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Monday, May 11, 2009
News: Competitor sues Pure Romance
By Kimball Perry • kperry@enquirer.com • May 10, 2009
Pure Romance, based in Loveland, is being sued in federal court in California by a competitor in the sex toy party business, accused of telling prospective clients their competitor is going out of business.
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Brown Bag Party of Costa Mesa, Calif., filed suit last month in California federal court against Pure Romance, accusing it of libel, interference with business, false advertising and unfair competition in the suit that seeks at least $75,000 in damages.
Pure Romance and Brown Bag are national competitors for what Pure Romance calls "Naughty & Nice Gifts for Adults." Pure Romance did about $90 million in sales last year, up about 30 percent from two years before.
Both companies largely rely on individuals - usually women - hosting parties in their homes to show off sex toys, lingerie and other items they say educate customers on sexual issues. Party hosts make money from sales commissions. The products aren't sold in stores. Pure Romance notes it has tens of thousands of party-hosting representatives.
The suit alleges that at a March 14-15 Las Vegas convention for independent contractors, Pure Romance owners and representatives spread the word that Brown Bag was "going into bankruptcy," "going out of business" and was being bought by Pure Romance, none of which is true, Brown Bag's attorneys say.
Those statements were made, the suit alleges, in an attempt by Pure Romance to convince independent contractors to sell Pure Romance products and not those of their competitors. It alleges those making the comments "knew they were false" when they made them.
Calls and e-mails to Pure Romance weren't returned.
Pure Romance also is involved in a local lawsuit. It is suing women who used to host parties featuring Pure Romance products but switched to host parties featuring Brown Bag products. That suit initially was filed in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court but since has been transferred to federal court.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Carnival Cancels CAHPA Cruise
Carnival Cancels CAHPA Cruise
By: Wendy Rossner
Posted: 12/04/2008
WOONSOCKET, R.I. – There are a million ways to get rejected: apply to college, send a friend request to that cute co-worker, try to secure a mortgage. But the Certified Adult Home Party Association certainly never expected to get a rejection from a cruise line.
Earlier this year, CAHPA reserved space with Carnival Cruise Lines for its February board meeting. Planning days packed with sun, fun, and educational seminars, more than 20 cabins had already been booked by association members.
When Carnival stopped responding to CAHPA's calls, the group's leadership didn't know what to make of it—until the cruise line canceled the reservations and refunded their money.
In a letter sent to Bobbi Nolan, CAHPA's secretary, a cruise line representative wrote, "We are a family cruise line and all of our onboard activities are set in a family-friendly atmosphere... Based on information that was gathered from your booking, it is our understanding that your group is comprised of clients requesting ‘adult-themed' activities and functions. The premise of your group is to attend private functions revolving around their specific interests and affiliation... Carnival Cruise Lines does not tolerate public nudity, fighting, or general lewd, inappropriate, or reckless behavior, as set forth in Carnival's ticket contract."
The cancellation—and the accompanying letter—incensed CAHPA President Rina Valan. "This is out-and-out discrimination and it's slanderous," she says, disputing Carnival's insinuations of nudity and lewd conduct. "We're businesspeople. We help support hundreds of thousands of women in America."
The association had chosen Carnival based on members' past positive experiences with the line. Valan says the group had even awarded Carnival cruises as prizes, booking as many as 1,700 rooms in recent years, and that she personally has spent approximately $50,000 with the carrier.
According to Valan, Carnival knew from the beginning the nature of the group. "They had all the info up front," she says, explaining that the group was small enough that all business would take place in the conference rooms that CAHPA had been coordinating with Carnival to schedule. Nor was there to be any signage in public areas, she says, because all communication would occur internally. Furthermore, Carnival's concerns should have been assuaged by CAHPA's roster of successful meetings—past events have been held at Marriott and Sheraton venues.
So, if other passengers wouldn't even be aware of CAHPA's presence on the ship, and major hotel chains have hosted the group, what exactly was the problem? Though the rejection letter stated that group was not being singled out, Valan is baffled about Carnival's claim that CAHPA had requested "adult-themed services."
