Vermont- The Vermont Country Store catalog, which has offered home remedies and kitchen wares for 64 years, has created a backlash among some customers for offering sex aids aimed at older couples, the Associated Press reports.
The "Intimate Solutions" section selling six-speed vibrators, instructional sex videos, and "pleasure gels" is tucked between pages hawking Vermont-made suspenders and heavy-duty toenail clippers.
Lyman Orton, whose father started the 12-page mailer in 1945 that has turned into a $100 million a year business, says some of the irate letters "makes me a little ill, really."
Orton, 67, says no one asked him to include the new items, he just thought it might help older folks keep sexually active.
But about 600 customers complained, including one who wrote that she respects her "God-given human femininity" and finds the ads offensive. Another wrote simply: "Please rethink what you are doing."
Although the family may decide to do just that, Cabot Orton, 39, a member of the family-run business, says the bottom line is that the items are big sellers.
"It turns out they wanted these products, and they spoke with their wallets," he says.
