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Kiki de Montparnasse | Erotic Mind Salon

If I read one headline say that sex is out at Victoria’s Secret, as if conservativism or only romance is on the horizon, I’m going to release an orgasmic scream. VS is totally out of step with what IS sexy in today’s evolving sensual landscape.

A New Eroticism is replacing VS 365 Super Sexy hoochie-girl branding. This New Eroticism is led by women, and it frames sexuality in female-centric terms, that do appeal to men.

A high-end example of New Eroticism branding is Kiki De Montparnasse.

With stores in NYC Soho, LA and next The Wynn Shops in Las Vegas, this modern-day tribute to Man Ray’s famous Parisian intellectual celeb, leads the way in advancing a high-end, luxury, deeply, sensual, erotic lifestyle.

Kiki sells luxury lingerie, bondage kits, $800 cashmere blankets, titanium dildos, erotic art, and well  … some contraptions that even I haven’t figured out. Perhaps my sensually indulgent, highly creative mind just doesn’t want to know the whole story.

Under pressure to fulfill an erotic fantasy of my own, I bought a $75 reversible eyemask, saying  Sleep/Fuck. I warn you in advance, there are no cheap thrills at Kiki  De Montparnasse. None.

Which is exactly my point the past few weeks.

Walking into Kiki De Montparnasse is the inner sanctum female experience that Victoria’s Secret was, before it went Angels Las Vegas. Not that VS ever offered sex toys, except in a stupidly mindless test at Easton in Columbus, where sex toys sat close to the Pink entrance.

Surprise, mothers were upset.

Kiki doesn’t allow “kids” under 18 in the store, at least not yet. Instead, it’s a store for sophisticated grownups, not fratgirls driving down the national sexual highway on training wheels.

Visit Kiki de Montparnasse, and you’re looking at the evolution of sexuality in America.

Fear not the idea of taking a road test. You won’t be manhandled, as you are at Victoria’s Secret.  Your mind is free to dream, while your sexual curiosity peeks in every softly lit corner of the store. The store is indeed an erotic salon for the mind and senses. Anne

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