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Sex toy products are not openly sold, but in fact, many shops still operate stealthily. This is an opportunity for products of unknown origin and contraband to flood the market, making management more difficult. Users encounter many unpredictable consequences from sex dolls.

The sextoy market has become an underground market, secretly selling rampant at "adult" shops, on social networks, especially shops disguised as "hanging goat heads, selling dog meat" in the area. Hanoi. Most of the items are contraband without labels, invoices and vouchers. Customers who often use sextoy are adults living alone, families with marital problems, disabled people, gay people... 

In recent years, a number of sex doll transport cases in Vietnam have been seized by the authorities. But the sale of this product is still rampant. 

In order to better understand the sextoy market as well as the operation of sex toy stores, we penetrated and investigated to better understand this business form. On social networking sites like Zalo, Facebook is rampant with shops selling sex toys. In addition, there are many websites set up to introduce and sell to customers such as shoptrai, shopmoihong... trading all kinds of sex toys. 

When accessing Google, type the keyword sextoy, within 0.19 seconds, get 2 million search results. Hundreds of sex toy products of all kinds are being publicly sold on the Internet. Customers want to buy as many stores as they can, just choose the item code, make an appointment to receive the goods, and the transaction is completed.

Visit the social network Zalo, a shop called Love Shop posts a picture of a sex product and includes a very detailed introduction about the item. We contact the phone number listed on the photo to make a purchase. After 2 rings, a woman answered the phone. “Sister, do I sell sex toys”? – the woman quickly replied: “There are all kinds of children, which ones do you like?” - "Give me a doll, how long will it take to deliver the goods if I send you the address?" "About 10 minutes, please." 

True to the transaction, the shop gave the person to bring the goods to the given address to offer for sale. The goods were put in a paper box by this person. When asked to show the goods, this person immediately opened the box, pulled out the goods, placed them on the bed, and used the pump to pump the doll. When inflated, the doll looks like a real person with a length of 1.5m. The price for a love doll is 1.1 million VND. “This cheap product is made in China, this just needs to be pumped up and used, no instructions at all. This baby is being ordered by many people, the store only has this one. If you don't take it, it's out of stock tomorrow," said the delivery man.

In Hang Chieu Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, sex toys are sold right on the sidewalk. At night, each tree stump is a woman sitting on a plastic chair holding a black glossy bag, then wandering around the neighborhood offering customers items such as aphrodisiacs, sexual aids, buyers will be directed to a secret lane to view and purchase. The goods are hidden and the seller is very wary if customers ask a lot. 

Many shops on Hang Chieu Street, outside only sell condoms and lubricants, but going deep inside, there is no shortage of products about sex toys. All items have no labels, no origin. When asked about the warranty, the seller promises an oral warranty. 

Entering a shop selling adult goods, we asked the salesperson: "Are there sex toys?", the salesman answered yes and introduced fake vaginas, dildos, massage machines, etc., imported goods. Taiwan, American goods, prices only range from a few hundred thousand to 1 million dong/product.