French Sex Lessons
Issue date: 29/04/08
Springtime in Paris, blah blah blah. Despite their proclivity for swing clubs, kinky saunas, and other libertine pleasures, it turns out the citizens of the supposedly most romantic city on earth aren't all born Romeos and sex kittens. Love coaches, bondage, spanking, and sex toy lessons at the city's chicest sex shops: here's a list of useful addresses where Parisians go to keep up their reputations as the sluttiest people on the planet.
Pity the poor out-of-luck French dude who can't score a date despite his supposedly god-given talent for romance. But the impotent and love-starved are out there walking the Paris streets. And to rescue them, an underground society of entrepreneurial "seduction coaches" have started holding seminars for the sexually insecure, charging them beaucoup euros for methodical approaches to seducing women.
Local evangelist of the American Mystery Method Sébastien Night addresses such French-specific dating concerns as: Do you tutoyer your desired prey or stick with the more formal vous when making a come-on? Should you say Excusez-moi before approaching a girl, as you would a shopkeeper, or just go for it with a bold "Bonjour"? "We are the pilots of the airplane," says traveling love coach Night, who traverses France giving his Seduction by Night seminars to small groups of hopeful young men. "Don't wait for the girl." He offers everything from a €295 simple seminar that teaches men "the principals and techniques of seduction" to a go-for-broke €945 weekend Atelier Séduction Maestro seminar that promises a 100% money-back guarantee if you're not satisfied. "You don't have to be handsome, rich or famous to seduce," promises Night.
Other love coaches we've heard about but can't vouch for: The French self-improvement media darling Spike of Spike Seduction. Coaching Seduction from Brussels-based Anthony di Milano, who makes house calls for his French clients, the majority of his business. Nicolas Doltea's Ecole de Seduction, in which Doltea gets guys out in the streets, in bars and department stores,
to work on their practical technique at getting phone numbers. The serious-seeming team at Ecole Française de Seduction appears to mix business with pleasure in the seduction department. The similarly named L'Ecole de la Seductioncaters to both men and women on the make.
Finally, the slightly more genteel "Savoir-vivre au masculin et La French Galanterie" interactive workshops at La Belle Ecole promise subtle, modern, "non chi-chi" instruction in the old-world savoir-vivre, galantry, and good manners that help men get ahead in the office and in the bedroom. €75.
For girls looking for a little help with their spanking and bondage technique, Marais sex shop Dollhouse, on the rue du Roi de Sicile, has started offering workshops that include the Atelier de Bondage and Atelier Fessée (spanking). And at Passage du Désir, "un Lovestore" that sells sex toys on the Internet, and also has a boutique in the 4th, knowing what to do with your little fedora-wearing rubber duckie is not taken for granted. The kind folks at this chic modern sex shop, open every day of the year, have mounted an exhibition that runs until the end of June:Les Sextoys expliqués aux nuls (Sex Toys for Dummies) offers sex toy instruction to the estimated 80% of their clientele that have never touched un sex-toy in their lives. All this to help with the company's mission: to aid "the sustainable development of your relationship."
Source : http://www.gridskipper.com/