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For the majority of business owners across the UK, the pandemic has meant lost livelihoods, redundancies and plummeting profits. But for one business owner – coronavirus is having the opposite effect. Mum of four, Jade Stanley, who sells sex dolls, says business is booming and sales have increased fourfold. She joins us alongside male sex doll, Jesse.
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now with many industries this is your
bit now
many industries taking a hit during the
pandemic others have
seen their businesses flourish yes jade
stanley who owns a sex doll company
has seen her sales quadruple since
lockdown was first introduced and she
joins us
alongside male sex doll jessie there’s
jessie look and she sent bella to keep
us company
this morning uh jade thank you for
joining us today so
so listen you’re a mum i think
originally you had a um a sunbed uh
business that you that you ran and in
2018 you saw a gap in the market uh for
sexton’s
so who exactly are you tailoring for
well we tailor for anyone um you know no
no age is a barrier male female
um our customers are you know there’s a
wide span
of our customer range um but in
particular obviously during block down
we have seen a surge you see because of
isolation
um issues you know surrounding people
so um so yeah you know we’ve young gold
anybody you were you noticed every
single time there was a
a change in the lockdown rules your
sales went up
correct yeah that’s right so we saw
surges so every time that
a restriction would come into place i
saw massive surges
but you see loneliness has always been a
massive issue and these dolls are
more than just what their primary
purpose is um they are very much
companion dolls
um so when people come to my website sex
doll official
you know they are they’re looking for
more
than just um a sex toy this is
very very much a companion this is
somebody to have sit
in your home um and bring a lot of
happiness into a lot of people’s lives
you know i’ve got can i ask you that but
how
how does it do that i mean i i
understand like obviously you say the
primary purpose is a sex doll and to a
certain point you go
okay fine but when it comes to the
companionship thing
it’s a it’s a doll it’s made of plastic
it’s not living
it’s cold to the touch i’m not sure
whether
i would feel more lonely having that in
my life than i would
just being on my own well
harley you’re fortunate to be married
and have children
there are a lot of people out there who
are not as fortunate and they actually
see
a dog as a presence a bit like having a
cat or a dog
in your home it is a present and
actually the dolls
they do warm up we can put voice boxes
in that’s always
quite a big request um so they can
actually there is an ai
function where they can talk to you um
in a fashion um it is the fact of i have
customers that buy the dolls to just sit
in a chair
or to actually lie in a bed it’s just
having somebody there
and that does unfortunately take the
place of a real person
social media these days has taken away a
lot of interaction and has made people
um very interactive online
but not so sociable outside and now that
we can no longer be sociable outside as
much
this is a really covered safe way of
being able to have a physical
interaction with someone you um you
charge about 1300 pounds for off the
shelf
um but you can customize up to 8 000
pounds what do you get for 8 000 pounds
so then you truly you you basically you
make the doll completely bespoke
to your liking so you would choose
everything um you choose all the
dimensions of the doll
any additional extras that you’d want
you’d have the hair
implanted which looks a lot better
um it’s a lot more aesthetically
pleasing so you just choose
every every aspect of that doll
you choose you design some people have
modeled them on
on partners that they’ve lost you know
like in bereavement
yeah yeah they have they haven’t and
that again has brought a lot of comfort
to
you know to people if that’s if that’s
what people want to do you know who are
we to judge or to criticize
it’s you know it brings them comfort in
their time of need
and so um remind me sorry what’s the
name of the doll that sat next to you
there
so this is jesse this is jesse so jesse
is one of your male dolls
he looks a bit shocked he does well he’s
on the telly he’s on this morning he
wasn’t expecting that
um you’ve seen an increase in male
dolls as well haven’t you i have yeah a
really large increase in male dolls
um there’s a massive market out there
um for you know yeah for male dolls and
transsexual dolls as well
you know really really big market and
have you been approached by couples
who want to uh to incorporate a safe
third person into the relationship
yes regularly the sec there’s the safe
threesome that’s uh
i mean actually i’m i’m actually in the
process of setting up like a pop-up shop
i am where i live
because i often find that couples in
particular they actually want to come
and view a doll before they purchase
so it’s something i’ve been toying with
for a while now and yeah i’m just
putting that into process now
and because you’d think that you know
the uh
people who are buying these online that
they like gosh that’s a strange image
isn’t it seeing those bodies hanging
like that
um yeah that’s really peculiar uh but
you you think um
people actually coming into a store and
sort of seeing you
it’s not so secret because you think a
lot of these people buying this online
they may not need want people to know
what they’re up to
but actually by by coming in it’s people
are quite open and and
up front about this yeah i mean i think
that
i think that i’m helping to change that
perception as well about about sex dolls
because there is so much more to them
you know it’s just so much more to them
i think they have had a bit of a bad
press you know a few years ago or
people have a perception of how they are
and i’m hoping that
me i’m helping to change that because
they offer
so much more than just sex and people do
want to come and view them
um they don’t always want to remain
anonymous
a lot of people do um but you know so
when you’re when you’re making such a
considered purchase
you know you would often like to come
and see what it is that you’re buying
you know
touch the doll feel the doll you know
get get a real feel for the product
um they um they’re they’re very i mean
they’re obviously life-size but they’re
also
pretty heavy it took three people to to
carry
bella in here uh this morning yeah um
where do people put them at home like if
your mum’s coming round or next to the
house do they go
do they go do they go under the stairs i
mean they’re too heavy to get up the
ladders into the attic what do you what
do they do with them
well you can i mean we sell storage
boxes on my website
um or you can buy a hangover yeah
where did the storage box go well the
storage box
the storage box you could maybe store
stuff on top of
um it all depends on the size of your
house i presume but
if the hanging kit you a lot of
customers actually put them in their
shower
they do in their bathroom they hang them
but i know yeah imagine how freaked out
you’d be if you went back to that
person’s house
it would definitely be a little bit of a
shock yeah um
jade thank you very much indeed um a
business thriving
i know well congratulations well done
yeah well done well done and we shall
send bella back
immediately yeah bye bella
thank you thank you very much can i just
say and i won’t name who it was but a
member of crew
came in this morning to the studio and
thought it was me sat
on the sofa had a quick look when the
lights weren’t fully up
shocking wasn’t i shocked this morning
you were shocked i was shocked
because they said you know my god did
you have a rough night
you
