http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/2044466,CST-NWS-stein12.articleKinky Llama delivers on the double February 12, 2010
BY NEIL STEINBERG Sun-Times Columnist
Opening shot . . .
Valentine's Day gifts can be a puzzlement to us long-married folk. Candy is out -- diets -- anything expensive roils the budget; anything cheap, well, is cheap. Though this year I blundered upon a novel romantic gift source that, frankly, would never cross my mind in a million years. But I'm getting ahead of the tale.
Male homosexuality was made a crime in Great Britain while lesbianism wasn't, the story goes, because Queen Victoria objected to the lesbian clauses in the law, announcing that ladies simply do not do that kind of thing.
Too good to be true, but the tale nicely serves as an image of sexual naivete, and came to mind the moment I heard of the Kinky Llama.
Not because the Kinky Llama is an online purveyor of sexual devices -- dildos, vibrators, gags, that kind of thing. I realize people buy that stuff.
But what threw me is that, for a mere $5 fee, Kinky Llama's owner, Anthony Mikrut, will bicycle over to your Chicago home, apartment or office, any time of the day or night, and deliver your new sex toy. Business is jumping -- Tuesday, he rode 35 miles in all that snow, making deliveries. Ninety-eight percent of his delivery customers are women.
"No!" I said, incredulous. "Do women really DO that?"