Getting To Know You

By my calculations, I’ve spent 200,000 hours trying to understand what makes you tick.  I’ve been a talk show host, a senior executive at Victoria’s Secret stores, a weekly web columnist, a design director, an entrepreneur, a marketer, product developer, senior consultant about women to American business and now an Internet writer/website publisher.

For over 25 years, I’ve spoken with you indirectly about many subjects — but one in particular: sex.

We got to know each other in the all American dream place of Victoria’s Secret, fine lingerie shops in Paris and Vassarette brand at Walmart I share your love for shopping and buying new products that will improve our lives, the ones that help you express the real woman in the mirror.

Pino “Morning Breeze”

American Marketplace

For better and also for worse, I’ve lived my whole life in the world of the American marketplace. Am I corrupt and slightly jaded? Probably, but I’m a realistic optimist with a business conscience and ability to connect with people.

Lingerie is not my only expertise. During the course of a globetrotting, adventurous career, I’ve touched you in other big companies like Avon, DuPont, Johnson & Johnson, Revlon and Lane Bryant.

From London to Bangkok; during a solo morning run through the back streets of Shezen, China; or flying to Zurich, Milan and Paris in a single day, I’ve spent countless hours thinking about desire, human sexuality, and what’s really going on in your bedroom.

More important, I’m always try to connect with your inner urges, dreams and desires, the woman you are when nobody’s looking.

It takes one to know one. Superficiality is not our expertise. Being a woman, I understand that for us, sexual desire is deeply rooted our minds.

I’ve chatted with you in Boston and Lubbock, Texas. You surprised me in San Diego, so much so that I broke the rules of focus group procedures and cornered you — a Lane Bryant Cacique customer —  in the ladies room.

Your comments about orgasms had me totally intrigued, and I’ve never been one to sit behind that mirrored wall for very long.

You’ve taught me many lessons about sexuality over the years, but one is clear in my mind.

I’ve learned that what you say about sex and what you do, aren’t always the same thing. This is understandable. Why would you sit in a focus group of total strangers and discuss your sexuality, especially knowing that I was sitting behind that mirrored wall, listening to you and taking notes?