I got a tour of stockroom.com friday afternoon, and convinced Chris Kalev, their purchasing manager, to demonstrate an electrified single-tail whip (violet wand powered) for me. He burned his arm (and broke a toy) for vlogging!
What’s awesome (besides the fact that with my new-ish camera I can edit video now) is that Stockroom flew me down to LA to do the Fetish Sex workshop (with my sex-ed pal Thomas Roche, who appears in the video), put me up in the cute Figueroa Hotel, and then invited us to their warehouse the next day for a tour. I’m honored to say that our tour guide was none other than Steve Diet Goedde, who is one of the sweetest, most humble artists I’ve ever met (we had lunch; I found out he works next to my friend Geoff Cordner!). While touring the Stockroom warehouse — surprise — the film crew from Kink.com‘s Behind Kink were there, and we got to laugh at having just seen each other a week ago for happy hour in SF. But what’s really, really great is that Kink had reps there to make a business partnership with Stockroom. Seriously. Two amazing companies, founded each by a kink-positive web-savvy man in his apartment; two huge high-quality empires with employees who tend to stick around for nearly a decade, and incredible working conditions, plus a sex-positive message fueling their fires. I mean, mon dieu — just look at the Stockroom employee kitchen. So cool. Plus, they totally have a Segway in their warehouse!
Watch the video of the violet wand whip demo after the jump; see more photos from my tour here. Image: happy easter, slave! It’s Stockroom’s upcoming bunny bondage hood. Run rabbit run, indeed.
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