitoris. <\/span><\/p>\n

This offers an entirely new kind of sensation that delivers the pleasure much deeper into the body. It was an industry-defining moment \u2013 in fact, LELO\u2019s new F1S pleasure products feature the same technology. <\/span><\/p>\n

So, look out for an influx of sex toys that no longer rely on traditional vibrations, but on \u2018contactless\u2019 sonic technology.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*Phew* What a ride this year’s been. Is there anything to look forward to in next 12 months? Will our spring of eternal hope keep on… springing? Spoiler alert: Yes! We’re confident that it\u2019s going to be an exciting year for pleasure-seekers, and that there\u2019s plenty coming for you to look forward to, so to speak.\u00a0 Here are the ongoing sex trends: Open and Polyam Relationships Sex and relationships involving multiple partners have been around for all recorded history, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":22678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[37],"coauthors":[947],"class_list":["post-22677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sex-tips-advice","tag-sex-trends"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThinking of Trying Polymaory? 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