This is a million dollar business. The best kept secret in Pakistan.
While most couples enjoy an intimate evening with sexy negligee, how would you react if your husband or lover came home with a spanking skirt? Leather front with an open buckled back to reveal your tender backside? Would you jump right into it for some sudden titillating passion? Or be appalled?
On the flip side, might you purchase one, with a thin riding crop perhaps and surprise him?!
What would you do if your husband or lover came home with a sexy negligee for you? Most probably you would enjoy it. What about a spanking skirt — those skirts with leather fronts and an open buckled back to reveal your tender backside? Would you jump right into it for some sudden titillating passion? Or would you be appalled?
In an era in which we have seen marriages crumble in the wake of scandalous trysts with women from escort services, perhaps a man who brings home a spanking skirt is merely trying to set up a dialogue – one that says, “We need more excitement in our marriage.”
Take it as a cue and not an insult. The industry is growing.
It seems that there is an increasing demand for erotica which appears to be fueled by the Internet. Right now in Pakistan, according to a New York Times report this week, “Lacy Threads and Leather Straps Bind a Business,” a little company in Karachi has a $1 million industry catering to the fetish and bondage products for the United States and Europe.
They sell primarily online and through eBay. According to the founders, their market research tells them that “70 percent of their customers were middle-to upper-class Americans and a majority of them Democrats. The Netherlands and Germany account for the bulk of their European sales.” New York Times
Keep in mind that costumes and toys sometimes give a couple a few moments of fun – that may turn around the problems faced in 20 million sexless marriages.
When I questioned the notion that this could be demeaning to women, one of my colleagues pointed out that when a woman dons a spanking skirt, the pleasurable pain is something she most likely enjoys, if it stays on a fun and sensual level.
According to the Guardian.co.uk, exotic and erotic lingerie sales are on the rise, despite the recession. Guardian.co.uk
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Copyright 2009 Rita Watson