She says, "We represent 100,000 families, let alone customers. We all do a lot of business, and, especially in this economy to assume about a business group that they'll be lewd or there will be public nudity..."
In response, CAHPA directed a letter of complaint to Carnival's president, and a representative from the cruise line's group sales department phoned Valan this morning, more than a week after CAHPA sent its missive. "Someone finally called us," she says. "I couldn't believe what I was hearing. [The Carnival rep] was just a robot going on about how they have been burned by groups in the past. ‘We looked on the website and we just got concerned.'"
During the call, the Carnival rep asked specifically what CAHPA planned to do in its meetings and what items it would be bringing on board for the event. Valan explained that the group is similar to a chamber of commerce—an argument that garnered no leeway from the cruise company. "This is legislative, this is networking, these are CEOs of large corporations, and you want to know what we're going to be bringing or discussing?" Valan says she asked. The rep maintained that Carnival asks similar questions of all groups, whatever their nature, a claim Valan doesn't buy.
Finally, Valan ended the call, explaining that CAHPA had rebooked after Carnival had rescinded the reservations. "You've cancelled our group. You've put us in an uproar," she told them. "We booked with another cruise line."
It was Norwegian Cruise Line that "welcomed us with open arms."
So the cruise and CAHPA's board meeting will go ahead, but the group is considering further action against Carnival. Valan says that, after the "terse" phone call, her attorney will be contacting the cruise line. What kind of restitution are they seeking? "An apology would have been nice," she says. "They wouldn't acknowledge that at all. They have no clue.
"We're not out to get anybody—we're trying to help women. It's always been our mission to help women, whether to help her get freedom or enhance her personal relationships or finances, especially in these times," Valan says. "We don't need another roadblock like this."
Carnival did not respond to our request for comment.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
NEWS: Judges toss Pottsville business’ lawsuits (Spice it Up)
OUCH!!!!!! It is my understanding that a company, no matter what, can not prevent someone from making a living. It's a "right to work". Maybe it depends on your state. But I am almost positive that PA is one of them!!
Way to go Jen Hasseler!!
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Judges toss Pottsville business’ lawsuits
BY PETER E. BORTNER
STAFF WRITER
pbortner@republicanherald.com
04/12/2008
Schuylkill County judges dismissed on Tuesday lawsuits a Pottsville adult party business filed against two of its out-of-state distributors.
In separate but similarly worded opinions, Judges John E. Domalakes and Charles M. Miller rejected lawsuits filed by Spice It Up Parties Inc. against Stacey Carter, Illinois, and Jennifer Hasseler, Minnesota.
Spice It Up Parties did not draft its agreement with distributors such as Carter and Hasseler with sufficient specificity for it to be enforced as a contract against them, Domalakes and Miller each wrote.
Each judge rejected Spice It Up Parties’ claims for breach of contract, tortious interference with business relations and breach of duty of loyalty.
“Mutual consideration is (necessary) for a contract to exist,” and the agreement is not a contract because there is no evidence that either Carter or Hasseler received anything under the agreement, according to each opinion.
The corporation filed the lawsuits on Aug. 14, alleging the women violated their agreement by agreeing to become distributors for one of its competitors, For Your Pleasure Inc. It demanded as much as $50,000 in damages from each woman.
However, each judge ruled the agreement is not a contract because of the lack of consideration to the women. Since the agreement is not a contract between the corporation and the women, no lawsuits can be based on it, the judges ruled.
Furthermore, since the corporation did not allege the existence of any trade secrets or confidential relationship, neither woman can be held liable for the breach of a duty of loyalty, according to the opinions.
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Check it Out: Passion & Power: The Technology of an Orgasm
Review: 'Passion & Power' touts vibrators
Friday, February 22, 2008
Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm: Documentary. Directed by Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick. (Not rated. 74 minutes. At the Roxie in San Francisco and the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael. For complete movie listings and show times, and to buy tickets for select theaters, go to sfgate.com/movies.)
