Oil Pulling

[Cainad (dec.)]

"Sacred Sacrum Sex Toys"

"Each and every one of our exquisite, hand-crafted dildoes are infused with the healing power of Mother Gaia. Whether you're looking for a specific color to charge an individual chakra (our rose-quartz for the heart-chakra and obsidian for the root-chakra are most popular) or wish to ignite the fire within using our multi-colored Kundalini models, we have the sacred sex toys you are looking for.

You know it's important to take time for yourself. Take that extra step to recharge your vital essence while you recharge your libido."

"Sacred Anal Beads also available!"

I'LL TAKE A DOZEN


oh uh sorry, I got a little excited

[East Coast Hustle]

"Sacred Sacrum Sex Toys"

"Each and every one of our exquisite, hand-crafted dildoes are infused with the healing power of Mother Gaia. Whether you're looking for a specific color to charge an individual chakra (our rose-quartz for the heart-chakra and obsidian for the root-chakra are most popular) or wish to ignite the fire within using our multi-colored Kundalini models, we have the sacred sex toys you are looking for.

You know it's important to take time for yourself. Take that extra step to recharge your vital essence while you recharge your libido."

"Sacred Anal Beads also available!"

I'LL TAKE A DOZEN


oh uh sorry, I got a little excited

Wouldn't you rather just have one REALLY BIG one? It'd be alot cheaper.

[Telarus]

the "it's a way to detox yourself" is a recent add-on from the new age crystal-dildo crowd.

As an aside. Is anyone making and marketing "crystal dildos that align your chakras", and if not, I think there might be a market for them.

You know, I believe that we have a glassworker, someone who works in a sex toy shope, and someone who drives across country in an SUV big enough for many boxes of dildos at least twice a year all right here at PD.

I will ruminate.

I would totally design marketing material for such a product.

[LMNO]

Also, replace "dildo" with "lingam".

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I hate to burst y'all bubble, but I would bet money that every suggestion in this thread, however absurd, is already being marketed.

I have yet, in 19 years of glassworking, EVER heard even ONE SINGLE "you know what you should make?" novelty glass suggestion, even a joke one, that isn't already being made and marketed.

Chakra-aligning lampwork anal beads? Been done, I guarantee it.

[East Coast Hustle]

So do I, but I also guarantee that any product marketed towards the dumb and horny is going to have a fighting chance at gaining significant market-share.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So do I, but I also guarantee that any product marketed towards the dumb and horny is going to have a fighting chance at gaining significant market-share.

I could make more money AND retain more dignity stripping, though.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Even if I wanted to, which I don't, I have a number of friends who used to make sex toys, and the bottom fell out of that market ages ago due to cheap imports from China and India. There's just more money in art than novelties, because novelties can be mass-produced by barefoot orphan children in factories. Look at this shit; $15 for a matched set of glass Ben-Wa balls: http://www.xandria.com/index.php?getpage=store&getsec=catalog&page=item&xpage=category&itemid=844&theme=7&sess_id=c9925af41bc6eeccd7e0d6a975414496

I appreciate the humor behind the jokes, but in all seriousness, me actually making rainbow anal beads is a lot like you actually cooking at Jack in the Box; humiliating, and not gonna cover the bills.

[East Coast Hustle]

You know you're talking to the guy who's working part-time at Starky's, right?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

You know you're talking to the guy who's working part-time at Starky's, right?

OK. Maybe you should get a job at Dollar Tree.

I mean, it's practically the same thing, right? I mean, if it pays the bills...

I'm not trying to be bitchy, it's just that while joking around about making novelty wares is amusing, but I've been in the glassworking business for almost 20 years, both on the creative and supply end, and have a sense of what is and is not viable as a handmade artisan product. So it's funny, but no, it won't actually pay the bills. And, it would either require ruining my reputation as an artist, or starting a new business with a different name and marketing it from scratch during a very tight market.

Thanks for the cute suggestions though.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

(Trust me, about once a month somebody who is fundamentally clueless tries to pressure me into making their idea of "what would sell" and it's always some stupid novelty crap. It's lulzy at first but gets pretty annoying, not least because it's pretty patronizing.)

[Salty]

I know what you mean. Whenever I tell people I'm an LMT they're always quick to say: Oh that's awesome. You can work pretty much anywhere huh? Have you tried the spas? Oh, you should get with a chiropractor. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blahblahblah. That's good money isn't it?

Yeah. For ladies. In a different economy. In an unsaturated market. Or if I was willing/able to give out happy endings.

Everyone knows just how YOUR profession runs because they have a rudimentary understanding of People Pay For Shit You Do without any actual, you know, understanding.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I know what you mean. Whenever I tell people I'm an LMT they're always quick to say: Oh that's awesome. You can work pretty much anywhere huh? Have you tried the spas? Oh, you should get with a chiropractor. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blahblahblah. That's good money isn't it?

Yeah. For ladies. In a different economy. In an unsaturated market. Or if I was willing/able to give out happy endings.

Everyone knows just how YOUR profession runs because they have a rudimentary understanding of People Pay For Shit You Do without any actual, you know, understanding.

Yes, pretty much exactly that.

[East Coast Hustle]

You know you're talking to the guy who's working part-time at Starky's, right?

OK. Maybe you should get a job at Dollar Tree.

I mean, it's practically the same thing, right? I mean, if it pays the bills...

I'm not trying to be bitchy, it's just that while joking around about making novelty wares is amusing, but I've been in the glassworking business for almost 20 years, both on the creative and supply end, and have a sense of what is and is not viable as a handmade artisan product. So it's funny, but no, it won't actually pay the bills. And, it would either require ruining my reputation as an artist, or starting a new business with a different name and marketing it from scratch during a very tight market.

Thanks for the cute suggestions though.

Believe me, I was being far from serious about the whole idea.

I mean, having me drive them across country? They invented this neat thing called "shipping".

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

You know you're talking to the guy who's working part-time at Starky's, right?

OK. Maybe you should get a job at Dollar Tree.

I mean, it's practically the same thing, right? I mean, if it pays the bills...

I'm not trying to be bitchy, it's just that while joking around about making novelty wares is amusing, but I've been in the glassworking business for almost 20 years, both on the creative and supply end, and have a sense of what is and is not viable as a handmade artisan product. So it's funny, but no, it won't actually pay the bills. And, it would either require ruining my reputation as an artist, or starting a new business with a different name and marketing it from scratch during a very tight market.

Thanks for the cute suggestions though.

Believe me, I was being far from serious about the whole idea.

I mean, having me drive them across country? They invented this neat thing called "shipping".

Well, the dildo thing was rather clearly a joke.   I was just starting to get annoyed with the rather serious-sounding "you do whatever pays the bills" insistence that cropped up a few times, as if I'm somehow totally clueless about my line of work.