Fort Worth, Texas, has become the epicenter of a sexual revolution among American housewives. "Passion Parties" are cropping up like herpes outbreaks, and like the incurable virus I don't suspect they'll be going away any time soon.
Today's Fort Worth Star Telegram carries a story about Joanne Webb, who is under criminal indictment and will soon be facing trial for opening up her home for a $60,000 a year business of peddling potions, lotions, trinkets and doo-dads which promise to kick up the average couple's sex life Emeril style.
I don't suppose there is anything inherently wrong with chocolate frosting, fluffy cuffs, zappers, zingers or zippy-zerts; but I am concerned about groups of women getting together to snicker and jabber about their marital (or non-marital) intimacies. And surely there is nothing criminal about it. And I'm sure their husbands (boyfriends) appreciate the extra special attention being paid to make the bedroom spin with a little more than candles and Barry White, but a pornographic pyramid scheme is just unsettling to me.
What you do in your love chamber is your business (within biblical parameters, of course...even then, I'm not sure I want to hear about it)...and it should be fun. But silly women gathering in coital conclaves to discuss their sexual appetites among friends, buying and trading sex like it was a tupperware dish or a Mary Kay lip liner is just wrong. And apparantly these parties are being marketed especially for the most sexually repressed among us, evangelical housewives. At least Promise Keepers never marketed a line of love stuff for purchase in the accountability groups the movement spawned.
Article comments
1 - Chris Kent
lol....only in the Fort Worth Star Telegram!
I have attended one of these parties in Dallas that was geared towards couples. I went along with an ex-girlfriend as a joke, the woman hosting the event being a sort of Bohemian Book Store owner, complete with tattoos, multiple eyebrow/nose piercings, short dyed hair. It was interesting, as videos were shown promoting the products, which were set upon a coffee table. There was about six couples there. I will not say what we purchased, suffice to say the evening was a bit unusual. I would not go again, as sex toys, like porn, are fun to dabble in on occasion, but long-term exposure is damaging......
This kind of stuff makes great headlines, but it's just a trend.....
2 - Shark
re. FW-Star-T:
The Republican Party never had a better newletter.
I call it "The Fort Worth Star-Smellagram" 'cause it's GREAT for wrapping fish and pickin' up dog-doo!
Many locals call it the "Startle-gram" for its "If it bleeds, it leads" approach.
Nice to know we're making national news, though!
PS: My marital aid is a vacuum cleaner; I pick it up, turn it on, run it across the carpet---and the wife has a spontaneuous orgasm.
When are men gonna learn? Housework is Foreplay.
3 - Chris Kent
lol....only in Fort Worth!!
4 - Doc
Isn't that actually illegal to sell dildo's in Texas? Wasn't there a housewife being charged with that?
Texas: where they tried to make being gay a crime but had legalized Bestiality.
5 - Chris Kent
Now, now Doc. We're starting to join the mainstream. We are slowly developing all of our land, so there just ain't that many cows to assault anymore.....
Instead, we now have Dildo Tupperware parties.....Move on down here and join the fun!
Yee Haw!!
6 - Mark Saleski
this woman was arrested for selling "sexual devices" to undercover police?!!!
they have freakin' undercover police worrying about dildo's?
what the hell?!!!
7 - CW Fisher
Up here, "Biblical" is capitalized. And the actual book is loaded with sexy stuff. You could probably sell a few Bibles at one of those parties.
We have those parties too. My wife brought home a bunch of stuff that made me unnecessary.
I wouldn't get too upset about this stuff, Ben. Your man probably thinks its cute you smelling like a watermelon all the time now, maybe google eyes at him in the bass section.
They have oils now for the laying on of hands.
8 - Dan
"apparantly these parties are being marketed especially for the most sexually repressed among us, evangelical housewives."
I'm not so sure about this. Once inside the bounds of fidelity and God's approval, I'd bet these gal's libido's turn extra expressive.
9 - leeman
finger in den orsch stecken dann kann man gratis telefonieren.
10 - Bla
whats the hell is this the new germeny this is america if some lady's wount to buy dildo's and talk about how small jonny long horns dick is so be it they are free too. F*ck the Tx. Police there wasting your tax money omfg. where the hell is your freedom do you just give it up so easy. no wounder only Stears and quears come from Tx. ( HANDS UP DROP THE DILDO OR WE WILL SHOOT!! IM WARNING YOU LADY ONLY COPS ARE ALOWED TO USE DILDO"S HERE)
11 - alienboy
Benjamin C, the author of this post, and everybody who agrees with his point of view - that this is a porno pyramid scheme and that the women of Texas are "gathering in coital enclaves" - are really really tragic. I have rarely read such a load of sexist drivel and latent paranoia.