After her husband’s cabinet-making business became a victim of the Great Recession last year, Lizette Sosa reordered her priorities.
Instead of looking for a new job, she focused her time and energy on passion, romance and sex. But it wasn’t an effort to rescue her marriage. Instead, she was trying to save their livelihood. More than a year later, it seems to be working.
Sosa sells adult novelty items as a consultant for Slumber Parties Inc., a multilevel marketing company that enables women to become distributors for a fraction of what it usually costs to start a business.
And because of that, according to those who work in the sex toy/home party industry, some women are trying entrepreneurship as a solution to a stagnant job market.
“We’ve seen a huge increase in consultants over the last couple of years,” says Slumber Parties spokeswoman Claudia DuFrene. “If I had to put it into numbers, I would say over the last couple of years, we’ve had a 5 percent increase. And the economy is a big factor.”
Logo from Slumber Parties
barry on December 19th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
I need help quick. Trying to open an adult store and the city is trying to institute a moratorium while my permit is pending (3 months). Is there any legal precedent out there I can throw at them. I can’t believe making laws to prevent a business from opening while the permit is in process is legal or constitutional. Please respond to barryartz@gmail.com