Among the humorous highlights of "Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm," a documentary about the history of the vibrator, is Betty Dodson - the "masturbation movement godmother" - proclaiming, "Independent orgasms will lead to independent thoughts. Once a woman has given herself her own best orgasm, she's on a roll."
Although such assessments may seem overblown to the current generation of sex-positive women, this doc is a reminder that female sexual satisfaction is a fairly recent concept and one that remains taboo in the more conservative and religious areas of the country.
The movie starts with the tragicomic legal saga of Joanne Webb, a churchgoing Texas housewife who, in 2004, was busted for selling vibrators to two undercover cops. In Texas, up until this year, it has been a felony to sell sexual devices. Webb, a sales associate for Passion Parties, was just trying to make a few extra bucks for her family. Instead, she was summoned to jail. Within a year, her husband had a nervous breakdown and they were forced to declare bankruptcy. All because of some vibrators.
Filmmakers Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick's point is that even a generation after the sexual revolution the female orgasm is seen as a mystery, a threat and, in the most extreme cases, something to subjugate.
The bulk of their film is devoted to the groundbreaking research of Rachel P. Maines, whose 1999 book "The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator and Women's Sexual Satisfaction" charts how vibrators were used by 19th century doctors to massage women to orgasm as a treatment for hysteria, that hodgepodge of illnesses that included "reading French novels while tightly corseted."
At first the therapeutic technique was manual, then electronic, and eventually it left the doctor's office altogether when companies like Sears, Roebuck Co. and General Electric Co. began mass-producing a variety of home massagers that retailed for $5 to $15. But once they showed up in 1920s porn, the instruments went underground until they were rediscovered by feminists like Dodson, who held women's sexuality workshops in the 1970s, promoting the power of vibrators.
"Passion & Power" proceeds in the usual documentary fashion with a parade of talking heads interspersed with archival photos. Maines, who is shot in a musty Victorian parlor surrounded by a variety of antique vibrators, has a hard time reining in her academic jargon - she describes the vibrator of the 1880s as a "deskilling, capital labor substitution innovation" - but her findings are extraordinary.
However, it is Dodson, the New York sexologist, who is the true star of the movie. She describes with great poignancy and bravado how she was "dumber than s-" about her own sexuality until she began talking with women and men about female pleasure. Then she became a sex activist, holding workshops and writing books. "Sometimes on a Sunday afternoon I'd masturbate for three, four hours," Dodson says. The vibrator would get so hot, "I learned to hold it with a potholder."
Omori and Slick work hard to keep the laughs coming in their film, although there are too many images of volcanoes erupting, flowers blooming in slow motion and vulva-like jellyfish fluttering through the water to get across that, yes, women do reach orgasm - especially with vibrators.
"Passion & Power" may lay it on too thick with its You Go, Girl! message, but in the end it does bring to life a remarkably amusing and strange secret history.
-- Advisory: Sexual content.
E-mail Tamara Straus at tstraus@sfchronicle.com.
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Momma found the trailer!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
NEWS: Miss. Sex Toy Ban May Fall Under Federal Court Decision
It think this sex toy ban thing will be completely resolved VERY SOON!
http://www.wapt.com/news/15353092/detail.html?rss=jac&psp=news
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
It's a fine day for sex toys in Texas!!!
Go on and promote sex toys with pride, Texan sex toy consultants!!! Alabama reps, you're next!
