Chicago — Brittany Wilson, Sales and Marketing Director for The Dungeon Store recently appeared on Authentically Kinky Podcast. Wilson was on the show to talk about working in a kinky toy business, flogger fundamentals, the crossover into occult books, and how The Dungeon Store is celebrating 25 years in business as a supplier of BDSM toys from mild to wild.
Presented by Dating Kinky, Authentically Kinky Podcast is hosted by Jon, A.K.A. HiThereCatsuit, an Emmy award winning broadcaster. 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. Many of the products offered by The Dungeon Store are hand crafted by fetish professionals across the United States.
HiThereCatsuit asked about toy bag essentials.
“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 toys.
Wilson advised, “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.”
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 https://TheDungeonStore.com.
Watch the full interview from Authentically Kinky at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36KQvA4QQg.