Dear Sasha, I just read a Google alert you wrote to Crystal about my work [“Crystal dildo persuasions,” May 14]. Thanks so much for the mention! Just to let you know, there isn’t much you can do with the most sensitive part of the body being “the eyeball” other than, of course, using beautiful toys to help seduce yourself or your partner. What I was suggesting was that the anus is more sensitive than the vagina, which I’m sure you know anyhow. Another pointer is that you should steer people to what they’re looking for if they come to you for that purpose.
I do an exquisite rose quartz piece with a sterling silver base. Rose quartz is used for healing in Tantric practice, which inspired this design. I could never ejaculate until I used a six-ridged, highly polished quartz because it causes added friction to the G-spot and vagina wall entrance. Crystals, like all penetrating toys, should not be shared.
The crystal actually comes to embody your personal energy (if you believe in crystal healing and energy). As long as you clean the item well and make sure there are no surface cracks, that’s fine. Crystals can help remove blocks people may have towards sexual penetration. I was personally introduced to crystals in this way by a Tantric healer. If you’re about bringing people what they want and bringing people together, I suggest you forward this to Crystal.
On another note, fur is a very sensual material as is feather, which is used in Tantra. My feather tail on my Minx vibrator is completely detachable with jewellery finish. It’s used for the purpose of sensual tickling because a sex toy is not just about penetration and lube.
-Shiri Zinn
Dear Shiri,
How about I just forward it to everyone? Because if there’s one thing I’m definitely “about,” it’s making sure that the lovable mystic ding-a-lings amongst my readership know just what they’re buying and from whom. Thank you then, for taking the time to personally confirm that your products are created by someone who at one moment is drawing on pseudoscience and vague spiritual platitudes concerning the healing energy of rose quartz and the next is endorsing diamond encrusted snakeskin whips and fox-tailed butt plugs.
Now, I myself have inconsistent ethics around animals (love ’em, eat ’em, wear ’em) but I do know that for fashion, snakes are often skinned alive and that even farming them humanely is considered impossible since they take so long to grow. This forces the question: does their tormented energy embody the end product, and if so, will this impede positive sexual vibrations?
Zinn couldn’t answer this question when I e-mailed her, she only said that, “People who are into whipping are not overtly into Tantra. The two are very different approaches to sexuality.” I dared her to Google SM and Tantra. She then called me a bitch, to which I said, “It’s a bit silly of you to give me pointers on how to do my job then get vexed with me and call me a bitch when I do.”
On the topic of the anus being sensitive, animals cultivated for their fur are anally electrocuted with an instrument that looks not unlike a high-end sex gadget except, you know, it’s used for the big death not the little one. Zinn said she actually uses fake fur to embellish her molten glass butt plug (marabou, to be more precise, which you’ve probably seen stitched to the cuffs and hemlines of cheap lingerie and which is not fake fur but feather) though this is misleadingly revealed in the lavish photography that accompanies her eye-popping price tags. Sex columnist and anal sex expert Tristan Taormino had seen the item in question up close and up told me, “It is my understanding the fur is real.” It was, said Zinn, but just for the prototype.
Holy fuck, I need a vacation…
And speaking of unfortunate deaths…by now you’ve probably heard that rather than go back to prison for running a high-end escort agency, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, “The DC Madam,” committed suicide by hanging.
For the conspiracy theorists amongst you, Palfrey’s client roster included Randall Tobias, Bush’s first global AIDS coordinator and a man who emphasized policies opposing prostitution, and David Vitter, the Republican senator who opposed same sex marriage and funding for abortion clinics. Last year, Susie Bright interviewed this articulate and controversial woman on her podcast. You can find it here: susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/.
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