Box Of Orgasms For Christmas?
The Christmas Shopping Season is upon us, and I’ve begun to realize it’s time and past time to make my online shopping orders. The Nymph having an automatic “it’s pink? squeeee!” reaction that impairs her saving throws against my evil plans, I surfed over to The Twisted Monk to see if the long-awaited pink bondage rope ever made it into his permanent inventory. (Answer: yes. My evil plan is complete, muah ha ha!)
However much fun we might have with the Monk’s custom ropes (and you’ve got to love a bondage rope merchant who includes a free pair of emergency shears with every order) I have to admit that a shortage of bondage ropes (or any other sex toy goodies, for that matter) is not the biggest problem at Casa Bacchus. No, the biggest problem is that sex toys come rattling out from under the couch when a guest sits down on it, or there’s a leather paddle that came in the review mail sitting on the coffee table when somebody’s aunt shows up unannounced. In a word, I can never have enough discrete toyboxes, toy bags, and the like. Plus, I love wooden boxes, and old-fashioned containers of all kinds. (Sometimes I’m tempted to start a distillery, just so I can have all those lovely oak barrels.) So, naturally enough, the Twisted Monk 2007 Holiday Gift Box caught my eye. It’s a pine box with a lid (semi-discreet, in that it’s branded with the Twisted Monk bondage logo) that comes with a rope kit and a DVD of Monk’s instructional bondage videos. Monk calls them “boxes of potential orgasms”, especially after his customers started writing in and ordering other merchandise (bondage books, naughty undies) to be included in the gift boxes before shipping.
What, you think that sounds like good service? That’s nothing, nothing I tell you! You should read about the customer who wanted the Twisted Monk Boyshorts, but only if Monk would “maybe step on the panties” with his “sexy boots”. Result: one sexy (because the customer is always right) boot print:
And to think, I was just looking for a pretty bit of rope!
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Thanks for the link love! I seem to recall that you girl was hankering for me to make rope in a sunshine yellow too?
You’re welcome, Monk. Actually the yellow rope idea is me more than her — pink is her thing, sunshine yellow is mine. ;-)
this may come across as a HUGE “didn’t have to be said” kind of thing, but.. those boxes? really awesome, because, while the cool monk logo is on one side, you can totally “vanillify” it by just.. um.. turning the lid over and sliding it back in.
one of my friends (roommate at the time) had decorated a similar box in modpodge magazine words and cut outs that was, at best, pretty darned obscene. we stored our vibes and lube and stuff in it. (wow. i had a really small collection way back then. now i need a big tupperware tub, and that’s just for the “most commonly used” toys!)
anyhow, it was always on the top of our little microwave/fridge combo, and when her mom came to visit, she always was fretting last minute, wondering where to stash it.
i literally saw the “oh.. duh” wash over her face when i just slid off the lid, turned it over, and put it back. voila. plain box! i suppose we’re just lucky she never asked to see inside. *laughs*
Saving throws? I knew you two were nerds after my own heart! ;D
Happy holidays!
Melly, actually that would not have occurred to me, thanks.
Brian, nerds? True, we are — or at least I am — but I actually stole that saving throw bit from John Scalzi’s “Whatever” blog, where he justifies his purchases of new gadgets by talking about his ridiculously low saving throw against “shiny!”.