Let me tell you a little secret that only sex shops know

With the popularity of the Internet, sex toy stores seem to have been eliminated by the times - who would go there in person to buy vibrators and pornographic films, or masturbate in public video halls? In fact, not only do they exist, but there are a lot of them. We spoke to sex shop owners Audra Carr and Devan Thayer Lund to find out what their lives are like, and discovered that porn shop employees know us better than our friends and family do — and they know things that our friends and family would be better off not knowing.

I guess most of our readers don’t play SM or attend wife-swapping parties every day - no one will send flyers to inform you of such things. But if you are interested in this, you might as well go to a sex shop and have a look. It will definitely open your eyes. "I am an informant of wife swappers. When they invited me for the first time, I refused because it was beyond my acceptance. But customers kept asking me to do it, so I changed my mind."

At the same time, Audra knew the time and place of the parties held by SM enthusiasts because they always invited her. So, before, when you were sitting in a dessert shop, you were still wondering whether the people at the next table were SM enthusiasts. But after you have been in the sex shop for a few months, you won’t want to know at all.

Some customers come to the sex toy store to buy gifts for their friends' bachelor parties.

Some people really come for what they want. Some patrons seemed to come specifically for the atmosphere. These people don't buy anything, they just come to browse. They treat porn shops as public facilities, like a coffee shop, but surrounded by romantic action movies instead of works of art. "They're not disturbing anyone. They're just lonely and want to talk to someone. That's understandable, but you have to wonder why these horny people are chosen as the targets of loneliness."

Some people make visiting sex shops a family activity - it is not uncommon for women to buy penises with their children in their arms

Obviously, when people buy porn, they don't want to look into the innocent eyes of children. So the store manager would let them leave. "Our store is 18+, no exceptions. Even babies who don't know what they are looking at are not allowed. I once stood outside the store for housewives holding their babies so that they could shop happily inside on their own."

Uses of sex shop video tapes, tape cleaners, etc.

Walk into an adult film den and you might find a strange array of merchandise that appear to have nothing to do with sex, like videotape head cleaners or air fresheners. Who would suddenly remember "Oh, I seem to have run out of laundry detergent" when buying a fake penis? It seems reasonable for a place selling porn to sell tape head cleaner, but who still uses videotapes nowadays? Haha, you are still naive! Amyl nitrite, commonly called "poppers", is used to increase sexual desire, and will make you giggle after inhaling it. Selling poppers is obviously illegal, but using them as a head cleaner is fine. It's actually the same chemical, and everyone knows that you just use it to clean your own head. And it's not illegal, as long as you don't wonder why anyone would use the smell of stinky socks that haven't been washed for a long time as an air freshener.

How to buy porn in a sex shop

If you've ever been to a store to buy porn, you may have noticed that there is a row of rooms in the back of the store, sometimes euphemistically called an "arcade," where customers can "preview" "movies" and then masturbate. Yes, people were still using the video room, so staff had to go in and clean up. You want to know who does this work? Us! But that’s not even the worst of it. “It’s also a great place to get high,” Devan said, meaning it’s not uncommon to see people blacking out or taking too much. When you first see a dead body, you'll think to yourself, "He was just sleeping, sleeping, sleeping." Well, it's all due to heart attacks or drug overdoses.

Valentine's Day has become international mating day

But for many people, ordinary mating can no longer satisfy them on this day. On Valentine's Day, girls finally let go of their armor and let each other explore the mysteries of their butts. As Audra said, "That day, beginner anal plugs, anal lubricants, pegging and other anal-related props were always popular." For the uninitiated, "pegging" is a term coined by readers of sex columnist Dan Savage. It refers to a wearable fake penis that women use to develop men's daisies. If you have prepared a candlelight dinner and red wine and are looking forward to this moment, rest assured, you are not alone. Valentine's Day is truly a day of caring for chrysanthemums, when everyone can liberate themselves.

Christmas is the season for vibrators, dildos and masturbators

There are several reasons for this. Apparently some people like to get this stuff as gifts (though for God's sake, please be careful when filling out the delivery form - you don't want your gran to help you unpack it and then have to explain that it's a 'back massager'), and Christmas itself is a great day to relax. That's right - part of the reason those little toys are on sale at Christmas is because a few bad guys among us like to sneak them around the tree. "I sold tons and tons of 'bunnies' in the two weeks before Christmas. If you don't know what a bunny is, it's a vibrator... just go to Baidu and look it up when you get home from get off work."