Surprisingly, sex-toy company has trouble advertising on billboards in the South

Trapped in our provincial New York life, we often miss important trends emerging elsewhere in the county. Like, for example, the rampant buying and selling of double-ended dildos relationship enhancers in Tennessee. The leader in the burgeoning category is a Mount Juliet, Tenn., company called Surprise Parties, which organizes Tupperware-style get-togethers for women. But rather than looking at plastic food containers, the women check out lingerie, lubricants and sex toys. The Nashville Scene explains: “The company wants to turn its senior management team, seven working mothers, into the Dr.