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How To Stay Married (So Far)
Nadia Sawalha and Mark Adderley chat through the latest sex toy trends from a major erotic trade fair, mixing frank detail with chaotic humour and marital banter. They compare fantastical gadgets with the power of simple flirtation, questioning whether connection might matter more than any device.
31:45•20 Oct 2026
Monsters, Tentacles and Flirty Lube: Sex Toy Trends with Nadia and Mark
Episode Overview
- Sex toy trends are shifting towards monster and sci-fi themes, with dragons, tentacles and alien-style designs becoming more common.
- Flavoured and even vibrating lubricants are gaining attention, though their intense sensations may not suit everyone.
- Realistic toys, including veiny designs and retractable foreskins, are making a big comeback after years of cutesy, cartoonish products.
- Silicone sleeves and "fat boy" sheaths offer ways to alter girth and length, showing how products target specific insecurities and preferences.
- Despite all the gadgets, a simple, genuine flirtation can have more impact than any toy, highlighting how important emotional connection still is.
“At the end of the day the nice little flirtation got her tickled more than her green lube.”
Curious about how long-term couples keep sex fun, weird and still somehow romantic? This chat between Nadia Sawalha and Mark Adderley leans straight into that question with a mix of laughter, chaos and very frank conversation. Basing their chat on a Cosmopolitan piece about Erofame – "Europe's largest erotic industry trade fair" – they talk through what’s hot in sex toys right now, from monster and sci‑fi themed gadgets to veiny, ultra-realistic designs.
Nadia reads out highlights about dragon tails, snake-shaped toys and purple tentacles, while Mark swings between fascination and utter horror: "If I came at you in the bedroom with a toy that was fluorescent with eyeballs on it, you'd think I'd gone insane." They also talk about flavoured and vibrating lubes, Japanese masturbation sleeves that "open like a clam", and fat boy sheaths designed to add girth or length.
Nadia keeps trying to lay out the trends calmly, while Mark heckles, questions, and throws in ridiculous side stories about friends slipping on lube in clubs and past partners buying actual animal hearts as romantic gifts.
Amid the silliness, there’s a more human moment when Nadia notes that, for the journalist at the trade fair, the thing that had the biggest impact wasn’t a gadget at all but a simple flirt: "at the end of the day the nice little flirtation got her tickled more than her green lube." It’s a neat reminder that connection can matter more than tech.
This one’s for couples and individuals who like their sex talk honest, slightly shambolic, and very funny, with plenty of real‑life marriage bickering thrown in. It might leave you asking: are you actually into toys, or just craving a bit more flirtation in your relationship?
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