Booty Parlor: Bling-bling for your jiggy-jiggy

It's not often that I end up licking myself furiously within minutes of meeting someone. But that's what happened earlier this week, in LA, when Hillary and I had the pleasure - and I mean that sincerely - of visiting the Booty Parlor HQ. More on the licking thing later. (For the record, Hillary's tongue was working overtime, too.)

For those of you not familiar with Booty Parlor, it's a young brand which helps you to accessorize your sex life - and in a fun, pretty, non-skeevy way. If you've ever bought anything like lubricant, massage oil, or sex toys, you know how off-putting the whole process can be. Everything comes in either ultra-cheesy packaging (mmm, leopard print!), ultra-clinical packaging (KY, anyone?), or ultra-revolting packaging (oh, nice - a low-rent Jenna Jameson lying spread eagle!). Let's not even talk about the hard plastic clamshell that you have to saw open just to get to the good stuff.

All in all, not a process that leaves one feeling like a sex kitten.

That's where Booty Parlor comes in. Dana Braverman Myers, whose background is in celebrity endorsement (blame her for the Britney Spears deal with Pepsi) and her husband Charlie (a former film producer) wondered why it wasn't possible to buy sex accessories which were more like high-end cosmetics. After all, in this post-Sex and the City society of ours, women are taking more control in this area. Why should we be stuck with an aesthetically displeasing style of products and purchasing, especially with all the disposable income we've got? "Hey, it's good enough for guys!" doesn't really wash.

Check Dana out: When she popped out of the room to get something, I whispered to Hillary, "She is really well put-together." Not surprising, then, that Booty Parlor's products follow suit. For example, take the subject of the photo at the top of this post. It's a pink vibrator, yes, and the delicately wrapped and sealed bundles lying next to it are not sweets - they're batteries. Everything comes beautifully arranged in pink tissue paper, in a high quality box that makes you feel the anticipation of opening something that's going to make you feel really good. The pleasure starts with the unwrapping.

Over the next couple of days, I'll be reviewing some of Booty Parlor's products - which include lip gloss, bubble bath, massage oil, and various flavours of body shimmer. That's what had Hillary and I lapping away at our arms when we first sat down with Dana, by the way. I'd tell you to get your mind out of the gutter, but in the Booty Parlor world, the gutter is a fragrant, tasty, beautiful place to be.

Comments

[Mary]

LOVE this stuff - I often wonder why there aren't many classy sex shops. It's something that probably 90% of the women I know would be in to.

Love her, too. The dress is perfect for her body. It looks like she really knows what works for her.