Is this the best job ever? Cara Houiellebecq is a professional sex toy tester – and rakes in £15,000 a year having 15 orgasms a WEEK.
Saucy Cara has an office crammed with more than 2,000 raunchy toys, that she test drives for adult companies – before being paid to review each one on her blog.
The mum-of-two, from Lincoln, spends seven hours every week testing the toys since she became an erotic blogger five years ago.
The 33-year-old has sex toys delivered to her door four or five times a week and the toys have now become part of her everyday life.
Cara said: “Toys have always been a part of my private sex life – it gave me the idea to start writing about my sex life and I had the idea to start testing sex toys.
“It’s a great job, I’ve worked in a bank before but I’d never go back to that now – it’s never boring.”
The mother-of-two started her own blog with her toy reviews and began to get more and more hits.
Cara said: “Gradually my reviews became more and more prolific and I was noticed by a sex toy company who wanted me to work for them. Now manufacturers and sellers will ask if they can send stuff to me because so many people read my reviews.”
Cara worked at a sex toy website for two years – where she met her partner of four years – before leaving in February 2012 to set up on her own.
She has manufacturers from all over Britain sending her free toys to be reviewed and she also writes articles for companies as an industry consultant.
Cara has two children the eldest is nine and the youngest 19-months old – and makes sure never to talk around her job around the kids.
Sex toy testing is clearly a growth business, as just this week a company said it was looking for a man to give the latest gadgets a whirl in the bedroom.
Cara said: “My partner doesn’t see it as a threat – we always say that toys are the seasoning to a sex life – not a replacement.
“When I get toys for men he helps me with the testing – it’s a part of our lives now.”
