World Wide Web — Brittany Wilson, Sales and Marketing Director for The Dungeon Store was recently a guest on the Authentically Kinky Podcast, talking candidly about work in the pleasure products field, flogger fundamentals, the crossover into occult books, and how The Dungeon Store is celebrating 25 years in business as a supplier of toys for the curious to seasoned.
Presented by Dating Kinky, Authentically Kinky Podcast is hosted by Jon, A.K.A. HiThereCatsuit, a multi-time Emmy award winning broadcaster with over three decades in the business. Jon aids people in learning more about traditional and non-traditional relationships, and to tell the story on how people connect with their authentic selves.
The Dungeon Store is a woman-owned, intergenerational family business, priding themselves on 25 years in business, curating collections of fine BDSM gear with an eye towards community care and development. Much of the products sold by The Dungeon Store are hand crafted by fetish professionals across the United States.
HiThereCatsuit asked Wilson about toy bag essentials for those just starting.
“For novice kinksters, the essential that should go into your toybag is a negotiation and consent checklist, and a pen,” Wilson began. “After that, whatever you feel comfortable using. If you feel comfortable wielding a paddle, then your favorite paddle. Then you find the one that feels the most comfortable in your hand, and you find the one that is most fluid with your arm in the backswing. The correct things in your toybag are the ones that feel most comfortable, confident, and competent using.”
The subject of floggers came up, and Wilson noted the first flogger purchase is not the last. Instead, it’s how the top gauges where they’re going to move next as they buy toys.
“Everyone should always go for an American made flogger, with American leather, or Italian leather. This is not American exceptionalism, it is that the way we tan our leather and treat our leather, is very different than what you find in other countries. Be very mindful of where your leather comes from, and what animal it comes from… A nice, mid-tier, hundred dollars, plus or minus cow flogger is always a great place to start as you learn your swing, and it puts you in a great place to assess things that you’re going to want to remember… just take mental notes as you use it. Remember ‘Oh I think it would feel more comfortable with a longer handle. If these were a little bit longer…’ and just work from there.”
In addition, she suggests, “Don’t let your preference for color deny you of a preferred sensation. Not all toys come in the same color. I see a lot of people who will fall in love with something, especially floggers, and they’ll be like ‘does it come in this color?’ They’ll say no to the orgasmic, amazing, perfect sensation they were in love with. The first bite of chocolate on Halloween. They’ll deny themselves of this, because it’s the wrong color… When everything in your toybag is the exact same color and you’re in a dark dungeon. You’re not going to be able to pick the right thing on the first try as easily as if you know ‘the pink one is the singletail, the red things are the deer-tans, the green ones is the bull-moose…’ It’s tougher to differentiate when it’s the same color. ”
Coming into March, you can find The Dungeon Store team at the All Day Shop and Play at Baltimore Playhouse, Saturday, March 15. That same weekend, they’ll be at Secret Sinsations in Pittsburg, PA. March 27-30, Wilson and her team will be at Studio 58’s Naughty Gras hotel takeover in Gettysburg. For a sneak peek of what’s coming to these events, go to https://TheDungeonStore.com.
Watch the full interview from Authentically Kinky at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36KQvA4QQg
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