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The romance… the passion… the overnight shipping! Naughty shopping parties are hot hot hot By EUNNIE PARK, STAFF WRITER Only one rule applied at the home shopping party in Hawthorne: no boys. Everything else – finger foods, sangria, raucous laughter, lewd comments, dirty jokes, sex toys, sexy lingerie, and sexual aids – was fair game. Pink with excitement, the 15 women sat in a semicircle, feeling, tasting, and toying with their potential purchases. “Which one’s the Hanky Panky?” “I dropped my Coochy!” “God bless the...

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Secrets of the Sex-Toy Sisterhood BY MARION WINIK IT’S NOT YOUR MOTHER’S TUPPERWARE PARTY. SEX-TOY SHINDIGS ARE INVADING LIVING ROOMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND IT’S WOMEN WHO ARE DRIVING THE DEMAND–NOT TO MENTION RAKING IN THE PROFITS “And these,” explains Constance Ramsey-Dixon to the women gathered in a cozy Pennsylvania living room in the foothills of the Poconos, “are for him. There’s the Power Ring, the Pleasure Ring, and my personal favorite, the Double Ringer. I call it the rooster booster.” The elegant, six-foot-tall Fantasia Home Parties sales rep slips the...

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Feminism Comes of Age

25 Year Anniversary of Fantasia Home Parties Blazing the Path for Women’s Sexual Well-Being In 1984, a first class stamp was 20 cents, a movie ticket was $2.50 and the average woman was considered ‘frigid.’ Women had little validation when it came to matters of personal fulfillment with their sexual self and relationships. The ability to learn about and then shop for sexual enhancements products was limited to the male dominated world of adult bookstores. This lack of options motivated business owner Rina Valan to start Fantasia Home Parties, a home party service showcasing personal...

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Web MD

Spice Up Your Sex Life – No Matter What Your Size by Star Lawrence, WebMD Weight Loss Clinic Exclusive Don’t make romance wait for your ideal weight Have you put your sex life on hold while you wait for those last 10 (or even 100) pounds to disappear? While losing weight and getting healthier can definitely get those urges going again, depriving yourself of romance in the meantime is not a good idea. Statistics show that people who have sex regularly tend to have stronger immune systems, are less likely to be depressed, and live longer. Marriages in which the kitchen has not replaced the...

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US News and World Report

Party Profits By Caroline Hsu Home-party sales have moved way beyond Tupperware. And now some big guns want in on this global business When Kathy Yellets, then a sales executive at Hewlett-Packard, began hawking Pampered Chef kitchen gear using the kind of home parties that made Tupperware and Mary Kay cosmetics famous, her friends were horrified. “They said, `Kathy, you have a master’s degree. If you get a license plate that says Pampered Chef, we will disown you,’ ” recalls Yellets, of Darnestown, Md. Nine years later and it’s Yellets, 51, who is having the...

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The Intelligencer

SHHHH, SECRET SEX LIVES UNVEILED By Dorothy Cascerceri, The Intelligencer  First came Tupperware, then Pampered Chef. Now, the newest – oh, some might say hottest – in-home sales trend: women-only adult toy parties. And they improve their sex – as well as social – lives. It’s been called the Tupperware party of the new millennium. But don’t expect to find any products here that can store left-over lasagna. Instead, there are sex toys, lotions and potions for sale. The get-togethers are like a “No Boys Allowed” secret club that improve women’s sex – and social –...

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