Seems like the whole “Make sex toy stores women friendly boutiques” thing is taking over in Canada as well. They talk about how they are making them more women friendly by adding lots of fluff to the front and putting the hardcore stuff in the back. It’s a grand concept, it makes sense, it works. I am glad to see more and more women buying sex toys and other products to enhance the intimate pleasures that life has to offer.
I am not a big fan about how articles like this seem to put down the porno shops of years past though. In the article they say something like the porn store is no longer for “Dirty old men” – well I take issue with that, sure there are dirty old men that frequent porn stores, and there are also hot young guys who shop there as well. There are plenty of hot young girls too. The main difference that these changes in lighting up the stores, changing some of the packaging and stuff does, is make it more friendly for the “Dirty old women”.
None the less, I am glad to see that the older broads are getting places that make them more comfortable about shopping for anal beads and dildos. Here is a link to the news story.
There is some good in the article, some information from an expert on sex and morality:
Still, we’re definitely not as uptight as we used to be, according to one expert on sex and morality. Women especially are at the forefront of our changing social values around the importance of a healthy, open sex life.
“Once you take up the premise that enjoying sex can be a part of a good relationship, you’re not that far from buying sex toys,” said Patricia Milano, a philosophy professor at the University of Waterloo. “There’s been a very gradual shift in thinking about these things as nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about.”
There once was a time, Milano points out, when women’s sexual aids like vibrators were considered a strictly medical area. Today, most consumers would probably prefer to get that kind of help from a sex shop than from their doctor.
I wonder how you become an expert on sex and morality – is there a special certification for that? I’d like to take the exams! Now that’s got to be a fun list of classes for that major. I wonder how the teachers handle the subject material? She says women are the ones changing the world about seuxality being more open, um, I am pretty sure that the rest of the world has been pretty open about sex for along time, it’s not that women are are changing the world, they are changing themselves. Although I guess you can world it any way you want, since women are a huge part of the world.
