Virtuallyabout LLC dba Crystal Delights doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue as a company name, but it’s a company with interesting roots because they have made the leap from the virtual world to the real world with a range of adult products.
The leap from the virtual world to the real world hasn’t just happened, as we can see from the about us section of their website :
Virtuallyabout LLC dba Crystal Delights began in 2008 as a successful line of digital toys in the virtual world of Second Life. Along with the “Crystal Delights” virtual adult toy product line, we launched virtual sales kiosks that allowed Second Life avatars the ability to purchase real-world pleasure products using Lindens, Second Life’s currency. When Second Life began to pursue different avenues, and restricting adult commerce, the idea grew to create a real-life “Crystal Delights” pleasure product.
The above also explains why I stumbled across news of the company, because I was searching for articles on Second Life at the time and found this article at PTLeader.com : Retail store offering adult glass pleasure products opens. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. The reason the company are in the news now is because their new store is opening on January 23rd.
Their blog explains more :
2015 was a challenging year, we had just moved from the East Coast to the West Coast and the shop that we thought was going to be fabulous, well… not so much! But we persevered and found what turned out to be a perfect space for our shop, that also gave us a retail space!
The new retail space has allowed us to display and sell a large portion of my vintage glass as well as have a Crystal Delights Showroom and Outlet space! We are very excited! Our Store Grand Opening will be on the 23rd of January, and we are even having an official ribbon cutting with our local Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce!!
Bear in mind that the blog is on a website promoting adult products, that means the merchandise is for adults!
This is an interesting development for a company who have utilised the virtual world of Second Life to promote their products in the past, but as they explain, they felt that changes to adult content rules in Second Life were restrictive. To be honest, I disagree a tad with their analysis there as the changes made with regards to adult content were designed to protect merchants selling adult wares by placing barriers in the way of anyone accessing the content. The changes weren’t handled as well as they could have been mind you and I was critical of the way the changes were handled.
However the more important angle is how a company decided that there may be a market beyond the virtual world for their products and as far as Virtuallyabout LLC dba Crystal Delights seem to be concerned, it was a move well worth making.