That gigantic dildo is not a toy, and other tips for the timid adventurer. Linda just returned from a daunting first trip to an adult novelty store with her boyfriend. She was shaken and slightly chilled but, luckily, with her sense of humor intact. She is not the sort of person to let her sex drive be destroyed by a retail nightmare, even if it was triple X-rated.
Every cover looks the same.
They're more like carny shows where you get a 20-Inch Dong to stare at instead of a bearded lady. That's what every sex shop in America was like until feminists started selling vibrators in the '70s. It's only been in the last decade that all these old farts realized that there was a new market to exploit if they could just get over their raincoater attitude. Years ago, there used to be a local blue law that said that every retailer had to stock a certain percentage of nonsexual items. Nowadays, however, Frenchy's advertises its wares openly in the town's weekly newspaper, invites couples to come in and shelves its sexual merchandise up front.