There are about 7 or 8 sex shops and a couple of strip bars. The streets are packed on the weekends with regular
tourists though. It is extremely non-threatening. |
I can"t say that my suburb is the most conservative suburb, but it"s not the least. There"s at least one that I know
of.
And, well, there are more sex shops in the CBD than anywhere else I"ve noticed. You definitely don"t need to go far
before you hit one. |
We have a sex shop in the middle of our downtown, surrounded by shops and restaurants, just hanging out. There are also
two "lovers" stores on the north end of town. We don"t have strip clubs though. |
There is a sex shop called Condom Sense in the Old Port region of Portland. Also, there is a strip club on Riverside
Street in Portland, and a new topless donut shop up in Northern Maine. Personally? I"ve never been to any of them. |
As far as I know, there are no strip clubs or sex shops here. How boring. |
There is a condom sense store in a newer shopping center. Its in between a salon and a Chinese buffet. |
Ours is actually right in the middle of everything, but it manages to escape notice. Then again, in a town 30 miles
away, the porn shop was shut down after an obscenity trial. They were selling the same kind of porn as everyone else,
but they still got fingered. Sad. |
Sex shops tend to accumulate around the two lanes-per-side blacktop highway, also home to many defunct fast food
restaurants, go-go bars, liquor stores and abandoned strip malls or shopping centers, most with off-brand storefront
baptist churches. |
Fantasyland seems to do pretty brisk business, but then again, it is the only game in town. They"re open 10-10 Monday
through Saturday, but they close at 5 on Sundays.I assume so they can make to church in the evening. It is in the Bible
Belt. |
There are a couple of new-fangled shops on the various outskirts of town, for for the more...literary...porno, you just
go across the street and down the block from the Main Branch of the library to Studio One. |
Milwaukee"s sex shops are all strung out south of town along I-94. They start right north of the Illinois border. |
We have a sex shop [lost] in the middle of nowhere in the mess that is the industrial district and there"s a strip club
that recently got renamed in a strip mall to the north. Once was with a friend dropping off a neighbor girl to interview
at the sex shop... all us guys opted to wait in the car for her interview (tho we were 18). She returned saying another
old acquaintance works there. |
There are three sex shops on my way back from work. One is in an area of the city that could be classified as
"Uptown", another is tucked into a fairly discrete place under an overpass, but next to a shortcut. The last one is
interesting: It sits in the property of a failed pawn shop, next to an awesome vietnamese food place, and... a
children"s haircut salon. |
"Sexually oriented businesses" used to be clumped together like that here, but the city passed an ordinance
prohibiting them from being within a mile of each other, so now they"re pretty spread out. However, they"re also
prohibited from being within a mile of a school, which means they tend to be found hidden in industrial districts and
office parks. |
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there are 2 Lover"s Lane stores on rt 30 (Merrillville and Schererville)...there"s also another one at Broadway and rt
30 in Merrillville. They"re all in high-traffic, highly visible areas. I know of some that are on the outskirts on rt
20 in the Portage/Gary area...right off of 80-94, just north of all the truck stops. |
Nobody around here gets all bent out of shape over the strip clubs, etc. Those places work hard to keep themselves out
of the news. |
There"s a porn shop in North Hollywood just a little bit west of us. It"s called ODYSSEY VIDEO and it"s near a
Toyota Dealership and some car stereo places. There"s also a pirate store over there. I think there are some sexy
dancing places in NoHo but Odyssey Video is the only one I see on my way home from pilates. |
Pretty classy... |
Anchored by the Pink Poodle strip club, the district is known as the Burbank district, named after famed botanist Luther
Burbank not the iconic former porno palace the Burbank Theater. |
How could you forget L"Amour Shoppe!!?!? |
5th street is downtown, its the Oregon District, aka bars, restauraunts, cobblestone streets, the works. But there are
still fun little sex shops and pretty much anything you could want. The Dixie Strip is north of Dayton, right before
Vandalia. There are literally 5-10 in a row. Oh, and a sex shop too. |
They add happy fun sexy time for the Midwestern holy rollers. |
About 7 miles southwest of Benbrook is a little village of Wheatland, which is made up entirely of Tattoo parlors, sex
shops, gas stations, and junk stores. There"s even a shooting range. All the sex shops have blacked out windows and
yellow lights, the tell-tale sign of high quality service. One even has a giant armor knight standing guard out front. |
We have one strip club (the other side) and one "novelty shop" (conquest video) They are both located on opposite
sides of downtown fitchburg. |
Erotic City provides the best in service by not being located in any actual police jurisdiction. No cops+ strip club=
scary place to drive by! |
This is where you can buy all your tawdry lingerie and naughty toy needs. They actually have some lovely tasteful stuff
too. There"s also the "back room" but my friends and I have never been in THERE where supposedly a swing is set up
for "display purposes." Along with more hard core adult toys and films. We"ve seen a few guys run back there and in
about 10 mins. run back out. "nuff said |
We have the most strip clubs per capita of any city in the U.S.
