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Category growth has slowed amid cautious consumer spending, but consumers remain invested in their sexual health. The industry is far from slowing down, with innovation in the space booming, driven…
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US Sexual Wellness Market Report 2025
"While sales have slowed in the short term, an evolving category holds potential for further premiumization and deeper engagement."
Rebecca Watters, Associate Director, Household & Health
Category growth has slowed amid cautious consumer spending, but consumers remain invested in their sexual health.
The industry is far from slowing down, with innovation in the space booming, driven by mainstream integration with the broader wellness category, and fueled by rapid advancements in technology, greater inclusivity and increased product accessibility.
While the perception of sexual wellness has shifted from taboo to a key component of overall health, encompassing physical, mental and emotional well-being, these advancements are occurring against a backdrop of increasing cultural conservatism.
Brands and retailers have the opportunity to cater to consumers’ interest in a more engaging and personalized experience that puts as much attention on health and connection as on pleasure.
This Report Looks at the Following Areas:
Sexual wellness product usage
Understanding the current level of sexual activity and category participation
Sexual wellness shoppers preferred retailers
Shopping for sexual wellness products
Attitudes toward hormonal contraception
Attitudes toward sexual wellness
Sexual wellness sales and market share trends and the key factors influencing them
Trends in sexual wellness product innovation
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
What you need to know
Outlook for sexual wellness
Opportunities
Lend scientific rigor to health-supporting benefits
Tap into new areas of health with condition-specific solutions
Brands and retailers have an opportunity to help shoppers navigate the expanding array of options
THE MARKET
Market size and forecast
Consumers and the US economic outlook
As contraceptive access grows, policies could strengthen fertility market
The effect of US tariffs
Growth slows for sexual wellness
Market size and forecast of sexual wellness
Graph 1: total retail sales and forecast of sexual wellness products, at current prices, 2019-30
Retail sales and forecast of sexual wellness
Modest growth of lubricants unable to offset other segments’ weak performance
Graph 2: total retail sales of sexual wellness products, by segment, at current prices, 2019-25
Retail sales of sexual wellness, by segment
Most big competitors decline amid gains for “others”
Sales of contraceptives and sexual health products, by company
THE CONSUMER
Prioritizing the essentials
Graph 3: sexual wellness product usage, trended, 2023-25
The contraception market is evolving…
…and future markets will see greater options and access
Demand for autonomy and choice echoed in contraception usage
Graph 4: contraception usage, by age and gender and age and household income, 2025
Make tests an asset to hormone health
Graph 5: ovulation prediction and pregnancy test usage, by pregnancy status, 2025
Leverage advancing technology to turn threat into opportunity
Mainstreaming of sexual wellness is a golden opportunity for retailers
Graph 6: in-store vs online, 2025
Premium should pivot and explore new partnerships amid retail shifts
Younger shoppers seek education, discretion and value
Graph 7: select shopping attitudes and behaviors, by generation, 2025
Younger shoppers seek education, discretion and value
Address uncertainty to support contraceptive adoption
Tech can deliver science-backed, personalized and discreet wellness experiences
Modernize sexual wellness for the childfree consumer
Graph 8: select attitudes toward sexual and reproductive health, by pregnancy status, 2026
Position products to support the spectrum of sexual interests
Integrate pelvic health benefits to strength value
Graph 9: select attitudes toward sexual wellness, by female and age, 2025
Integrate pelvic health into broader sexual wellness narratives
Market extreme tightening and hydrating benefits to support the GLP-1 user
Expand condition-based formulations and marketing
Continue the commitment toward representation
Brands bring diversity: message for the body part, not the person
Creating a community guarantees success beyond retention, making it a resourceful investment for the sexual wellness industry
Appendix
Market definition
Consumer research questions
Consumer research methodology
Generations
Abbreviations and terms
The market
Forecast methodology
Forecast fan chart methodology
Retail sales and forecast of sexual wellness products, at inflation-adjusted prices
Household spending on sexual wellness products
Retail sales of sexual wellness products, by segment
Retail sales and forecast of contraceptives
Retail sales and forecast of contraceptives, at inflation-adjusted prices
Retail sales and forecast of personal lubricants
Retail sales and forecast of personal lubricants, at inflation-adjusted prices
Retail sales and forecast of pregnancy and ovulation tests
Retail sales and forecast of pregnancy and ovulation tests, at inflation-adjusted prices
Retail sales of sexual wellness products, by channel
Sales of contraceptives, by company
Sales of personal lubricants, by company
Sales of pregnancy and ovulation tests, by company
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