Federal Appeals Court Overturns Texas Sex Toys Ban
Ohhhh yeah!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
NEWS: Adult Bookstore Sex Toy Raid in MS
Incidences like this make me happy I live in the Northeast!! "Garbage bag loads of sex toys"!! OMG!! This is a disgrace. Then they BURN them?!? Is this 2008? Or 1908? In 2008 we know what burning jelly and silicone can do for the environment. All because some people like to get a little pleasure. I'm curious to know what their punishment will be. Don't tell me jailtime, because that would be really sad. I'll be on the lookout to find out. No courtdate was mentioned. Jackson police were chasing down a different kind of criminal today. Officers conducted a raid on a local adult bookstore, looking for illegal sex toys.They found enough evidence to make two arrests. Surprisingly, they re-arrested someone recently in custody for the same crime. Jackson police vice officers hauled out garbage bag loads of sex toys found during an investigation at the adult video and book store on mcdowell road. Sergeant William Gladney says, "It's just an undercover sting we periodically check the adult entertainment here in the city of Jackson make sure theyr'e complying with the adult entertainment ordinances, and this is a state statue." Multiple violations in this case, and it's not the first time. In july officers conducted a similar raid, confiscating sex toys. They've raided the place at least three times in the past two years. This time, it was a tip from the public that led them back. Gladney, "We got a complaint from a citizen that heard it on the radio we sent an undercover officer and made a purchase." Police arrested James Salters who holds the bookstore license, and charged him with two counts of selling sex toys. He was also wanted on an outstanding warrant for domestic violence. His cashier, Jason Paige was also charged with selling a sex toy, and was vocal in his opinion of the law. Paige says, "They don't leave here and go rape nobody, they don't leave here and go rob banks." officers say they weren't able to arrest James Salters during their last raid because he wasn't present. They say if he breaks the law again, they'll just have to come back. Officers say they usually just burn all the sex toys they confiscate during the raids.
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Jackson, MI 10/24/07
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By David Kenney
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Oklahoma Judge Still to Serve 4 Years for Using Penis Pump in Court.
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Monday, October 1, 2007
NEWS - Alabama continues to ban the sale of sex toys!
Load 'em up partners! And no, not with batteries. And no, not THOSE kinds of 'illegal' bullets. PUH-LEEZE with this! I seriously can't understand the logic here. UNFAIR!!
Court leaves Ala. sex toy ban intact
By PHILLIP RAWLS, Associated Press Writer
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge to Alabama's ban on the sale of sex toys, ending a nine-year legal battle and sending a warning to store owners to clean off their shelves.
An adult-store owner had asked the justices to throw out the law as an unconstitutional intrusion into the privacy of the bedroom. But the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, leaving intact a lower court ruling that upheld the law.
Sherri Williams, owner of Pleasures stores in Huntsville and Decatur, said she was disappointed, but plans to sue again on First Amendment free speech grounds.
"My motto has been they are going to have to pry this vibrator from my cold, dead hand. I refuse to give up," she said.
Alabama's anti-obscenity law, enacted in 1998, bans the distribution of "any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for anything of pecuniary value."
The law does not ban the possession of sex toys, and it doesn't regulate other items, including condoms or virility drugs. Residents may legally purchase sex toys out of state for use in Alabama, or they may buy sexual devices in Alabama that have a "bona fide medical" purpose.
Similar laws have been upheld in Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas, but struck down in Louisiana, Kansas and Colorado, said Mark Lopez, a former American Civil Liberties Union attorney in New York who worked on the Alabama case until recently.
The Alabama attorney general's office immediately notified county district attorneys, who are responsible for enforcement. The attorney general planned to ask a federal judge to lift an injunction preventing the law from being enforced.
Removing the injunction should take a couple of days, said Chris Bence, spokesman for Attorney General Troy King.
Store owners should be aware that the law takes effect once the injunction is lifted, Bence said.
Williams had asked the Supreme Court to review a decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found Alabama's law was not affected by a U.S. Supreme Court decision knocking down Texas' sodomy law.
The Texas sodomy law involved private conduct, while the Alabama law regulated commercial activity, the appeals court judges said. Public morality was an insufficient government interest in the Texas case but was sufficient in the Alabama case, they said.
Williams called the Supreme Court's decision not to review the law "further evidence of religion in politics."
"The U.S. Supreme Court said states can legislate morality," she said. "I don't feel it is fair to the people who do not agree with the morality of the Legislature."
She also predicted future court battles over which sexual devices are legal to sell as medical devices.
Lopez said adult stores may be cautious about pushing the issue of what constitutes a medical device because the law has strong penalties: Up to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine for a first offense. A second offense carries a prison sentence of one to 10 years.
