cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16991987
An online shop has started selling women’s worn knickers, dirty socks and used tampons, netting sellers healthy additional incomes.
The website is called Sububis, which means underwear in Latin, and its founder, a 32-year-old woman who wishes to remain anonymous, set the business up to sell lingerie and underwear worn by various men and women in October 2021.
She also reportedly sells used bras, socks and shoes. A pair of worn female underwear goes for about $120, while a pair of dirty socks goes for about $44.
“I kept hearing from acquaintances who receive enquiries on social media as to whether they want to sell their underwear.”
This gave her the idea to offer these items online so that the sellers and buyers can remain anonymous and never have to meet.
“Anonymity was not guaranteed during the payment process and that put many people off, although they are not fundamentally averse to the business,” she said.
A friend of the woman reportedly told her that she was stalked by a buyer on Instagram after selling a similar item. The experience reportedly scared her so much that she stopped selling these items online.
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But the founder said that she does not want to sell her own items on the platform, saying it would be “too intimate for me”.
“I want to make a clear distinction. If I knew who was getting my clothes, I would feel like I was giving too much away,” she said.
Instead, a total of seven women and men are selling their worn underwear on the platform, which has been operating since October 2021.
“It is going very well. We have several orders a day, I’m already recruiting new ‘subabes’,” she said.
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Underwear and socks reportedly sell the best. The shop reportedly only has male buyers at the moment. There is reportedly a growing demand for tampons and worn period pads as well.
I saw a documentary about people in this area of the sex trade and there was a woman doing a brisk trade in used undercrackers - she bought multi-packs from M&S, cracked open a tin of tuna and was rubbing tuna water into the gusset. It really helped boost her productivity. That’s the kind of outside-the-box kind of thinking this country needs to get off it’s knees.
Weird that.