Or so I"ve been told. Not sure about sex shops but Spartacus on Burnside is my favorite. It"s My Pleasure is great
too. |
Open 24 hours, with big rig parking. I guess so the lot-lizards don"t have to fight over territory at the truck stop. |
All the expected adult products and features. No surprises and no disappointments. |
They seem to accumulate in the "bad parts of town". Like, parts of town where no one is shocked that a stabbing
happened. Usually along with payday loan outlets, cheque cashers, pawn shops, rent to own stores, donut shops, etc. |
There is a pretty equal scattering of sex shops in just about every part of town, good and bad. They run the gamut just
like any other type of store. |
"K Road" is our local area for adult shops and strip bars, Its really close to the City center!! |
We have our sex stores scattered liberally around the city, though it seems like most of them are on Central Avenue.
That"s probably mainly because Central"s the main drag of our city. We have a TON of porn stores, though, and we"ve
got at least 3 women-owned shops that try to be less creepy than the larger porn stores, with a friendlier, boutique
environment. Sex-positive southwest ftw. |
When the city started cleaning up Times Square they started putting all sorts of limitations on where sex shops could
be; they had to be a certain number of feet from the next one, from a school, or from residential homes.
Many of the shops were grandfathered in, that"s why sometimes you"ll find them in the weirdest locations in the city. |
As far as I"ve noticed, the "adult" businesses seem to be scattered randomly about town. The only small grouping I
know of is out near the airport, where there is a "bookstore" (probably a "magazine-and-video store", really) and a
"massage parlor" in close proximity (for the needs of lonely traveling businessmen, no doubt). |
Despite the image of Sweden as a very sexy open country, the sex shops are far and few between. I live in the sixth
largest city and there"s only one. Unless you count the government run drug stores (Apotek) who consider marital aids a
part of medication and well-being. Socialized healthcare and socialized love-making!
Guess we are very sexy and open about it after all. |
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Nestled right between some historical something-or-other building and a classy seafood/pasta place with the cities"
best burgers upstairs . . . that"s right, Downtown Book and Video! |
I have to agree with my fellow NJ native above. Route 130 seem to have become a haven for sex shops, adult book stores
and cheesy strip clubs. Oh...and small, privately owned car dealerships! |
Military town...need I say more? |
Can"t miss the funky colors! |
Doesn"t everyone buy this stuff online now at places like Vibrators.com? I mean, who goes into these stores anymore.
Err, not that I ever did... |
There are some sex shops along I-44 west on the way out of town, but the vast majority of strip clubs, porn shops and
porn theaters are all across the river in Illinois. |
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The best part about the sex shops / dance clubs near my town is the name...Toy Box (shudder) and Tropical Lei. The
Tropical Lei has a marquee out front where they always put up bad sexual puns...like churches do, but you know, sexy.
