By clothing-bag, 03/12/2022

The used underwear business – Yorokobu

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Selling your used underwear is a very profitable business. You only need to calculate that a more or less flashy piece of underwear can cost about six euros at Primark and once used, its value can be around between 35 and 65 euros.

Excluding shipping costs and the time invested in wearing the garment for several days, the profits are not negligible.

One of the main web pages that manages the used panties business in Spain is Secret Panties. There they explain that getting started in this business is really easy. It all starts with looking for a garment that you want to sell, with the ease that "it doesn't have to be a new garment, sometimes buyers even like well-worn ones better."

Management is just as simple and takes place anonymously. A person creates an account as a seller on the web without revealing his identity, uploads a photo of the used garment and sets a price that, according to information, is full for the seller and reaches his bank account (appearing as a company so that it does not give rise to suspicions in the bank statement).

The client interested in the garment will contact us through the web. And for shipping they have also planned a simple way: «The first thing is to find a bubble envelope to put the garment. Fold the garment well and wrap it in plastic wrap or an airtight bag. It is a way of presenting it pretty and it will also preserve its aroma. When preparing the envelope, you can add a detail such as a lollipop or a love note. I'm sure your buyer will love it!"

Why sell my used panties?

Roser Amills is a journalist, writer, and one of the salespeople for Secret Panties. He does it out of curiosity and, above all, because he likes it. "I don't know if the same will happen to other women, but I am excited by the whole process: from listing it to shipping it and then imagining what this stranger might be doing with my garment."

Because not only can it be exciting to imagine who was wearing them, but also what the person who buys them does. «I imagine, for example, that the buyer will smell them, get excited and masturbate with them. Or he will wear them to play, or he will put them on someone... I also imagine them in a pocket to go to work with extra joy. It's something that excites me."

Talking about her own experience, Amills explains that the best sellers are not French lingerie, but the most basic. «What is most successful are the most normal panties, made of cotton and worn. They buy thinking about that intimacy of the garments that women show less ».

Regarding the process, he certifies that it is as simple as described on the internet. «The web accepts the order, notifies me and gives me a couple of days to use the panties that have been sold. Then I put them in a plastic bag, in an envelope, and a courier comes to pick them up." That easy.

A Common Fetish

The motivations for selling used underwear seem pretty clear. However, it remains to be clarified what motivates someone to buy someone else's used underwear online.

Sexologist Verónica Vivero points out that this type of fetish "is known as burusera, and it is a type of practice that has been widespread since the 1980s in Japan"; They are sold, above all, by schoolgirls. Currently the Japanese "are ahead of us, since there are even vending machines for this service."

Little by little it is an increasingly widespread practice in Spain and Europe, «since it seems that it is ceasing to be a taboo subject, and the truth is that more and more people are using this resource to get rid of a bonus."

Regarding the motivations of the person who buys, Vivero points out that "the main arousal motor is obtained from the smell of the garment used, since in most cases, the person does not know who has been wearing it" .

However, fetish garments of well-known people can be found on the web, such as Roser Amills. On this subject, Vivero adds that “many also find it exciting to know that a certain person has worn it, for example a celebrity (someone the fetishist admires) or a lover (current or past); in fact, many collect clothes from the people they have had sex with.”

The uses of these garments can be varied. "Many collect them as if it were a jewel of exquisite value and only use it to smell it." Others, however, "need to have her by their side during masturbation."

It is worth mentioning a third group, "although we would talk about another type of fetishism, which would be those people who get excited wearing the used underwear of others, because the simple fact of seeing themselves with it already arouses desire", without it have nothing to do with cross-dressing.

He also adds that it is a more common fetish in men than in women, since "men have a somewhat more socially worked visual channel than women as a means of arousal and, therefore, when faced with an image, their display of fantasy is greater.

In this regard, the sexologist reflects that despite being something less and less taboo, "it continues to give some followers a complex." Thus, the work from sexology is to “try to demystify the prejudices and taboos that exist around the world of sexuality. What's wrong with having a particular taste? If we act accordingly, we will be more congruent with ourselves.

Verónica Vivero concludes with the idea that «if we stop to analyze the taste and preferences of each one, we will see that possibly we all have some fetish in our lives; It's about exploring it."

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