The most striking thing about our appearance at this year’s BlogHer11 conference was how people kept coming up to our table and thanking us for being there. In between the food samples, spa treatments, and household products, there was our table, proudly displaying items that, as one person put it, would have had us “removed from the building” just twenty years ago.

It was remarkable to walk around the conference center watching women proudly displaying their EdenFantasys tote bags. This wasn’t the unmarked brown paper bag you received from the local neighborhood ‘adult’ store, this was something entirely different. Here were women, from all walks of life, walking around with vibrators and lube in their bags, without shame.

And that’s the part that is beautiful: the lack of shame. Over the course of the two days we spent on the trade show floor, so many women (and men!) opened up to us about their sex lives. We can only hope the conversation continued to flow during break times at the conference, or back at the hotel bar. This free flow of conversation about sexuality is what EdenFantasys is about, it’s why we have reviews, it’s why we have a forum, to encourage that free dialogue, and to let everyone who visits us know that it’s okay to use toys, it’s okay to want to have better sex, whether alone, with your partner, or with any variation. All these things are okay. I saw that on the floor at BlogHer, and it was wonderful.

I can’t let the post end without thanking the multiple people who helped us put together this project, so here are my acknowledgements.

Thanks to the wonderful team here at EdenFantasys who helped me coordinate all the little details from shipping to designing our fun party invites and promo material; the manufacturers who sponsored swag and gave us pretty toys to display on the table: Wet, Jimmyjane, Fun Factory, California Exotics, Jopen, Doc Johnson, and Tantus.

Thanks to our dildo decorating party host, Kim T. from Live From The 205, and the lovely bloggers who volunteered their time to help us stuff bags and get ready for the party: Maria from A Savings Wow, Val from Seasonally Affected Mom, Toni from CheapoMcFrugalPants and Corrin from Oh Hey What’s Up!.

And finally, a big huge thanks to the BlogHer staff and community for welcoming us with open arms. We never could have predicted the incredible reception we received and we can’t wait till next year!