Trojan Brand Condoms company launches online cookbook including sensual bread recipes and food photography

 
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While couples are spending more time together at home, a recent survey, ‘Trojan Survey April 2020’, showed that only 19% of people are having more sex with their partner, while 37% are baking more instead. So just in time for #WorldBakingDay Trojan and 72andSunny New York have created a cookbook called ‘Rising Time’ with 69 pages of sensual baking recipes and surprisingly sexual bread photography.

 
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