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John Big Booty posted:Nope. They're still thing, at least here in L.A. And if you're so inclined, some of them have glory holes. Any chance you would make an Ask/Tell thread about your experiences? Sounds legitimately fascinating.
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Sinestro posted:drat it, the internet has been really hard on the Jizz Moppers Local 714. Not really. From the stories, our local store has a scab Jizz Mopper. He works for free. Although, I hear tell he's not so much a mopper than a licker.
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Oh, ours apparently have glory holes too. And cameras in them. Thus I know of at least one hetero encounter in said booths. (I had a friend that used to work at the local place.)
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Ultimate Mango posted:Any chance you would make an Ask/Tell thread about your experiences? Sounds legitimately fascinating.
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This thread has taken an odd turn.
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Dick and hole aren't obsolete!
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Powered Descent posted:This thread has taken an odd turn. Not so much. Porn stores ARE an obsolete tech.
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Ultimate Mango posted:Any chance you would make an Ask/Tell thread about your experiences? Sounds legitimately fascinating. try this: http://web.archive.org/web/20090227035012/http://www.improvresourcecenter.com/mb/tpcs.html
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Obselete: cIs people, monogamous relationships, families, hope.
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Samizdata posted:Not so much. Porn stores ARE an obsolete tech. A lot of them have been devoting more space to things like toys, clothes, and other accessories.
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Konstantin posted:A lot of them have been devoting more space to things like toys, clothes, and other accessories. So has Amazon, Adam and Eve, and others. And, when you get it from Amazon, it just comes in another Amazon box, so no explanations needed and no awkward being seen leaving said porn store. (It's not like the return policy matters.)
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Oh, it matters. If you bought a tape on the basis of a big yellow explosion on its cover that promised three hours of all-out anal action, and the anal action was only all-out for an hour at best, you're a loving chump if you don't return it for a full refund.
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Konstantin posted:A lot of them have been devoting more space to things like toys, clothes, and other accessories. I think they're still a hook up spot for older gay men like they mostly were in the 80's/90's. The nearest one to me though is a Hustler store. That place creeps me out because it's really nice and clean and well maintained with helpful staff. Porn stores are supposed to be dimly lit with handmade shelving and carpet that is the wrong color dammit!
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Now that I think of it, I miss the liquor store near where I used to live, the back half was a porn store. Go through the entrance, and turn left it's porn, turn right it's liquor, perfect cover.
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First of all that wasn't a "store" and second of all I started locking my doors at night
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Iron Crowned posted:Now that I think of it, I miss the liquor store near where I used to live, the back half was a porn store. Go through the entrance, and turn left it's porn, turn right it's liquor, perfect cover.
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Pastry of the Year posted:First of all that wasn't a "store" and second of all I started locking my doors at night
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Samizdata posted:Not so much. Porn stores ARE an obsolete tech. Honestly, it might not be. Rents are cheap, booths are just plywood with a lovely TV and POS interface. Content is probably stolen. I want to see the IP lawyer desperate enough to find out what's licensed and what isn't. Workers are cheap. Dildos from China are cheaper. The internet has definitely cut into business, but there's a certain desperation in the clientele that's not going anywhere for a few more years. I'm not saying you want to plan your retirement around it, but there could still be some life pulsating through the booths that smell like the worst Yankee Candle scent ever. There's a porn and sex toy shop facing directly onto a main parkway in a not terrible part of town that's managed to survive for better than a decade. Maybe there's no money in it and you have to just love your work and all the fentanyl money you're laundering.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Honestly, it might not be. Rents are cheap, booths are just plywood with a lovely TV and POS interface. Content is probably stolen. I want to see the IP lawyer desperate enough to find out what's licensed and what isn't. The industry is quietly but surely switching to all digital distribution, they just pretend they aren't. If you got even a cheap smartphone, the world is your jerkbooth.
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Ultimate Mango posted:Any chance you would make an Ask/Tell thread about your experiences? Sounds legitimately fascinating. Way back when there was a thread in maybe gibbis or a/t from some dude who was a porn clerk, complete with lots of gross stories of the back rooms. I'm sure it's in the goldmine somewhere.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Honestly, it might not be. Rents are cheap, booths are just plywood with a lovely TV and POS interface. Content is probably stolen. I want to see the IP lawyer desperate enough to find out what's licensed and what isn't.
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mobby_6kl posted:The porn shops must be going after the lucrative homeless guy demographic. TBF our current economy's doing a really good job of making a lot of homeless people.
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ryonguy posted:The industry is quietly but surely switching to all digital distribution, they just pretend they aren't. If you got even a cheap smartphone, the world is your jerkbooth. Yeah, but there are no surprise holes at home. There's a certain market there. Homeless hobos is one. People who don't have smartphones is another. Drunk or high people is a big one. I guess you have to be content with the biggest share you can grab of an ever shrinking market. Intuition says near military bases. My entrepreneurial spirit says there's just enough shame, loneliness, disposable cash, and lack of privacy to make good money operating jerkbooths for America's Heroes.
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Anywhere can be paradise as long as you have the will to put your private parts in strange places. As long the truckstops, highway interchanges, and freight via semi-truck exist, everything will be all right.
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Iron Crowned posted:I think they're still a hook up spot for older gay men like they mostly were in the 80's/90's.
