Across the Pond, Eveything Now Has a Soccer Theme

Everything. With the World Cup now exactly two weeks away, you'll find host country Germany blanketed with soccer-themed goods, from saugages to voodoo dolls to toilet paper to vacuum cleaners to "pork steaks, beer kegs, Swiss cheese, frozen spinach, barbecue sets, plastic food containers, biscuits, canned sausages and canned corn" and... sex toys.

Germany's thriving sex shop industry has also tried to capitalise on World Cup fever. One of the leading German erotic paraphernalia peddlers is marketing vibrators with names like "home team", "captain" and "hard shot on goal".

A poster seen at some German sex shops has a picture of two women in thongs, one squatting over a soccer ball in front of a goalpost. She wears socks with black, red and gold stripes -- the colours of Germany's flag.

Another woman sporting red and white -- the national colours of neighbours Austria and Switzerland -- lies on her back, clutching a vibrator.

"Our boys only rejoice after they've scored," the poster declares.

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