HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—XR Brands on Tuesday announced it is now offering in-store training in kink and BDSM products featuring the company’s full-time brand ambassadors Josh Ortiz and Elizabeth Porter-Smith. The new training opportunity will give retailers and their staff a chance to take their BDSM and kink product knowledge to the next level with hands-on training in the comfort of their own stores.
Ortiz joined XR Brands as a sales representative in 2018 and in his five years with the XR Brands team, he has led scores of in-person trainings while hosting his accessible #ScrewTaboo online sex education series, covering topics like puppy play, urethral sounding, smoking fetishism, temperature play and more. As a transmasc educator, Josh specializes in inclusive and affirming product trainings that are informed by his Shibari rigger skills and decade-long experience as a professional dom.
Porter-Smith joined XR Brands in early 2023 with six years of experience in the adult retail industry, and her interactive trainings include topics like consent, trust, and safe words. Porter-Smith also incorporates ways to play, product materials and uses, functionality, and sales tips in every store event she hosts. A lover of the Master Series collection, Elizabeth is an expert in pairing its award-winning BDSM items with products from lines like Bloomgasm, Bang, Zeus, Prisms, Strap U, and more.
“XR Brands is focused on supporting retailers not only with competitively priced, in-demand fetish and BDSM tools but also with unparalleled training to help them get the most from those products,” XR Brands president Rebecca Weinberg said. “We are thrilled to offer in-person training for our BDSM and kink products and send Josh and Elizabeth directly to our customers’ stores. Josh has provided a ton of virtual product trainings and sex ed sessions already, which have all been a huge hit, and everyone loved his live retail road tour in 2021. We’re so excited to have Elizabeth bring her functional and practical sales trainings to stores across the country!”
To schedule a training with Ortiz or Porter-Smith, email them directly. Ortiz can be reached at [email protected] and Porter-Smith can be reached at [email protected].
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