‘Bedroom Communities’ in More than Name Only
LOS ANGELES – A sales data study by online adult retailer Healthy and Active indicates suburbia may not be as white-bread as its reputation.
Healthy and Active ships more than a million dildos, Ben Wa balls, lube, wands, handcuffs, sex dolls and other toys each year — and just revealed the zip codes where the items most often go.
“Many of our most-shipped-to destinations — the zip codes that ordered the largest [number of units] and greatest variety of products — were often on the outskirts of town, in quiet little hamlets with cookie-cutter houses and picket fences,” the company noted. “‘Bedroom communities,’ if you will, not only order the most sex toys per capita, [but] they also order the most sex toys.”
Here are Healthy and Active’s top-10 list of suburbs where residents are getting down outside downtown.
10. Parker, Colorado (zip code 80138)
Suburb of Denver
Top seller: Bed Restraints
9. Virginia Beach, Virginia (23464)
Suburb of Norfolk
Top seller: Butt Plugs
8. Clover, S.C. (29710)
Suburb of Charlotte
Top seller: Handcuffs
7. Wake Forest, N.C. (27587)
Suburb of Raleigh
Top seller: Large Dildo
6. Oak Harbor, Washington (98277)
Suburb of Seattle
Top seller: Nipple Clamps
5. Katy, Texas (77494)
Suburb of Houston
Top seller: Cock Rings
4. Argyle, Texas (76226)
Suburb of Dallas
Top seller: Nipple Clamps
3. Chandler, Arizona (85225)
Suburb of Phoenix
Top seller: Cuffs
2. Cedar Park, Texas (78613)
Suburb of Austin
Top seller: Butt Plugs
1. South Miami Beach, Florida (33139)
Suburb of Miami
Top Seller: Ball Stretcher
Five top urban zip codes for sex toys:
1. Judiciary Square, Washington, D.C. (20001)
2. Belltown, Seattle (98121)
3. Chelsea, New York (10011)
4. Magnificent Mile, Chicago (60611)
5. SOMA, San Francisco (94107)