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Making sex toys

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Making sex toys

Although the number of manufacturing (secondary) industries in New Zealand has declined in recent decades, some new companies make and sell their products direct to the consumer, rather than to other companies. Ema Lyon (left), Wendy Lee and Nick Mercer of the Wellington-based company Dvice Design, make and sell sex toys, as well as importing them for resale.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/2000/0106/15

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Ganesh Nana, Industrial sectors – Industrial structures, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23147/making-sex-toys (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ganesh Nana, published 7 December 2009.