"Some people aren’t comfortable shopping for this stuff," Swartz said, "and they’re even less comfortable talking about it."Ĭount me among them. (This was especially true in the Bi-Tranny video section, where it was almost always accompanied by contact-avoiding eyes.) "No, thanks, I’m just looking" is the only response I got when I asked. (The fine for admitting minors is $50,000.) Then he checks out candles, books, gag gifts and many other things he’s not really here for - much as he might buy cigarettes and gum at a magazine rack to create the impression that the Penthouse Forum he traveled across town for is really an afterthought.Īnd forget about wanting help. He’s carded to make sure he’s older than 18. Here’s the typical pattern: A man enters the store. In fact, most males I observed tonight were reluctant to touch anything without checking over each shoulder to make sure their high-school gym teacher wasn’t looking. Women are way more comfortable with this stuff. "This is only the third store we’ve been to," Joanne says. Another part of a clerk’s job at Dejá Vu is to test all battery-operated merchandise before purchasing. Right now I’m at the front counter a few minutes earlier, where Joanne has just plopped down eight sex toys.
I’ll get back to the most potentially traumatizing moment of my life later. "Which one vibrates the hardest?" asks a woman who identifies herself only as Joanne. Swartz shines a flashlight and all three figures begin rifling through their pants. What I really want to do is speed home and scrub my eye sockets with a toilet brush. "You can turn the lights on if you want," Swartz tells me. We enter the room on the left, interrupting the simultaneous double-feature of "Transsexual Prostitutes" and "Sharp Shooters." As my eyes adjust, the silhouettes of three figures materialize.
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"Some men come in here to watch a gay movie because they’re married, with kids, and their wife doesn’t know they’re gay," Swartz explained. According to Swartz, if two men are sitting in adjacent seats, "they’re most likely gonna fool around - or try to."Įarlier, I saw one customer dart from the straight theater to the gay one.
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Inside each screening room, eight seats face two wall-mounted TV monitors. "It’s not legal to do the things that they try and do in there," says manager Megan Swartz, my boss for the night, "but most people go in there to try and do them." Tropicana Ave., one of my responsibilities is to enforce the laws spelled out by a sign outside: no minors, public exposure or sexual activity. As a clerk for Dejá Vu Adult Emporium at 4335 W. You will not be proud of what your son is doing this week. It’s now my job to check behind the door on the left. Behind the right, a theater screens pornos that are heterosexual.
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