SAN FRANCISCO—As award-winning adult retailer Good Vibrations celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, the staff is sharing statistics from its recent sex survey.
Of 375 people surveyed, 30 percent said they learned about vibrators by watching porn. Almost 70 percent stated that they prefer vibrators that offer clitoral stimulation and more than 50 percent prefer using a wand type vibrator. Sixty percent of respondents confirmed they use a vibrator during solo and partnered sex. As for favorite location for vibrator use, 93 percent said in bed and more than 40 percent prefer when a partner uses it on them while more than 60 percent prefer vibrator use during partnered sex.
Eighteen percent of respondents prefer vibrating cock ring type vibrators and 35 percent prefer G-spot stimulation. The most important thing about a vibrator to people? Not just affordable price, but overwhelmingly body safe materials is the No. 1 priority to people surveyed. (Good Vibrations does not sell any product containing phthalates, the chemical softeners that raised concerns about toxicity in plastics.)
Good Vibrations founded International Masturbation Month in 1995 in the wake of the controversy surrounding the firing of former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who evoked conservative wrath when she stated that discussion of masturbation might have a place in sex education curricula. Realizing that one simple, sensible mention of solo pleasuring was enough to lose this prominent woman–the country’s first African-American surgeon general–her job convinced Good Vibrations staff that this most basic and accessible form of sex needed a serious image boost. Since that time others have followed suit and helped Good Vibrations spread the word.
“We have been talking to people about sex for 40 years and we know a thing or two about vibrators”- says Jackie Rednour-Bruckman, Good Vibrations’ executive vice president. “Pleasure should be celebrated and we invite everyone to stop by our stores and see what all the fun is about.”
For more, visit GoodVibes.com.
