A visit to a Japanese sex toy manufacturer factory (video)
Hot Powers is best known as a retailer but it also produces its own toys to great acclaim and success.
One example is the high-quality Favorite Things Hole, which take the best elements of a masturbator and packs them into a single toy.
It was created in collaboration with the YouTuber efty, who is known for innovative use of 3D printers to make stuff.
We were exploring efty’s YouTube channel and came across this video made of a visit to Hot Powers’ factory in Saitama, which probably marked the start of their creative collaboration.
We once visited the factory of renowned sex doll manufacturer Orient Industry, but most toy manufacturers’ facilities are not located so accessibly.
As such, we were interested to see inside the Hot Powers workshop. Though it’s a short video at under three minutes, it highlights the almost mundane reality of making sex toys: they begin life as various colorful materials in tubs and cups, as rubbery parts in a bucket, and then are heated and stirred in pots to get the right consistency, before being placed in molds to set and, finally, their all-important inner holes created with a kind of plunger tool, and then the finished toy is pulled out of the mold.
Perhaps spare a thought for the hardworking artisans who make your pleasure a reality the next time you reach for a sex toy!
Hot Powers’ line of toys are available internationally, along with literally thousands of other great Japanese sex toys, from our friends at Kanojo Toys.
2 Comments
Are most Japanese sex toys made in Japan or in China?
@Lee Mroszak
Certain manufacturers like Toy’s Heart tend to use Chinese factories but many, if not most, are made in Japan. There are also some brands like XTC and Seiraku that appear Japanese in their packaging, but actually seem to be Chinese companies.