I haven't giggled this hard in EVER. Just the picture of some old Pakistani grandmother holding up a whip...priceless. And the two deadpan and shy brothers made me smile.
"Recently, when a curious employee inquired about the purpose of the sleep sack, a sleeping bag-like product used in certain kinds of bondage, she was told it was a body bag for the American military in Iraq."
Yep. That's our military -- so messed up that fetish equipment could conceivably be used by them for non-sexual purposes.
Ah, well. At least these guys are making a buck. I hope that they pay their employees well!
@LocalStMary: Well, for one thing, they don't cover the head from what I can tell. Also: "The wearer is placed in the sack, many sacks have zipped internal pockets to secure the arms at the side and to prevent the wearer from moving them. Once the arms are secured the sack is zipped up. Most sleep sacks also have rows of d-rings either side of the zip to allow the sack to be laced tightly around the wearer." If I was sewing that and was told it was for a corpse, I would be mighty suspicious.
I loved this story. That being said, I wouldn't buy this company's gear (fetish fashion stuff is different). I have a lot of experience with kinky gear, and companies run by "vanilla" people very rarely get it right. The best toys are made by people who play with them, because they understand what their kinky customers need.
@trianaorpheus: I'm seeing a variation on those Christian Children's Fund commercials: "For just the purchase of a leather flogger, you can feed a family for a day."
@mervbaby: I was shocked how good that movie was! I was expecting so little, and it's incredible. I guess just because it came so soon after No Country...
I love on the bonus features where Ethan says, (paraphrasing), "It's a movie about high level government business and the world of physical fitness. Two worlds that rarely are examined together..."
@mervbaby: I agree. I really feel like I have to watch it another 20 times before I'll understand exactly what happened. Still, when Clooney was building the chair, with stuff he bought at Home Depot... priceless!
Y'all. My current was a virgin until us, and he is so vanilla it HURTS me.
It's honestly a problem. He waited until his 30s to get laid (Catholicism probably had something to do with t hat, though he swears he was just waiting for the right person), and I honestly think his sexual fantasies are along the lines of soft-focus Victoria's Secret models in pretty frilly things. Which is sweet.
I don't want sweet, I want dirty. And I can't get him to play along. The boy won't talk dirty to me - won't even TRY - and even slightly rough play makes him uncomfortable.
He doesn't even seem to want sex all that much. He wants to kiss. A lot. It's...sweet. Really. But I clawed my way to my sexual prime, and it took me forever, and I am really GOOD at sex and I really LIKE sex and I can handle my own orgasms, but I do have to have someone willing to at least, you know, play along a little bit with me.
I try to talk to him about this and he just gets all shruggy and says that he doesn't like talking about it. Makes me feel like an oversexed hoor. I seriously don't know that i want to spend the rest of my life with this otherwise amazing, stellar creature if the sex is going to be beige.
@♥ dosido☮: Plus holy shit he likes sex in the morning and I can't put a sentence together before noon, much less give a passable blowjob. All I want in the morning is coffee, a cigarette, and NOT TO BE TOUCHED.
Jesus, the more I write about this the more it makes me despair.
When I ask my boyfriend what his fantasy is, he's usually like, "Sex on a beach."
"Yeah but how?"
"I don't know. In the sand."
"You haven't thought about this?"
"I don't know. Why are we talking about this?"
"Well, what position?"
"Me on top, I guess."
"That's seriously your deepest, darkest fantasy?"
He's totally lying (he must be right? No one's deepest fantasy is sex on a beach!) and now I know who to blame. The patriarchy ;-)
As for me, I had very little trouble telling him my deep fantasies, but since they pander to ideas of male dominance, I suppose it was acceptable for him to acquiesce.
Both women and men suffer from a virgin-whore dichotomy. Women tend to suffer more on the "whore" side of the spectrum and guys suffer more on the "virgin" side. Although, a woman can be prudish or frigid and a guy can be a man-slut, a womanizer, or player, as well.
Why can't we just enjoy the sexuality that comes to us naturally, without society coming in and telling us "too much, too soon" or "not enough?"
Right, but there's a really good reason for this (not to say it's right). Kinks are, at their base, all about power dynamics. A man isn't allowed to express desire to be in a subordinate position in a power dynamic because that's anti-masculine. But a man also isn't allowed to express desire to be in a dominant position, sexually, because we as women have been trained to see that desire as threatening due to rape culture. Whereas if a woman expresses a desire to be dominant, that's thrillingly different (or something?) and if she expresses a desire to be subordinate, that's acceptable according to societal norms. It's an odd conundrum.
@baraqiel: That's a really good point. I mean, how many kinks are there for a guy that doesn't make him seem like a wimp or a rapist? MFF threesomes? Sexy lingerie? Are those even kinks?
@B3K: It's hard, too, because I'm a sub and my boyfriend's a dom and I like it that way but honestly sometimes he scares me, and I can't help it. And I like it anyway! But still.
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Yep. That's our military -- so messed up that fetish equipment could conceivably be used by them for non-sexual purposes.
Ah, well. At least these guys are making a buck. I hope that they pay their employees well!
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"No, no, no... you are doing it all wrong... here, let me show you... always use downward strokes, like this..."
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(b) I was skeptical that the workers wouldn't figure out what they were making until I saw that first item and couldn't really figure out the point.
(c) Why can't we have pretty buses like they do in Pakistan?!
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I love on the bonus features where Ethan says, (paraphrasing), "It's a movie about high level government business and the world of physical fitness. Two worlds that rarely are examined together..."
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It's honestly a problem. He waited until his 30s to get laid (Catholicism probably had something to do with t hat, though he swears he was just waiting for the right person), and I honestly think his sexual fantasies are along the lines of soft-focus Victoria's Secret models in pretty frilly things. Which is sweet.
I don't want sweet, I want dirty. And I can't get him to play along. The boy won't talk dirty to me - won't even TRY - and even slightly rough play makes him uncomfortable.
He doesn't even seem to want sex all that much. He wants to kiss. A lot. It's...sweet. Really. But I clawed my way to my sexual prime, and it took me forever, and I am really GOOD at sex and I really LIKE sex and I can handle my own orgasms, but I do have to have someone willing to at least, you know, play along a little bit with me.
I try to talk to him about this and he just gets all shruggy and says that he doesn't like talking about it. Makes me feel like an oversexed hoor. I seriously don't know that i want to spend the rest of my life with this otherwise amazing, stellar creature if the sex is going to be beige.
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Jesus, the more I write about this the more it makes me despair.
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"Yeah but how?"
"I don't know. In the sand."
"You haven't thought about this?"
"I don't know. Why are we talking about this?"
"Well, what position?"
"Me on top, I guess."
"That's seriously your deepest, darkest fantasy?"
He's totally lying (he must be right? No one's deepest fantasy is sex on a beach!) and now I know who to blame. The patriarchy ;-)
As for me, I had very little trouble telling him my deep fantasies, but since they pander to ideas of male dominance, I suppose it was acceptable for him to acquiesce.
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Why can't we just enjoy the sexuality that comes to us naturally, without society coming in and telling us "too much, too soon" or "not enough?"
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