Every time I go by the cheeseball Tropical Lei, I want to go inside. But my friends who, on an ironic lark, went in
said...it was just old, depressing, sad. |
there"s Ambiance: the Store for Lovers in the same plaza as Elmo"s Bras and Girdles (I kid you not) and a bridal store
on 224 in Boardman Township, and Foster"s Theater on Glenwood Ave. in Youngstown. Foster"s was a legitimate theatre
in the 50"s, then it was a movie theatre, now it only shows 2-bit pornos, and has a shop attached. |
8 mile, yes the same one as the movie, hosts a plethera of video, toy and book stores and many many gentleman"s
clubs... |
I can"t remember what the name of the shop is, but it"s right next door to a Chinese restaurant called Peking Boy.
That always brings the giggles when I drive by. |
Davis won"t allow sex shops. Puritans!! How else do you expect college students to learn about sex and pornography??? |
Oh yes indeed. In Paris, the Pigalle district (home of the Moulin Rouge and the Museum of Erotica) is throbbing with sex
shops.
There are also some more upmarket and women-friendly places dotted around the city, and a few more in the Jewish/gay
district (I"m not sure which demographic they"re aiming at). |
In this area, there are 2 stand alone sex shops and at least 5 strip clubs, you will also find female entrepreneurs
strolling down the street looking for work. A few miles north you will find a gay resort that has clubs and shops as
well. Protect yourselves! |
San Diego seems to have an "F Street" bookstore in every area of the county. The Point Loma area does appear to be a
concentration of "All nude" this and that. This is also the Navy and Marine areas at night/weekends. Strip clubs and
"bookstores" seem to be ALLOVER though. Hillcrest is a gay area that has alot of "bookstores", so keep your soap
well secured in this area ;-P |
How ridiculous - people only have sex out here to stay warm! No enhancements allowed! |
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The only sex shop around (Sex shop, not Strip Club) is "The Lion"s Den" Between Abilene and... I think Clay Center.
Its out in the middle of nowhere, and there are billboards on either side of it that say "Jesus heals, Pornography
destroys".
Well, it sure did destroy my napkin collection when I was a kid, but other than that, I turned out all right.
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Thirty years ago what sex shop activity there was was mostly down Yonge St, but now they"re scattered all over town.
From Lovecraft in the upscale Yorkville, to just down the street and around the corner from my less tony digs. Downtown,
along Queen West, also has several that are more along the lines of "empowering, sex-positive boutiques" rather than
the skeezier porn-focussed shops. |
You can"t get a beer from your own fridge without tripping over half a dozen stripclub/adult novelty outlet stores.
Some towns have the "the seedy part of town", Portland IS the seedy part of town. Also, I picked florida because it
looks like a willy. |
This is a pretty small town, but they still managed to squeeze one in. |
We"ve a couple of toy & porn stores intermingled with a cornucopia of restaurants, ethnic markets, and little of
everything else along the main shopping street. |
There are 5 scattered around Allentown that I can think of.
Two blocks away from my house is a run down purple strip club (it used to be a Ponderosa restaurant) and a couple
blocks further down the street is a sex shop surrounded by fencing so no one can see your car in the parking lot.The
area is a mix of residential,industrial and commercial, everything from Mack Trucks to supermarkets |
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We have the highest per-capita amount of adult businesses in the US the last I heard. There are a handful downtown
(stores, peepshows, dancing venues) as well as more just over the bridge in NE. Oh yeah, how about in SE as well.
Oops, forgot that we"ve got a smattering south of downtown in the burb"s. Gotta love PDX... Or does it love you?
Hmmm... |
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Usually has truckers, despite this fact the place is well lit and more than often has women working there (not sexy
ones). All around not a bad place at all :) |
My friend"s mom ran a Guatemalan clothing store that had a back room that was a head shop/porn store known to the
locals as Andrea"s Bong and Dong. They were the first and Last sex shop in town. |
The closest thing we have to a sex shop is a place called Shooters and Lace. It"s a gun store and lingerie shop all in
one convenient location. That"s progress. |
The street is lined with them. |
There are sex shops EVERYWHERE in the CBD, even along the main street to the city from the south.
Almost every shop in Kings Cross, to the east of the city (barring McDonalds and the train station) is a sex shop. |
There are sex shops EVERYWHERE in the CBD, even along the main street to the city from the south.
