Just how many men own a chastity device?
New data from Amazon suggests quite a few...
How many men own a chastity device?
It’s easy to get sucked into a kinky bubble, and assume your fetish is more universal than it is. Even so, there are indicators that it’s reaching the kind of critical mass that vibrators must have done back in the day.
Male chastity has appeared in various TV shows including Californication, and there have been articles in various mainstream publications. More intrepid chastes report passing through airport security without question — it’s common enough not to trigger alarms — and apparently, if you order a male chastity device from Amazon, it can arrive really very quickly, meaning Amazon predicted the demand and stocked it in a local warehouse.
Amazon, of course, doesn’t release its data. However, Amazon US helpfully lists bestsellers and their monthly sales. I worked through both male chastity cages and female vibrators and got this data:
Note that cage sales are spread between the top models, whereas vibrators seem to be more winner takes all. Once you get past the top 7, the numbers tail off for both, so I stopped there.
What this tells us is that women purchase something like 25 times as many vibrators as men purchase chastity devices.
We don’t know how many American men own chastity devices — otherwise I wouldn’t be doing this calculation. However, we do know from several surveys that roughly 60% of US women own a vibrator.
60% x 2.5 / 64 = 2.34% US men own a male chastity device.
This gives us a ballpark figure similar to the 2.5% I calculated based on the Cellmate data leak.
The underlying assumption here is that the average man buys chastity cages at the same rate as the average woman buys vibrators.
On the one hand, chastes tend to get through more than one cage before settling for the perfect fit. However, there’s no particular benefit in variety and cages don’t generally wear out.
On the other hand, women’s anatomy is varied so they probably try more than one vibrator, variety does have a benefit, and vibrators do wear out, especially the rechargeable ones.
So I think this calculation is about right. What do you think?
An admirable analysis, even if it is next to impossible to really know what's going on with Amazon and sales. For me, the more engaging question is how men might be expanding their idea of what sex is and that it might not always be (as sex therapists say) "productive". We've known for a while now that the brain is the largest sex organ, so it seems that men may be realizing more and more that pleasure can exist in a cerebral space without needing (physical) climax or even genital stimulation.
I’m no expert but I get a lot of my cages through Temu. Because the prices are so low compared to US prices and are the same products as I have interchange parts. There are some on eBay also and shops like oxsiy? That have cages at good prices along with other sites that I did not list so seeing this I would say that the number is higher but how many men wear them daily? I bet that number is lower. World wide market I bet lots of men wear them. Why we wear them? Before sex it can be great foreplay. For the true chastity lovers keeping their domms or wives happy or extended foreplay. For me it’s everything plus not having a consistent size the cage gives me that larger look and if in public I get hard I’m never embarrassed because I can’t go any further. So I imagine it’s like wearing a bra it is good but needs to come off once in awhile. Anyway I have multiple sizes the biggest problem is ring size I hope manufacturers catch on and sell rings both metal and plastic for extra convenience. I know as I lose weight my ring size needs to decrease. Good article thanks