As the manager of Naughty North, Carolyn Eagle knows a thing or two about pleasure. More specifically, she knows about what toys and sex aids people tend to enjoy when they’re looking to enhance their pleasure.
And yet, when the outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, began to rapidly shut down whole countries, Eagle would have guessed demands that people stay home would lead to a spike in sales of “kinky stuff.” After all, is there a better time to be a little more adventurous in bed than when you are indefinitely shut in?
So far, Eagle laughs, she appears to have guessed wrong. “Many people are so stressed out,” she says, “so maybe their mind can’t go there right now?” Nevertheless, people’s minds went somewhere: