This week we discussed buying implements from a vanilla shop.
Barrel: Interesting that I look for spanking implements in many places, including antique stores, garage sales, hardware stores, adult stores and the like. And I look for more than just the implement such as gloves my wife might wear to protect against a lash rebound, mirror that I might be asked to use to watch the thrashing, pillows, fetish attire, restraints, etc. I admit to being kind of embarrassed. But I met a sales lady in an adult store several years ago who, over a lengthy conversation about what I was looking for, helped me accept who I am, I like impact play and TTWD. So, if a clerk smiles at me or nods, I acknowledge it with a wink and look to get home as soon as I can to put my purchase to work. All good!
Dan: A couple of
times. When we first started domestic discipline spanking, my wife sent
me to the mall on a mission to find a good quality, heavy wooden
hairbrush. I was convinced that every employee in the stores I went
into knew why I was there. (And, I never did find a truly heavy brush.)
The
only other time it's happened is when I bought a bath brush at The Body
Shop. I'm convinced that no one ever uses their brushes for anything
BUT spanking, so my embarrassment at that purchase seems to me to be
perfectly legitimate.
Jack: I showed my wife/mommy this question, she said how would they know, she said they want to make a sale, I don't think spankings cross their mind. I reminded her of a trip to the store, oh that one she said. I had just been spanked, it was a store where mostly older women work. Ask if she was looking for anything in particular, she said a long-handle bath brush. I looked away. At the check-out the lady smiled and said the long handle makes the difference; my wife/mommy said she hopes it does. Just when we were about to leave the lady said, my husband can tell you it does. She said the way he is walking he must have gotten a good spanking prior to coming. My wife/mommy smiled and said he did; husbands can be very naughty little boys.
Wendel: The Misses
is always a little embarrassed when we buy wooden hair and bath brushes.
She will toss in a towel just to cover it up while we continue
shopping.
At the Paula Dean restaurant and shop we got some odd
looks from the clerk that checked us out as well as shoppers. Then again
we did buy one of each design of spatula. BTW Paul Dean must be a
spanko. There were over a dozen different designed spatulas.
Roz: I have definitely felt embarrassed and uncomfortable on the couple of occasions we have gone to a adult store. Not so much in vanilla stores looking at wooden spoons etc but I can't help wondering what the staff think.
Norse Cavalier: The first
implement I bought was a clothes brush. The girl behind the counter gave
me a smirk, as if she suspected I didn't buy it for its intended
purpose, but neither of us said anything, and I didn't feel particularly
embarrassed. Let her think what she will, it doesn't bother me.
If
this was a story or a movie, there would have been some back and forth,
and it would probably have ended up with me asking her whether she'd
been a naughty girl, and whether she'd like to volunteer and let me test
my purchase on her, but those things rarely happen in real life.
I've never had any other reactions when buying pervertables, and I'm never particularly embarrassed about it.
Prefectdt: I cannot say that I feel particularly under suspicion when shopping for pervertables. Although I wonder if the staff in these shops wonder why I am buying all those spoons, but never any bowls. There is one Omnishop, that I often visit, where they have an equestrian section that includes some nice crops, batters and long, flexible, training whips in it, but I do not have the nerve to buy anything from that section. Anyone could take one look at me and conclude “Not the horsey type”, so yes, the embarrassment factor does have a swing there.
Graham: I've bought several items at vanilla stores including a carpet beater at an antique shop, one of those paddles with a saying on it at a curio shop and a riding crop at an equestrian store. The latter was sold to me by a very attractive lady. The store was empty, and I almost asked her to give me a sample. I had the sense she might have agreed but I didn't have the nerve at the time to follow through. Missed opportunity!
Hermione: I think it depends on where you are shopping. If it's a big box store and I have several other items as well, I can't imagine anyone would suspect. If it's a small shop and a one item purchase, then maybe I might feel uncomfortable. But on the whole, most cashiers aren't paying any attention to what you're buying. They want to sell this stuff and you want to buy it, so it's all good.
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