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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 --- 13 days ago http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gridskipper/full/~3/280312190/french-sex-lessons
Springtime in Paris, blah blah blah. Despite their proclivity for swing clubs , kinky saunas , and other libertine pleasures, it turns out the citizens of the supposedly most romantic city on earth aren't all born Romeos and sex kittens. Love coaches, bondage, spanking, and sex toy lessons at the city's chicest sex shops : here's a list of useful addresses where Parisians go to keep up their reputations as the sluttiest people on the planet. Pity the poor out-of-luck French dude who can't score a date despite his supposedly god-given talent for romance. But the impotent and love-starved are out there walking the Paris streets. And to rescue them, an underground society of entrepreneurial "seduction coaches" have started holding seminars for the sexually insecure, charging them beaucoup euros for methodical approaches to seducing women.
Local evangelist of the American Mystery Method Sébastien Night addresses such French-specific dating concerns as: Do you tutoyer your desired prey or stick with the more formal vous when making a come-on? Should you say Excusez-moi before approaching a girl, as you would a shopkeeper, or just go for it with a bold "Bonjour"? "We are the pilots of the airplane," says traveling love coach Night, who traverses France giving his Seduction by Night seminars to small groups of hopeful young men. "Don't wait for the girl." He offers everything from a €295 simple seminar that teaches me ... |
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