Zhang Xiaoyu, who has been described as “China’s first nude model” and is the self-proclaimed “China’s top nude model,” is apparently also a savvy businesswoman with a firm understanding of the importance of branding. We didn’t know this until Danwei reported it just now, but apparently on May 15, she “announced to her 450,000 Weibo followers the launch of her branded simulation sex toy.”

It’s called the “Zhang Xiaoyu reverse mold device,” and, uh, here it is. (Sex toy pic in that link, advisable you not click from work.)

Or as Danwei’s Neil Thomas describes it: “The device is a small-scale model of Zhang’s back, buttocks and thighs with a prominent vibrating simulation vagina, coming in a pack complete with lubricant and nude photographs of Zhang.”

The product page on the official Zhang Xiaoyu website claims the device is the “only one in the world’ to offer a “4D new orgasm experience” that literally “surpasses reality”. The device is capable of simulating vaginal muscle contractions, boasts of its lifelike texture, and comes with a prerecorded soundtrack of Zhang’s moans and cries of pleasure, which will “shout you to a pleasurable penetration”. It declares itself to be the “most realistic sex experience in the world” and allows you to “have sex with Zhang Xiaoyu to your heart’s content”.

It also comes with a pictorial instruction manual, and if you think that link is safe for work, we envy your workplace.

So, again, you can buy the sex toy here for 784 yuan, or get it through distributors for 580. “It has average reviews of five out of five stars from almost 200 evidently satisfied customers on online adult retailer Xmeise.com,” we’re informed.

And now, your news hook / nut graf, via Danwei:

Even though adult merchandise branded under the names of Japanese sex stars has been available in China for many years, Zhang makes the claim that this is the first time a sex toy has been endorsed by a Mainland Chinese celebrity.

The branded sex toy business – Zhang Xiaoyu (Danwei)

POSTSCRIPT: Zhang Xiaoyu models her replica vagina