How gay sex created The Butters and changed the world...

How gay sex created The Butters and changed the world...

June 4th is our 5th birthday. Yes we’re ♊ born during Queer Pride Month so it’s only appropriate…

Homosexual butt sex is the primary reason for the existence of The Butters.

The Butters spawned from collision of necessity, curiosity, and a lack of funds in the winter of 2015. I’d just got in a new relationship as a 20-something Libra and honestly lube was becoming a line item on the budget. I was getting it in on the regular. I needed affordable lube that wouldn’t dry out, get sticky, or irritate my guy’s bottom. I was just tryna stroke away unencumbered the options available didn’t want me to be great.

I was just tryna stroke away unencumbered the options available didn’t want me to be great.

Since I’ve got decades of home & professional cooking experience, the bravery of ignorance, and a lot of free time as an underemployed college educated millennial, I figured I’d see if I could make something myself.

I ended up making The Butters Lube Aloe X Shea. It was fucking fantastic, 100% vegan and made my skin hella soft. I wondered if it would be a good body moisturizer. It was an incredible moisturizer but a little too slippery. With a few tweaks, voila, The Butters Original Body Moisturizer was born. Both were instant hits with friends. So, I made more and more; I also made a lot of people really, really happy, to my surprise.

I love my destiny’s children, but the positive reception still shocked me. It also convinced to me keep working. Within a year The Butters Hygienics Co. became a thing. Five years, 20,000 jars of lube, and 22,000 units of everything else later, it’s clear I’m on to something.

Five years, 20,000 jars of lube, and 22,000 units of everything else later, it’s clear I’m on to something.

The Butters exists because you’re not crazy. Store products suck. With The Butters, it’s my goal to provide high quality, personal solutions that truly don’t for the queerest among us. Plus, I want to offer them at a price even my (formerly) broke ass can afford.

Despite what national brands tell you, it’s really their size and complexity that limit the quality and value of their products. On the other hand, The Butters is a brand based on simplicity, honesty, ingenuity, and horniness. Our products rock cause we’re our own discerning-yet-excluded customers first. We know what anal lovers, fisting fans, strap-wielding scissor sisters, and other queer, kinky, colored fuckers need. We are you.

 

Me/Jerome - Maker/Owner, Alexa - Office Manager, Kiara - Instagram & Gen Help, Breezy - Zanita’s Assistant, Zanita - Business Admin

This ethos and intuition bleeds into everything we make. Lube, PMS* Rescue, Bruise Soother, Happy N’ Nappy, Face Oil made to care for folks on hormones; like come on. What other brand is out here caring for your mind, body, and holes? No one. And we’re gonna keep at it for another 5-500 years.

On a personal note,

Thanks for being here for this queer and his band of merry Butters. As a 33-year-old mentally ill & learning-disabled fat black gay boy from metro Detroit, the statistics say I’m supposed to be in jail, dead or, most likely, dead inside. While I was never gonna let that happen, it took a lot of hard work and support from others to make it this far.

I’m literally living gay pride, black history, queer liberation day by day. With my highly gay staff and support of local queer youth orgs, I’m geeked to be helping lift other queers as well. We still have a long way to go but you can rest assured that at least 4 young queers are living better and safer because I was horny, and so are you. I think that’s pretty fuggin’ gay and by gay, I mean amazing, astounding, outstanding, and groundbreaking… ly gay.

In peace, moisture, & punk faggotry

Jerome

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