
An unexpected rendez-vous had me checking in late, late, late to the W recently, utterly lubeless. A quick ring to their unique concierge service, “whatever, whenever” revealed that though they’d be happy to retrieve some for us, and at 1am, in fact, the room was already smartly equipped with an ‘Intimacy Kit.’ Go, W, for great service and stocking the honor bar with condoms, water-based lube, and all in very hip packaging. But the one little packet of Wet included? Such a tease. Sure, it’s likely an effort to be discreet and design-y. But good design for sex means you’ve got to account for ‘slippery’, too.
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- Coilhouse
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- Lena Chen / Sex and the Ivy
- Clayton Cubitt / The Constant Siege
- Debauchette
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- Fimoculous
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- Genderfork
- Information Aesthetics
- Jezebel
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- The Midwest Teen Sex Show
- Debbie Nathan
- Techspolitation / Annalee Newitz
- Open the Future
- Tracy Quan / Jet-setting callgirl
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- Rhizome
- Amber Rhea
- Bonnie Ruberg / Heroine Sheik
- sexuality.about.com
- Sex & Blogs
- Sex, Art, and Politics
- Sex in the Public Square
- The Sex Carnival
- Shameless
- Caty Simon / marginalutility
- $pread
- Synthetic Pubes
- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
- The Rumpus
- This Recording
- Tomorrow Museum
- Voices of American Sexuality
- We Make Money Not Art
- worship the glitch JoAnn Wypijewski / The Nation
2 Comments
Oh yeah, they have them at the Hudson too (http://flickr.com/photos/urschrei/77031503/)
I think a lot of the hotels in NY have those kits in the bar, but I haven’t seen them in Euro-land yet.
Thx, steph — the comments there are precious, too.
It’s been pointed out now that I ought to have been aware of this phenmo long ago — but keep sending in images.
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