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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Discards from the search for VOs

A Woonsocket woman creates a new variation on the Tupperware party:

When the invitation came three years ago, Mary Beth Berrien was horrified.
Would she like to attend a sex-toy party?
"I was mortified," she admits.
But a friend was hosting and, frankly, it had been a long year stuck inside with the kids. A little arm-twisting later, there she was, a mother of three, buying "sensual aids."
Today, Berrien, 33, is among the top salespeople at Athena's Home Novelties, the East Coast's largest sex-toy company, headquartered in Woonsocket.
"If buying these toys was good," she says, "selling them is even better."
By now you may have heard something of this Tupperware-style "girls night in" -- the ladies from the office crowd into someone's living room, guzzling pinot grigio, while a saleswoman gives a PG-rated demonstration of X-rated items from $6 "love lickers" to $130 vibrators.
Guests snicker their way through the show and, a few blush-inducing purchases later, everyone heads home.
Erotic books, edible oils. You name it, Athena's is selling it in a family room near you -- $6 million dollars of it last year alone.

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Three stories from the EastBayRI.com group of newspapers:

Jason Turcotte reports a craze is hitting the East Bay... on the computer. It's not Friendster... ...but rather a competitor, MySpace.

Denise Kinney of the Warren Times-Gazette reports Warren is now home to a hot new records group: Wishing Tree.

And, Joan D. Warren tells about a way to meet people if you've just moved to Barrington.

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My Chyron guy was appropriately disappointed when I had the story about how you'll need a motorcycle license starting soon if you rent a moped on Block Island.

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... Scribbled by Bill T ... 10/19/2005 01:01:00 AM ... Email this entry ...
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