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The top gifts for Valentine’s Day
The evening of Valentine’s Day is obviously still popular. It remains the opportunity (among others!) To test her relationship and her sensuality quotient. Have you been together for a long time or have you just met, are you parents or not, will you be tempted by the trend of the moment? Because know it, naughty gadgets, massage oils and other sexy accessories have invaded romantic evenings.
The origins of Valentine’s Day
Whether we find it outdated or purely commercial, we have all wanted, at one time or another, to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Celebrated around the world, February 14 is symbolically linked to Cupid, since Antiquity. At the time, “love” was celebrated with great pomp, as evidenced by the feasts dedicated to marriage in Greece or fertility in Rome, in the middle of February. In the Roman calendar, the day of February 15 was that of “Lupercalia”, the feast of Lupercus, the god of fertility. A legend even says that young women, touched by the priests of Lupercus, were supposed to be more fertile and give birth more easily.
The very identity of Valentine’s Day remains more vague. At least three different saints are named Valentine in the Christian tradition: Valentine of Rome, Valentin of Terni and another, a martyr who lived in North Africa.
It was in the Middle Ages that the tradition took shape. Pope Gelase I, in the year 1, fixes the date of February 498 to make it Valentine’s Day. It was not until the XNUMXth century that this specific day really became the day to celebrate love. At that time, lovers exchanged sweet tickets, it seems. In the XNUMXth century, greeting cards replaced the sending of tickets.
Valentine’s Day: soft eroticism in tune with the times
Meetings for women to choose the right sextoy, literary success “50 shades of Gray” on an SM relationship, stripping sessions for a hellish striptease, the erotic universe has experienced a real boom in recent years. Couples, with or without children, test soft experiences to spice up their sexuality.
Fleur Breteau, store communications director “Passage of Desire”, explains that sales of erotic objects for young parents have exploded in recent years.
Young couples are above all looking for discreet, silent objects or accessories that they can easily hide, so as not to attract the attention of children.
At his competitor “Room 69”, the absolute best seller is … the remote vibrating egg. It can be used in intimate games but especially in more daring scenarios, in public, in the street. In short, it would be the gadget to spice up (without much risk) a love life. Second big trend, the book “50 shades of Gray” has a significant impact on the sale of accessories related to submission games, always soft: whip, handcuffs, masks. The geisha balls, almost a full-fledged character in the book, also won all the votes. Note: geisha balls are a great way to tone your perineum after childbirth. Finally, sensual cosmetics (candle, massage oil, body powder) are still the best-selling sex toys because they are aimed both at an informed clientele but also at all those, and those, who wish to learn about it. sweetness to new pleasures. Christian Foch, creator of “Chambre 69” specifies that for Valentine’s Day, the best sales are made with naughty games, love checkbooks or boxes which make it possible to offer a gift that is a little naughty but not too involving.
Naughty Valentine’s Day during pregnancy?
Sylvain Mimoum, gynecologist and specialist in sexuality, recalls that the woman, once a mother, spends her time juggling two statuses: mother and lover. Everything will depend on his education. Some women will not be able to let go of their child, even when they are on the weekend with their husbands away from home. They will call all the time to stay in touch with their little one. While others, once the bedroom door is closed, will completely indulge their desires of femme fatales in the marriage bed.
Sexuality remains a challenge for the couple after the arrival of a baby, as confirmed by the survey carried out in early February by the site SexyAvenue.com: after the birth of a baby, 48% of couples have fully invested in baby care, putting their libido at half mast, but 12% managed to adapt.
Sylvain Mimoun evokes the particular period that is pregnancy for the sexual life of couples. Some women, not the majority, experience a surge in their libido when they are pregnant. In the SexyAvenue survey, they are even 51% to assure they had had an “explosive” libido during their pregnancy. And 46% of partners surveyed find “their half irresistible” during this period. If you are pregnant and tempted by a slightly spicy Valentine’s Day, you should know that sex toys are not recommended during pregnancy.