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I visited the sex shop with my girlfriend Kayci down on Route 9 near the bridge to Northampton. Initial impression: the place is really sketchy. Also it smells horrible. I’m not sure why a sex shop would smell horrible. It’s not like any of the stuff they sell smells bad. My current theories are:
a. People have had sex in the shop.
b. People return used items that smell bad.
c. The smell has accumulated from years of near-zero ventilation.

I guess more to the point, who’s going to complain? You feel weird enough being in there in the first place. Nobody wants to spend extra time in there arguing with the owner about the smell.

I found some amusing items in the shop and decided to document them.

In case you can’t read that at the top, it says “GLOW IN THE DARK”. I’m not sure why they included that functionality. To quote Mitch Hedberg, “It’s not like the product has any integrity to begin with. It might as well glow in the dark too.”

A penis-shaped water pistol. I can’t think of any other place (other than teh intarnet) where you’d sell this other than a sex shop, so I guess it’s in the right place? But still, I don’t know who their target audience is with this one. Also in the shop but not photographed: penis-shaped pencil tops. For the back-to-school season I guess.

One positive thing I noticed about everything was the pricing. Everything had prices like $15.24, so that when you add in tax it comes out to an even $16.00. I understand that people in sex shops probably want to just pay and get the hell out, and not having to deal with making change helps with this. However, I don’t see why this is the first shop that I’ve seen do this. I’m not generally in the mood to get 87 cents back from the dude at the 7-11 either.

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