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?
I wonder, how many of those chastity are bought by women while buying their vibrators? Luring a submissive to his oral and anal fate is top priority for some women.