Johannesburg, Dec 23, 2025 (AFP) - Erotica goes mainstream as South Africa's sex stores flourish

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2025-12-23

The poster is fixed to lampposts all along the main street of an upscale Johannesburg neighbourhood: a finger pressed to full red lips, the word "Luvland" split by a heart. At the corner of the street is one of the brand's 80 South African boutiques. On a continent where sex shops are few and far between, if not banned outright, South Africa is an outlier. The country's flourishing sex store sector developed from the ambitions of a few flamboyan......

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