LOS ANGELES — Pleasure products from The Stockroom recently appeared on the Netflix reality TV show “How to Build a Sex Room.”
British interior designer Melanie Rose, star of the sexy home-renovation show, told real estate news site Curbed that she has been designing sex rooms — "which she’ll sometimes refer to as ‘pleasure’ or ‘sacred’ rooms to avoid a knee-jerk cringe," noted the article — for the past decade.
“People ask me, ‘Is it just one type of person that wants a sex room?’ And the answer is ‘no,’” Rose told Curbed.
The series “mixes it up, featuring queer couples, married couples with teenagers and toddlers, a recently engaged couple, a polycule and a recent divorcée in her 50s.”
Although the furniture — including St. Andrew’s crosses, tantric chairs and bondage beds — is custom-made for the show, Rose revealed to Curbed that “most of the toys on the show are from The Stockroom in Los Angeles.”
Rose also told the site that an additional source of inspiration for some of the home makeovers has been the work of another Southern California-based icon: Tom of Finland.
The Curbed feature stressed that “the takeaway of the series is aspirational nonetheless: In any relationship, fantasies — whether they involve décor, communication or bodily fluids — should be pleasurable to explore.”
“We don’t want to turn people off on the show, darling; we want to turn them on,” Rose concluded.
To read the interview with Melanie Rose, visit Curbed.com.
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