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You’re in the middle of your pleasure party presentation, showing and describing products and playing games when all of a sudden…you get the inevitable question from a guest: a sex education question. Do you attempt to answer the question? If so, how deep do you go in your answer? Are you prepared with information to accurately answer the question?
As pleasure party plan owners, one thing that occurs during our parties is the sharing of sexual information. It occurs naturally in the course of describing and explaining the products we sell. How we decide to present the information can determine how successfully the information is accepted by the audience. Edutainment, a term coined that is part education and part entertainment, is the act of combining and disseminating accurate information (education) in an entertaining and interesting manner that will educate and entertain your guests. Edutainment is the most effective way of providing sex ed during a pleasure party – guests learn without ever feeling as though they’ve been taught. Edutainment is a form of accelerated learning. Accelerated learning techniques employ methods for learning that are considered to be fun or relaxing to the learner. These methods allow learning, or a transfer of information, to feel natural and unassuming. Although providing edutainment to our customers is not our primary reason for having parties, it is a natural fit – one that can be beneficial to you and your company in many ways.
How To Make Sex Edutainment Fun
Making sex edutainment fun is easier than you may think. There are two factors that will determine how effective your sex edutainment will be: Level of Information and Props. Here are a few tips about both that may help:
Level of Information
- Keep the information you share basic and brief– stay away from clinical terminology and explanations. The idea is to share information that may be of interest and is quick to share. An example of the information may be locating the g-spot, the number of nerve endings on the clitoris, how the clitoris swells when aroused, the size of a flaccid penis, etc.
- Make information light and relatable. Don’t bog yourself or your guests down in long explanations about bodily functions.
- Share information that is related to the type of toy you’re presenting at the time. If showing and describing a g-spotter vibe, provide edutainment about the g-spot or female ejaculation.
- Every product description isn’t required to include sex edutainment, you can have specific, pre-determined topics that you discuss during your presentation, the edutainment does not need to be extensive.
- If you’re not comfortable with your level of sexual knowledge, educate yourself by utilizing one of the countless resources for accurate information about sexual health and well-being. A quick web search can help you find most any type of sexual information you need. Be sure that the source is credible and the information is accurate – be able to state your sources. A short list of sites that may help in broadening your knowledge are:
- WebMD
- beducated.com
- Women’s Health Magazine
- Everydayhealth.com
- Volonte (Lelo’s blog)
- Kinkly.com
- You can also seek one of the certification programs that are available – there are many good and reputable programs available.
- Don’t make up sexual facts. If you don’t know something it’s okay, you don’t know it.
Props
Props or visual aids not only make your form of sex edutainment more fun and interesting, they provide guests with a visual so they can get a better idea of how to find what you’re discussing. The following is a list of possible props:
- A vagina puppet (helps to illustrate labia minora & majora, clitoris, vaginal entrance, urethra)
- An anatomically correct rubber or realistic feeling penis (dildo)
- An anatomically accurate rubber or realistic feeling vagina (masturbator)
- Any number of the products being demonstrated can also be used as props (kegel exercisers, c-rings, etc.)
Benefits of Edutainment
Providing edutainment during your parties is beneficial in many ways:
- Increases your credibility as a pleasure party plan owner and the credibility of your business. When you’re able to provide accurate sexual health and wellness information to your customers, you build your reputation. You appear more knowledgeable and credible. Being able to speak intelligently about basic sexual health and wellness topics also legitimizes your business, you’re serious about what you do.
- Edutainment can help to increase revenues. Providing instruction about a creative way to put on a c-ring or how female ejaculation occurs, builds trust in your judgement. Guests will be eager to look to you for product purchasing recommendations.
- Use of edutainment can help to build long-term clientele. Customers will return to you over and over, seeking advice and product recommendations. Once you’ve established this type of relationship with a customer, she will always come back to you to make her purchases – regardless of your pricing. As most of us know, after conducting so many home parties, you start to understand that many women aren’t very savvy about their sexuality. The edutainment we share provides information about how the female body works…but in a way that isn’t ‘teachy’ or condescending.
- Edutainment allows you to provide a ‘value-added’ service to your customers – one they can’t always get in a brick and mortar store and definitely not at an internet outlet.
- Developing your edutainment routine will broaden your knowledge of sexual health and wellness information.
Edutainment is a way to build a bridge, a connection with your customers while providing them with accurate sexual health and wellness information. Edutainment can only enhance your existing pleasure party presentation, polishing it and making you and your company look more professional.