One of the most common questions Cheryl and I receive when we tell people about what Electric Sensations is all about is, "How in the world did you come up with that business idea?" We had known about the Sybian for a while before we came up with the idea of the business. I believe we had seen a video or two of the Sybian being used on the internet and we were very impressed with the power of the Sybian and the seeming intensity of the orgasm from the women. During my research on the Sybian my searching of course took me to the Abco Research Associates site where the Sybian is sold by the manufacturer, and that is where we also saw the prices. Almost $1400! At this time I was making about $10 per hour and supporting 4 people. There was no way in the world we could spend almost 4 weeks of wages on a "sex toy" which we did not know for sure if it would even work with Cheryl. And we let it go at that for several years, with the hopes that maybe someday we would find someone that owned one and she could perhaps try it out that way. If it was as good for her as it seemed to be for the other women who rode it, then we could see about buying one, that was our thoughts on the matter anyway.
This was until one day when we went to visit Special Moments in Paragould Arkansas. A very nice retail lingerie and "sex toy shop" here in NE Arkansas. We have been regular patrons of Special Moments ever since we first got together almost 15 years ago. We have nothing but great things to say about Special Moments and Cynthia the very nice
owner. Anyway, on one of our regular visits to Special moments we were
standing there discussing different things with Cynthia while checking out, when our discussion turns to the Sybian. Cynthia acknowledges that she knows about the Sybian and she had even thought about selling them, but felt the price was too much and she would not be able to move them fast enough. Well the conversation somewhat ends on that note, because Cheryl and I both understood what she meant about the price of them, but as we are walking out to the car Cheryl says to me something along the lines of, "she ought to rent them." And at that moment the spark was ignited, and the dry tinder in my head started smoldering. Within 24 hours it was a full blown forest fire in my head. I could not ignore it. I knew there had to be other people out there just like us who knew about the Sybian but were either afraid to pay that much money for one especially not knowing if it would work for sure. But I knew that we would, and other people would be willing to try it if it didn't cost so much.
Then I began to wonder if anyone else had ever come upon a similar idea, so I started googling Sybian rent and we found just a few sites at that time but there was one that was most interesting. Actually it was an independent review of a Sybian rental business in Portland, Oregon, and after reading the article I am about to show you, we knew how we would NOT run our business.
The full text of the original article is posted on the Portland Mercury newspaper's website, and I invite you to read it here. The summary of the story goes something like this; the Portland Mercury had heard of this local business which had a Sybian that they rented to women,
ON THEIR PREMISES. Portland Mercury turned to their ACE REPORTER Marjorie, who will go ANYWHERE and do ANYTHING to get the scoop. Well Marjorie was in for what could only be described as a frightening experience even though she did have a trusted male "chaperone" along with her. But even with her good friend with her, she described the setting as "totally groady circumstances." A single male proprietor named George with just one eye who apparently was exposed to too much Agent Orange in Viet Nam. A riding room which sounds more like a hospital room. Marjorie describes it like this:
"...we were shown into the "riding room"--a teeny boudoir containing the Sybian, an alarm clock on a small table, and literally nothing else. No velvet curtains, stereo,
oils--nothing to create an even remotely sexy atmosphere... unless you count the
scary calisthenics-like chart of different Sybian positions hanging on the wall."
Marjorie then goes on to describe her feelings as she gets ready to ride the Sybian, with her good friend Bobby by her side, and George just outside the door "banging away."
"So there we were, stuck in this tiny, sterile room, guarded by a stranger in an eye patch who was threatening to come in if he didn't hear us "making noise." I had just possibly signed away my uterus, and I was somehow supposed to ride this monstrosity to the point of getting off??!! It seemed an impossible task."
But as impossible as the task might have seemed, the Sybian proved itself ready for the task at hand. Enabling Marjorie to have what she herself described as, " ... a big, full orgasm."
Well after reading this article I was more than ever convinced that the business was feasible it would just have to be done in a way that the woman is going to feel as safe and comfortable as possible while riding the Sybian. The obvious place a woman is going to feel the greatest safety and comfort is in her very own bedroom, where she knows there will not be any prying eyes watching, no hidden cameras, and especially NO TICKING ALARM CLOCKS set to go off when her time is up. A place where she can take all night if that is what she needs to get to where she needs to be. Providing the Sybian for rent in the home was the obvious only choice. And one of the ways of avoiding many of the problems which George and the Sybian Salon created for themselves. I do not mean in any way to imply in anyway that George had anything other than honorable intentions in anything he did, all I am saying is that he did not provide an atmosphere which was in any way conducive to female orgasm. The only thing in that house which was conducive to orgasm was the Sybian. These thoughts were reinforced when I tried to visit the website posted at the bottom of the article sybiansalon.com. Well at that time, just shortly after the article was written, the website was already out of commission, and the domain name Sybiansalon.com currently has a For Sale sign posted on it's front page.
It was around this point in time that we made the decision to go for it with this business and we started working on possible names for the business. In my next post I will talk about how we came up with the name Electric Sensations, and go over some of the names we
looked at but threw away.
Also, in the next couple of days I hope to have Cheryl posting here on the blog. I'm positive she will come up with something really good.
Dan Lakey
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