The Reject Bin: Girl in a Box
One of the questions that we are often asked here at Blowfish Control is: “So, what do you think about the toys / books / videos you didn’t like? What about those?” Sometimes, said question is phrased as, “Hey! You like everything that’s in your catalog! That’s suspicious!” Um, OK. For obvious reasons, we don’t add stuff we don’t like into the catalog, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have opinions about them. Thus, without further ado, allow us to introduce a new feature in the Blowfish Blog: “The Reject Bin.”
I wanted to like this one. For one thing, my favorite song by the Blake Babies is called “Girl in a Box,” so I picked this up with a certain predisposed fondness. (It turns out I would have been better off spending two hours listening to that song 50 times on repeat.)
I also thought the cover was promising — cute girl in a collar and wrist cuffs, in a box! I was expecting bondage, and while there’s a little bit of that here, it’s really rather misleading packaging, and I didn’t get what I expected.