Almost every shop in Kings Cross, to the east of the city (barring McDonalds and the train station) is a sex shop. |
Walking distance from a trailer park across the street and the Chicago Police K9 training facility. Backs up against the
NW corner of O"Hare airport. Love to look at the makes of cars in the lot like Mercedes, BMWs, Jags, Cadillacs. Gives
an idea of the types that frequent the place! Oh, and there"s parking in the rear! :) |
There are 3 sex shops one being a "juicebar" strip club with sex shop attached in a 2 mile stretch of the Mount Read
Blvd here in Rochester. These are aLl in non seedy locations some steps from schools, McDonald"s, City offices. They
must be crucial to society! 8) Also more amazing is that seemingly every woman we know has hosted a sex toy party in
their home. |
The one "adult bookstore" in Richmond, KY is between the interstate and the less-used side of town. The owner is
fighting in court right now to keep it open, and church groups are backing the complaints of immorality and danger to
children that having a nondescript, no-ad sex shop in town. |
Conveniently next to a liquor store and a check cashing business. Across the street is a NASCAR style drive-thru
Mcdonalds.
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Damn! |
Houston: more strip clubs and churches per capita than any other US city! Houston"s sexually oriented businesses are
too numerous to count and can be found just about everywhere. I-45 runs straight through the center of Houston for well
over 30 miles (maybe 40), and I-45 is absolutely filled with adult establishments. |
We apparently have more strip clubs per capita than Los Angeles, and the sex shops to go along with them. Most of the
porn can be found in the Warehouse District, also home to almost all the city"s nightclubs and newest paper
mill-turned-high-priced condo buildings. |
tiny little shop but friendly |
Right smack in the middle of a residential neighborhood and around the corner from a popular park. |
This sex shop, Video Xpress, is located on Route 33, which is the main street throughout this town of 100Kish people,
with many shops around it. It is also located behind an elementary school. They tried to close it because of its
proximity to the school, but it was open long before the school was built and won their right to remain open. |
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We have a Fascinations Superstore on the main drag next to Arizona State University. It is surrounded by restaurants,
bars, banks, a Starbucks, and lots of retail stores. It is the classiest location for an Adult store that I have ever
seen. |
Since Columbia apparently never considered any sort of zoning laws, we have strip clubs and sex shops randomly placed
all over the city. Sure, most of them are in the seedier parts, but there"s no rhyme or reason to where they are. |
This one is sleazy |
This one is really nice, and classy. |
This one is also a head shop. and is super sleazy! |
I know of a couple here and there, but there"s like five on South Street downtown, with all the other cool urban
shopping. Makes going for Morroccan food with the youth pastor reealll interesting |
Being on the Mississippi we keep all of the off color places on the other side of the river. Perverts can"t cross
running water after all! |
Because of our great state"s bashfulness, our outlets for the unmentionables right next to the other vices in town,
which collectively cover one half of a city block. |
There is a reason for the cluster if anyone cares http://www.loveshackonline.com citys pass stupid zoning and distance
laws based on a 1970"s case known as the Renton Challenge |
There is a concentration of strip clubs and shops downtown, called The Block (actually 2 blocks, and right next to the
police station). There are also a few strip clubs scattered through the city, but many more toy/book shops. |
Are you kidding? I live in Amsterdam. |
Our sex shop is located on cumberland avenue. It is between the strip joint Filey"s and a Toys R us. Nest to the
unemployment office. |
Hey Rob, did you notice that the comments are broken on the squirrel roadside memorial? |
The good people of Augusta have resisted the opening of Sex Shops in our city. |
The first one is actually only a couple blocks from me on the main road. The shop is one with the peep booths, and an
attached video and accessories shop. It is painted a bright purple! Also a "sexy" clothing shop just 2 doors down.
Stripper gear.
The other area is the far edge of Portage where several shops are located as well as a couple strip bars. |
We have a couple of sex shops around town. The 2 I know of are right in the middle of a couple different strip malls..
