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Dear Sasha, I’m currently unemployed and would like to find a job in the sex/fetish industry. Not as a performer but as an administrative assistant or secretary. I’ve tried looking for sex toy manufacturers’ Web sites and all I get is porn. Can you help? I enjoy this lifestyle, and want to work behind the scenes in some way.
—DB
Dear DB,
I think a good way to proceed would be to visit the Web sites of any one of the left-leaning sex shops in Canada as they are the most apt to carry Canadian-made products. Have a look at the sites comeasyouare.com, goodforher.com, joytoyz.com, redtentsisters.com, venusenvy.ca and womynsware.com and begin by perusing their product sections. Jot down companies that are local to you and start sending out e-mail inquiries about job opportunities.
Perhaps you’d even be interested in working for one of the shops themselves, but just remember what Gill from Come As Your Are once said: “Counting sex toys is pretty much the same as counting beans and when the server goes down in the office, it doesn’t make it any less stressful just because there’s porn on it.” You must also consider what merging your agreeable hobby with tedious labour will result in. Speaking from experience, nothing trounces intrigue quite like having to spend an afternoon watching female focused masturbation videos or rushing into the shower with a volcanic vagina after sampling an exceptionally flavoured lubricant.
Behind the scenes does have its benefits, though, and I’ll take DB’s letter as an opportunity to tell you all why. I’m sent a slew of e-mails each month from PR people announcing the latest item to poke around in one’s secret places and of course most of these products and the appended self-serving statistics about pleasure and empowerment are just embarrassing money-making schemes. However, every once in a while, something comes along that lives up to all the sex-positive sloganeering.
About a month ago, I open up an email from a new company called Vergenza (www.inspiredbyvergenza.com/) and holy shit, are they not making the most beautiful dildos I have seen in all the years I have been writing a sex column. Granted, anything that looks like it was pulled from the set of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is enough to send me into raptures, but on top of it, these babies are made of heavy, aircraft quality spun aluminium, so they’re superb quality too. Fine, I think, let’s see this thing up close and personal and I order myself a review copy.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll say it again, this toy is fucking stunning. And how does it play? Wow. One end is grooved exquisitely down the shaft, while the other, really the hilt of the dildo but totally insertable as well, is smooth and has circular ridging on the underside of the cross-guard—amazing for ass play. Aluminium heats up quickly and in this particular incarnation is a flawless specimen of functional art deco that looks and feels amazing in the lavish art nouveau folds of the vulva. If you have a babe who enjoys a good stiff rogering and is keen for early 20th century industry-inspired ornaments, have you got the holiday gift for him or her.
Dear Sasha, My wife and I are interested in attending a swing club. We have a few questions we’d like answered before we proceed.
1. Are these clubs truly legal or are there grey areas that mean a bust could be imminent? We both have fairly conservative jobs and something like this would jeopardize them.
2. My wife, without exaggeration, ejaculates like a fountain. We were wondering if it would be polite to bring our own towels or does the club supply such things for patrons?
—S&Y
Dear S&Y,
On-premise clubs (meaning where sex is permitted) are legal in Canada as long as
certain protocol is observed. You can see the ruling, which was handed down in December of 2005, here: http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2005/2005scc80/2005scc80.html. Give
it a read, it’s pretty interesting for a legal document.
Any decent club will provide towels as well as showers and lockers, though the towels are often rather small, mostly something to put under your bum, stripper styles, when you’re chillin’. I would suggest bringing additional towels or perhaps investing in a Luv Linen (luvlinen.com), which you can get in leopard print if you’re looking for something a little more provocative.
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