In the Weekly Update, John (the manager of MAXX Adult Emporium), will try to educate and entertain as well as inform you of the changes we’ve made to the website and announcements related to our stores. This is where you can easily learn about new toys we’ve added, new articles, stories, and blogs that have been written, things happening in the brick & mortar stores, and anything else I think you’ll be interested in knowing about. I’ll strive to post a Weekly Update every Friday, so come back regularly to see what’s new!
"As slow as molasses in January." You're familiar with that expression, right? What I want to know is who in their right mind considers 35 MPH slow?!? That's the speed of the 10' high wave of molasses that spilled from a burst storage tank during the Great Molasses Flood of Boston on this day back in 1919. It killed 21 people and several horses, injured 150 more, destroyed several nearby buildings, and was even powerful enough to lift a train off it's tracks! Think about that the next time someone uses that expression. Personally, other than the death toll, I don't see this as having been much of a disaster because the molasses wasn't intended for a noble purpose like the making of rum (and thus putting this disaster in the good company of the London Beer Flood as I talked about last year) instead they were going to make a type of gunpowder with it! What a waste. At least they could have used it for gingerbread cookies or shoofly pie. Now that's how molasses should be used.
Having lived in the North End of Boston for a year (about a block and a half from the disaster site) I can confirm the reports that on hot, humid summer days it is still possible to get a whiff of molasses when walking around that area. At least, there's something different in the air at that spot that isn't the stink of fish, the tang of the ocean, or the scent of good Italian cooking... But head about 4 blocks over the hill, near Bova's 24 hour bakery, especially around 11 PM at night when the challah was coming out of the oven all hot and fresh... Ah man, the smells coming from that shop were impossible to ignore. Oh, and their Whoopie pies filled with sweet cream frosting were as big as a softball! Just passing by tugged the nose and pervaded the brain so you couldn't help but stop and buy something, usually several somethings - one to eat right now and a couple more for later.
Isn't it funny how smells have such power over us? Some scents can call up memories from childhood without even trying. There are furniture stores that bake cookies and pump the scent from the ovens throughout the store because it's been proven that it gets customers to stick around and spend more money. Other scents can supposedly call up lust and sexual attraction. Pheromones certainly have that effect in insects and many mammals, but it's questionable how much influence they have on humans. Although there is no scientific proof that pheromones have any effect on humans, a good perfume or cologne can actually combine with and enhance a person's natural scent and make being around them a much more pleasant experience... which can add to sexual attraction and thus lead to increasing lust in the parties involved.
Should you happen to experience increasing lust and are thinking of doing something about it... or because of it... you may be interested in our newest article aptly titled Condom Dimensions. Ever wonder just how much difference there is between Magnum and regular condoms? Or how much thinner a polyisoprene condom is than a latex one? Now you can find out all on one page.
Time is getting short for you to enter our Review Our Toys & Win! contest. Only three more weeks and it'll be over. We haven't received any new valid entries in several weeks now, but that doesn't mean we haven't gotten "reviews" (said with a grain of salt). To give you a peek behind the scenes at what some folks do to try to drive traffic to their sites, the following is an excerpt from one 'review' that was submitted: "celeb porn tape hot porn star fuck latina porn download amateur allure genevieve falcon heart porn roman star lesbian lick ass". The full 'review' is 20 times longer than that and includes links to 'porn sites' (ones that will stuff your computer with mal-ware with every click). We get 3-4 of those every day so I'm constantly checking to see if you've sent in any real reviews and being disappointed at finding nothing but spam. So please write reviews! You'll get a chance to win and make me very happy at the same time.
The chill of winter is a great time to do some baking. Dust off the cookbooks, pull out the flour, eggs, & molasses, and bake up a storm with your sweetheart. The heat of the oven will warm up the house, and if you do all your cooking wearing nothing but a kitchen apron you'll soon be heating up your partner at the same time. Put it in the oven and set the timer. Then you'll just have to find something to keep you both occupied until the timer goes off. Can you both finish before the 'ding'?