Agriculture and Cooperative Minister Chalermchai Sri-on has floated the idea of promoting Thai rubber to make sex toys and sell them on the global market, in a bid to raise the value of Thai rubber.
The minister made a Facebook post yesterday saying he had decided to process and promote Thai rubber in the sex toy market to generate revenue in the country under the concept of “Sex Toy — Made in Thailand”.
“It’s about sexual well-being. In 2021, the global sex toy market was estimated at 1.3 trillion baht!” he said.
The sex toy market has grown 300% in the past five years and is expected to reach 2 trillion baht in 2030.
He hoped the idea would boost the income of rubber farmers and result in the building of a Rubber Industrial Estate to systemise production processes, together with introducing economic tourism, increasing rubber exports and covering all types of rubber processing.