What to Do With Those Sex Toys...When You're a Parent
Years ago I was on an advisory board for a company that sold sexual accessories. Back then, it only sold its wares through a paper catalog. The Internet became an vehicle for selling sex toys just as my position on the advisory board was ending -- and what a vehicle it has become!
Many years before having this advisory board position, I had run my own small sex toy company called As You Like It (a tribute to my former intention of becoming a high school English teacher). This paid my bills through grad school and gave me incredibly valuable experience speaking in front of groups (ranging from five to a thousand and ultimately on national TV and radio).
In the five years I spent doing in-home presentations of sexual accessories, I met over 7,000 people (99% women). We talked about their difficulties, their pleasures, their mates, and all the other things that women like to gab about when we get into groups. It worked very well to sell products this way because women considered such gatherings both a shopping opportunity and a social event!
One colleague of mine who was finishing up his Ph.D. in psychology at UCSF once commented to me that he thought my talks were the sneakiest form of adult sex education he'd ever seen! I had such fun explaining concepts like what caused lubrication to occur for women and what could interrupt it or ways for women to learn to become orgasmic (explain, not demonstrate) -- the products just sold themselves.
In any event, I digress. At each advisory board meeting, we would be asked what trends were going on culturally when it came to sex. Were there any products that should be included in their line of offerings? Should any new ones be invented?
I vividly recall one of the other advisory board members saying that a product needed to be created that cleverly disguised itself as a container for sex toys to keep them private from children in the household. At that point, I had no children. The idea seemed somewhat esoteric. He suggested that a rather boring looking winter coat have inside it all sorts of zippers and pockets to store sex toys. After all, most kids would pass right by such a coat in their parents' closet.
I now have a five-year old and a nine-year old and I couldn't agree more!!
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Many years before having this advisory board position, I had run my own small sex toy company called As You Like It (a tribute to my former intention of becoming a high school English teacher). This paid my bills through grad school and gave me incredibly valuable experience speaking in front of groups (ranging from five to a thousand and ultimately on national TV and radio).
In the five years I spent doing in-home presentations of sexual accessories, I met over 7,000 people (99% women). We talked about their difficulties, their pleasures, their mates, and all the other things that women like to gab about when we get into groups. It worked very well to sell products this way because women considered such gatherings both a shopping opportunity and a social event!
One colleague of mine who was finishing up his Ph.D. in psychology at UCSF once commented to me that he thought my talks were the sneakiest form of adult sex education he'd ever seen! I had such fun explaining concepts like what caused lubrication to occur for women and what could interrupt it or ways for women to learn to become orgasmic (explain, not demonstrate) -- the products just sold themselves.
In any event, I digress. At each advisory board meeting, we would be asked what trends were going on culturally when it came to sex. Were there any products that should be included in their line of offerings? Should any new ones be invented?
I vividly recall one of the other advisory board members saying that a product needed to be created that cleverly disguised itself as a container for sex toys to keep them private from children in the household. At that point, I had no children. The idea seemed somewhat esoteric. He suggested that a rather boring looking winter coat have inside it all sorts of zippers and pockets to store sex toys. After all, most kids would pass right by such a coat in their parents' closet.
I now have a five-year old and a nine-year old and I couldn't agree more!!
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Technorati Tags: sexuality, parenting
6 Comments:
When that coat gets donated to charity imagine the surprise! It brings new meaning to the term "goodwill".
What a great idea - not! Writing an article with a provocative headline and then suggesting using a product that doesn't even exist.
What to Do With Those Sex Toys...When You're a Parent? Really? This is a lame post. 6 paragraphs of which five are not germane to the subject.
We put ours in a letter size document safe. Unless the kids learn the combo it's all hid
I had a bedroom nightstand that I had custom made. It was large enough to accommodate from the smallest toys to the largest ones. It had two doors, the one in the front led to a small compartment just big enough for the TV remote controls. The door in the rear, (lockable) led to a larger compartment which had room to be able to arrange any size toys by size. It also had to small shelves to store lubricants, dvds or a small supply of condoms. Still this cabinet was small enough to place a night lamp on top of it. To date, all my secrets have been safe from nosy children.
Funny. I was thinking the same thing a while back. My kids are old enough to find our special toys. We got this Lockable Vibrator Case from VibeReview.com that, while it can't keep them completely out, is stylish enough that it can be hidden without them wanting to know what it is. As far as they know, it's more of Mommy's boring makeup.
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