Good vibrations sex shop

In August , employees of sex toy retailer and education center Good Vibrations in Boston successfully completed a six-week strike held in response to, among other problems, a lack of COVID related safety practices in their store from company management. This is the story of how their strike came into existence and how solidarity among coworkers and perseverance led them to success in their movement. We started the year with a team of around 12 employees, most of whom including myself had been at Good Vibes for more than two years. We had a wide range of intersectional identities gathered around this cause of providing free education and quality, yet empathic, consultation on sexual health and wellness products. Folks went above and beyond in our stores, coming up with dozens of original workshop concepts and exploring everything from community-sourced, trans-specific sex education, to how different star signs might interact sexually.

Yes, sex toys are among the consumer products seeing a surge in popularity amid the social isolation of the COVID pandemic, according to Carol Queen, staff sexologist at Good Vibrations. Good Vibrations, which has nine stores in California, one in Cambridge and one in Brookline, has closed all of its physical locations indefinitely due to the pandemic. The spike in sex toy sales fits into a larger trend of people looking for distractions during the pandemic, according to Queen. What do I do to make my days as livable and as pleasant as they can be? Now is also a time when many are tackling items on their to-do list, such as trying a new recipe, starting a hobby or expanding their horizons. It also helps that social isolation frees up some extra time.

Startup Europe. Grown up reporting. Sextech — technology to enhance and improve our sex lives — has grown from having a seedy reputation, consigned to the shelves of sex shops, to a multimillion euro digital industry in recent years. This is partly due to the fact that women buy more sex toys than men , but now, sextech startups are increasingly designing products to help men keep it up, stay stronger and last longer in bed than ever before.

The Harvard Square location is its second in the Boston area, joining the seven branches in the California Bay Area and one in Brookline. In addition to selling a wide variety of sex toys and other products, Good Vibrations holds educational workshops on sexual health and pleasure. In an emailed statement, Lita D.