The Glittery Dildo Stories

This is a pitch for an english Project. I want to do it, but we have to present it, and I dont want to talk about dildos in front of 12 18-year-old girls.

For my final project I will be writing a series of stories, with a unifying object tying them all together. The unifying object will be a brand of dildo manufactured in Mexico during the turn of the 90’s. Considered one of the finest dildos of its time, but shut down due to faulty management, the object is one of the most sought after and expensive of its kind. However, due to its glittery appearance, it has been known to leave its mark.
My biggest inspiration for the project is Raymond Carver. His short stories are amazing. I was really inspired by the way he paints portraits of characters with such vivid scars and honesty, as well as his ability to make gripping stories about dull, everyday subject matter. His characters never aspire to anything that much greater than the life they have. Another author I enjoy the short stories of is Roald Dahl, who once said that short stories are harder to write than novels because in a short story, one bad sentence can ruin the entire work. I plan to take this to heart. I’d also like to write one of the stories in the style of Roald Dahl’s adult horror stories, such as “Skin” or “Taste”. The idea of doing very diverse stories from different literary genres, with only an object truly connecting them, sounds appealing, though I’ll probably scrape it in the end if it does not work out.
One of my goals in the project is to show the mundane qualities of taboo subject matters. I’m sure by the title of my project; most people will assume I’ve written erotic stories. My stories will not be about people having sex, but about how a sex object affects their lives afterwards. I aim not to arouse, but to explore life after the arousal.
One of my stories will be about a man named Kyle, who realizes that while he was away on business his wife “kept busy”. It’s an emotionally crushing experience for him, a man who has been entirely faithful to his wife. He does not even masturbate. Only his wife, and Kyle when he pees and puts on underwear, touches Kyle’s genitalia. Another story will focus on Kyle’s wife, Mary, and the anxiety she experiences trying to clean the glitter off of her vagina before her husband returns.
At first, I chose to use a glittery dildo because it was the first funny thing that popped into my head, and I liked the juxtaposition of those two words. But as I thought about it more, I decided that it was the perfect symbol of the mark sex leaves on us. While the act itself might be pure and fine, it practically leaves a mark for society to know to scorn a person. It’s my updated version of the red letter A from the Scarlet Letter.