Then we have a Strip Club right downtown. There is a tanning salon in one half of the strip club... good place to get a
tan.. haha |
1. South: Adult Emporium, E.14th & Army Post Rd.
2. East: Bachelor"s Library, just west I-235 on Euclid
3. Downtown: The Gallery, 1000 Cherry St. (real street name)
4. East: Minx, 1510 NE Broadway (strip club w/ store)
5. Suburb: Dr. John"s Boutique, 3993 100th St, Urbandale
6. Nearby town: Lion"s Den, Exit 159 off I-80, Newton
May be more . . . this is all I can think of. |
MVC (Manassas Video Club) is located in a strip mall just off of the interstate 66 and 234 business. they actually used
to have several stores in the area, this one is the closest to where I live. I know that one of the other MVCs in
Centerville just closed a few months ago - I guess the shitty economy has spilled over into how much porn is bought by
consumers. |
made a mistake when I added this one - I was an idiot and didn"t change from Alabama to Virginia. I"m the one who
told of the one off of I-66 and 234 business. |
The place used to be a really, really seedy motel. Now it"s a really, really seedy novelty shop. Hooray! |
A bigtime step up from the shop above. They also sell a plethora of "tobacco" pipes. Get your vibrations and
smokations on! |
Colfax has everything. Sex shops, hookers, crack, and a tranny with one eye. |
This is a small(ish) mid-western, Christian town, so sex shops and strip clubs are frowned upon. Our one sex shop is
just at the city limit, next door to a soybean factory and the nearest strip club is in Payson, about fifteen miles
away. |
The one or two places in the shpping areas seem to be a bit more upscale. I think there might be one in South Raleigh,
too, in an industrial area. Might be closed though, I don"t know. |
There is actually a sex shop right next to a mattress store in my little town. Across the street one way is an Amish
Touch furniture store, and across the street the other way is the local mall. You can hardly even tell it"s there when
you drive by it every day. |
Sex shops and gambling are illegal in Lafayette Parish, but as soon as you cross the line into St. Martin Parish there
is literally a sex shop across the street from a casino. |
I think it would be easier to name the locales within LA that forbid naughty shoppes. |
yeah, toronto just lets its sex shops go pretty much anywhere. there are alot of strip clubs along the lakeshore in
etobicoke, but most importantly there is a sex shop in etobicoke that has a neon sign in the window directing customers
to the entrance. it flashes "ENTRANCE AT REAR" |
While by far not the only one in town, this place is woman-owned, queer and everyone else friendly and on the bike
path/bus accessible. In a strip mall with an external drop off box for rentals when they"re closed. It"s just so dang
*friendly*. |
This town is 5 minutes south of Parkersburg and is home to a couple of truck stops, hotels, and adult entertainment
stops. In the past 10 years, two strip clubs and an adult book store have opened taking the business away from
defending champ 7th street in downtown Parkersburg. |
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There is a porn store on the south side of Youngstown on Market St. I got kicked out once for trying to taste the lube.
But I"d have to say other than that, it"s an anything goes kind of place, the hookers aren"t too far up the street
either, if you catch my drift... It"s a gross place. |
ABC Bookstore....downtown across from Greyhound bus station. |
Our sex shops are on the ouskirts of town. Towards I-95. Their not really in bad areas but the strip club (notice not
plural haha) is there too. Girls looking for work are few and far between. |
They are all over around here. |
Well-known for its alternative culture vibe, the area centered at the intersection is home to many sex and fetish type
shops. It helps that it is adjacent to Boystown, the heart of GLBTQ Chicago. Overall, it *is* actually a pretty sexy
part of town. |
strip clubs everywhere. i am not joking. dunno about sex shops though. |
There"s a sex shop on Devonshire just west of Sepulveda. In the same building there"s a mattress store and a Thai
restaurant. Imagine, all your evening"s necessities are covered in a single shopping trip! |
My wife runs one on the Internet (http://www.covenantspice.com). She rents an unused corner at a local office to keep
her products and com It is great, as I get to help test the products ;)
I know of two "lingerie shops:" one in Old Colorado City and one near Briargate Mall.
Two "porn" shops: one on Fillmore & Nevada, and one across from Citadel Mall.
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