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https://youtu.be/xmWg7CtN0Ac The NIMO tube - the Nixie’s prettier, 1.7kVDC cousin.  (Data sheet at 5:29) Three-Phase has a new favorite as of 23:58 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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Iron Crowned posted:The nearest one to me though is a Hustler store. That place creeps me out because it's really nice and clean and well maintained with helpful staff. Porn stores are supposed to be dimly lit with handmade shelving and carpet that is the wrong color dammit! The secret of the nice adult stores is that they're specifically seeking female clientele, and actively avoid anything that would cause creeps to hang around. The nice one near me has parking in the rear, in a huge open parking lot that's well lit and security cameras everywhere. Video selection tends towards female-friendly and camp gay, large lingerie section, huge selection of toys, and a relatively large all-female staff that's friendly and chatty with women and keeps a wary eye on men. And a female security officer at the door. It's so intensely female-friendly that it makes me feel like a creep for being there the two times I've gone (for Christmas presents).
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rndmnmbr posted:The secret of the nice adult stores is that they're specifically seeking female clientele, and actively avoid anything that would cause creeps to hang around. The nice one near me has parking in the rear, in a huge open parking lot that's well lit and security cameras everywhere. Video selection tends towards female-friendly and camp gay, large lingerie section, huge selection of toys, and a relatively large all-female staff that's friendly and chatty with women and keeps a wary eye on men. And a female security officer at the door. It's so intensely female-friendly that it makes me feel like a creep for being there the two times I've gone (for Christmas presents). Now that you mention it the few times I've been to a porn store here in NYC it's always been staffed by women.
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There's one up here that's pretty similar, but they're not wary of men, and have an interesting, if limited, selection of things for men that aren't just Fleshlights.
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So what's worse for unwanted attention, being a lady clerk at a sex toy shop or a lady clerk at a Gamestop?
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Krispy Wafer posted:So what's worse for unwanted attention, being a lady clerk at a sex toy shop or a lady clerk at a Gamestop? I'd say gamestop. At least sex toy shop guys won't post your personal information on the internet for being a dumb slut who won't sleep with them.
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Krispy Wafer posted:So what's worse for unwanted attention, being a lady clerk at a sex toy shop or a lady clerk at a Gamestop? Alex is taller than Sam. Sam is taller than Alex. Who is taller: Sam or Alex? Real answer: For attracting unwanted attention, I'd say probably about equal. For total volume of unwanted attention endured, a gal at a sex toy shop is going to know when and how to immediately snuff that poo poo out, whereas ~nerd girl~ selling videogames can't exactly tell a flirty dork to leave the store. edit: grammar are great GOTTA STAY FAI has a new favorite as of 15:36 on Oct 24, 2017 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:So what's worse for unwanted attention, being a lady clerk at a sex toy shop or a lady clerk at a Gamestop? The EB Games that opened in my town circa 2004 had an attractive lady clerk whose line was always twice as long as either of the two male clerks working the same shift. One time I went in and she sat there stonefaced and nodding politely as some pockmarked greasy-haired idiot was basically yelling "AND SO I TOLD HIM, HAVE YOU EVER *KNOWN* A 3D CASTLEVANIA TO BE GOOD? PFFFT" at her. Poor, poor thing. She didn't work there very long, she either quit or committed suicide pretty quick.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:The EB Games that opened in my town circa 2004 had an attractive lady clerk whose line was always twice as long as either of the two male clerks working the same shift. One time I went in and she sat there stonefaced and nodding politely as some pockmarked greasy-haired idiot was basically yelling "AND SO I TOLD HIM, HAVE YOU EVER *KNOWN* A 3D CASTLEVANIA TO BE GOOD? PFFFT" at her. Poor, poor thing. She didn't work there very long, she either quit or committed suicide pretty quick. The attractive lady clerk at our local was the wife of the manager - big mean looking tatted up guy with peircings everywhere. The weebs stood no chance.
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I went to the Stasi museum in Berlin, which is really interesting (and depressing) and has tons of detail about the way they spied on people, ran informants. The reason it's relevant to this thread is that pretty much every part of their information gathering and even their aims for having that much detailed information on their citizens are obsolete because the technology we surround ourselves with in 2017 means all that information and more is now easily accessible to phone companies, credit card companies, Facebook, Google, the government and security services.. and half the time people volunteer it themselves by sharing details of their lives and locations. It was unpleasantly ironic seeing a museum with exhibits making the point that the Stasi's obsessive information collection was bad, but living in a world where something beyond that is arguably a part of daily life for people living in the developed world.
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The "modern" sex toy shop is as rndmnmbr described - bright, open, welcoming, sex-positive, and staffed by "normal people", i.e. women and younger men, not some greasy old pervert. They have pretty sex toys in pastel colors (without some "horny" silicone blonde on the cover doing an O-face), 50-shades inspired bondage stuff, are LGBT-friendly, all that. Very little focus on porn DVDs, more about the toys and sexy clothing/equipment/strap-ons. In my country (Denmark), there's even a huge mainstream mall that has a sex toy shop of this kind. Granted, it's in a "corner" where no one randomly walks by, but still.
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Yeah there was one in the main shopping area of the ritzy Boston suburb I lived in for a while. It was called Good Vibrations, and was exactly the way Pilsner described. They had a bunch of different rubber brands that were 1000x better than trojans and poo poo.
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Pilsner posted:In my country (Denmark), there's even a huge mainstream mall that has a sex toy shop of this kind. Granted, it's in a "corner" where no one randomly walks by, but still. I'm in Canada, and in my province's largest mall. There are at least three (by my last count, one might've shut down) of these shops. Though all three of them are a part of the same province-wide chain. They're all in corners that don't recieve too much traffic. Adeline Weishaupt has a new favorite as of 04:29 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Pilsner posted:50-shades inspired Now that is gross/tacky 
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