Swinging Convention and Passion

'Tis the season for weddings. There are 3 separate girlfriends of mine who became engaged over the Christmas holidays. None of them are getting married for the first time, it's a second for 2 of the girls and a third for the third. So now all of the bachelorette planning comes into play.

One bride-to-be has correctly, in my humble opinion, declined all bachelorette festivities citing that she was married once before so it would be cheating to have another. The other I haven't really heard from and the 3rd bride-to-be, well, I'm in charge of celebrating the 3rd end of her bachelorette status.

The agenda is quite simple since the age range is from 23 to 50 years old. A raunchy night at Tony's Bourbon St. ought to make us all celebrate and entertain the thought of settling down a bit. In order to get the girls in the mood we have a nice young lady from Passion Parties to provide a nice sampling of the latest sex toys, gadgets, lotions, potions, tricks and tools. Apparently there are games involved and "demos" which ought to be quite interesting and worth the time and a vodka tonic or 3.

The most interesting thing about speaking with this young lady to firm up the arrangements was that she makes a living from selling this stuff. It just makes me wonder how many untapped customers are out there and how much money is there to be made? In our conversation she mentioned that this past weekend she was heading to Myrtle to attend the Swingers Convention where she'll have a booth. Business is undoubtedly awesome in that venue.

But it got me thinking....what the hell is a Swingers Convention? OK I get the idea of couples coming together to swing....but do you need a special convention for that? When I think of conventions I think of seminars, panels, shows, exhibits, etc. What would be the seminar titles? "How to recruit reluctant couples" "How to throw a great swinging party" "The difference between swingers and orgies".....and who are the expert speakers? So many questions left unanswered.....And what would the other booths exhibit? clothing for the experienced swinger? vacation destinations perhaps? maybe a match.com type of arrangement for swingers properly entitled swingers.com? Enquiring minds would like to know.

Now I am very, very, very curious. Must remember to ask the fine young lady from Passion Parties after she demos the proper use of anal beads. Now that I think of it, maybe I'll ask her before that particular demo.

Created: March 5, 2007