Many people put their hedonistic pursuits aside for the holidays, but when the season is over, all those generous souls have earned a selfish trip to the sex toy store. And just so they'll have some food to tide their imagination over till then, we got ahold of Paige White, developer and foremother of Madame S. Leather, a world-class sex toy store specializing in kinky sex and hardcore fucking. We asked Paige what items might be of interest to a whole range of kinky people -- something that's really hot this year.

"We've got the Praying Mantis restraint and we can't even keep it on the shelves," she told us. The Praying Mantis restrains only the hands and can be applied in a snap. It's more restrictive than hand cuffs and less trouble than rope bondage.

"If you picture yourself in the prayer position," Paige says, "it's the perfect position to give a hand job."

Well, so it is!

"Men love this," she adds. "It's so chauvinistic it's great. The way women look in this -- and they [women] can sit at a desk and they can still type -- you can still do everything. And you can wear it for hours without going numb. A lot of this type of restraint makes you go numb after a short time."

We also asked Paige what were the latest trends in sex toy buying.

"I saw you wrote about Eric Forbes [see archives]. We got him started. Electricity is doing really well this year; it's just like bondage was five years ago, it's really taking off. A lot of people are getting all this equipment -- and it's expensive too."

In the non-kinky department, Paige mentioned something called the Eroscillator, a larger model vibrator that looks kind of like an electric toothbrush, truth be told.

"It's got several heads to it (one for the prostate and one for the clit) -- it's outselling our Hitachi magic wands." This is saying a lot since the Magic Wand has become industry standard for jack and jill-off aficionados.

Since Ms. White is a bit of an expert in the art of vamping on vibes, we asked if she could give us a little primer on the difference between the Eroscillator and the Wand.

"With the magic wand you can go numb," she tells us, "and you can't do it for a long period of time. If you're not careful you can even build up scar tissue, especially the male, on his balls... With the wand, the plastic is pretty hard if you push down on it... I can come in 15 or 20 seconds with that thing. You can't push down hard enough on the Eroscillator to do that. And it [Eroscillator] has an edge to it -- I can go in between the lips and the clit. Believe it or not, Dr. Ruth even approves."

Paige White originally worked for Mr. S Leather, a San Francisco innovator of kinky paraphernalia (leather chaps, bondage gear, hand cuffs, whips, etc.). Since White first went to work for Mr. S, it has branched out into a 4-store network, including one in L.A. Mr. S also maintains a huge cyber-presence (www.mr-s-leather.com). The success of Mr. S showed White there was a hungry market for well-crafted, custom BDSM gear for women as well as men (Mr. S's specialty). And with the help of Mr. S's Richard Hunter, White opened Madame S, complete with its own workshop.

"We make everything right across the street," says White. "We have a full floor of latex; we make all our rubber straight jackets; we even make our own dildo, the 'Square Peg.' It comes in pretty pinks, purples, and blues. And we have our Vac-u-lock systems -- new heads for the fucking machines."

Paige's film company makes films of delicious, horny women getting down with the fucking machines (see Part 2 of our XXXmas Toys article). As the popularity of these fucking machines films progressed, it became obvious that people wanted to see different heads on the machines. And so the Vac-u-lock dildo system was born -- Madame S's specialized line of detachable heads for the fucking machines.

"We've even got the squirting cock -- put it on the fucking machine and it really squirts. It's got a come recipe included and soft movable balls. It's really cool when the fucking machine is fucking a woman in the mouth and then it squirts all over her face."

Of course you won't need to worry about a Vac-u-lock robo cock until you have your fucking machine -- so save your pennies.

And even if some of the toys in the Madam S toy line aren't on your list, it sounds like a visit to Paige White's toyland, either in the flesh or online (http://www.madame-s.com), might be a holiday adventure in itself.