Brittany Wilson, Sales and Marketing Director for The Dungeon Store recently appeared on Authentically Kinky Podcast to discuss what it’s like working in the pleasure products field, BDSM toy fundamentals, the crossover into occult books, and how The Dungeon Store is celebrating 25 years in business as a supplier of kinky toys for the curious to adventurous.
Presented by Dating Kinky, Authentically Kinky Podcast is hosted by Jon, A.K.A. HiThereCatsuit, a multi-time Emmy award winning broadcaster with 35 years in front of the camera and behind the scenes. Jon helps educate people on 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 over two decades of curating collections of fine BDSM and fetish toys with an eye towards community care and development. Many of the products offered by The Dungeon Store are hand crafted by fetish professionals across the United States. The company does both distribution and retail sales at American events coast to coast.
HiThereCatsuit asked Wilson about toy bag essentials for those just starting out.
“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 more gear.
“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 advises, “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.”
Pointing out the Hydra, Wilson adds.
“We have buffalo falls into what we call DTC, deer-tanned cow. So it’s cow hide, tanned as if it were a deer hide, to make it more soft and supple. All of these have angle cuts. If you catch with just these tips, it’s a very stingy flogger. If you catch with at this knot point, where it’s even thicker where it’s woven in, you’re gonna get some good thud. If you make an impact back here, let all of this cascade into the body, it’s like a deep tissue massage. You can get some good, deep thud sensation going. That’s what I’m a fan of. I want to use toys that have multiple sensations, multiple options and flexibility.”
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 The Dungeon Store.
Watch the full interview from Authentically Kinky at Youtube.
