your basement's on fire would make a delightful in store euphimsim

[porphyre]

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[asrei]

... Jesus, you are one very beautiful woman Jhayne.
Every time I see a photo of you - I quietly melt.

[porphyre]

That one's about a year old, last December maybe.

[porphyre]

You only haven't noticed because I'm too far away.

[abracas]

I dunno...theres something about sex stores that reduces lust to a pale imitation, a surreal cavelcade of imitations....

[porphyre]

I need out before I'm ruined, i figure.

[abracas]

yeh..I guess it could burn you out..I had a friend who did phone sex..same thing..aftre three months she couldn't bear to be touched by anyone...

[silver_notebook]

I feel such a prude when I question how anyone can find all that nasty, cheap plastic contrivance in any way sexy, and any humour of it must wear thin pretty quickly, especially when so much of it looks wincingly uncomfortable.

[porphyre]

The number of gaudy GLO-IN-THE-DARK items outnumbers the tasteful ones to the point where it hurts to think about it. The descriptions on the boxes went to being slightly unbelievable to more than a little baffling when I discovered that there are people who find these badly packaged, slightly leery products attractive.

[mad_and_crazy]

Two random incomplete notes: the interspersal of the ordinary and the kinky (the banal and the anal?) in the list of things written in black marker is a wonderful literary device, and it's a hell of a thing for a man to wake up in the morning, check his LJ friendslist, and to find your cleavage pointed at him. Put that stuff away before you cause injury!

[porphyre]

A) it's worse in person. really. that's perhaps the slightest list I could have given you.

B) bloody well too late, mate. too damned late.

[ennazu]

I suppose it would depend what kind of sex shop you work at. You have your run-of-the-mill sex shops, like the kind that are downtown, and you have ones like Venus Envy in Ottawa. Though I've never been (I keep meaning to), Womyn's Ware sounds very similar.

[mad_and_crazy]

See also this

[porphyre]

Womyn's Ware is friendly in narrow sort of way. They piss a lot of people off, but they're also very positive in their influence. I work at a sort of halfway shop. We're more known for having sexy costumes and fetish things than for toys. I mention the toys more only because they're getting to me more and more as time passes by rather than the other way around. i like selling corsets and latex stockings. I think those things are positive. in theory, I actually find selling toys a positive thing too, it's just that in practise, it's beginning to wear at me in sneaky psych ways.