Confessions of a sex shop clerk

October 21, 2001 12:06 AM

Confessions of a sex shop clerk - What makes me think this is the kind of job everyone else dreams of in secret? Anyways, as a sidenote, we'd definitely be better off making love instead of war right now, don't you think?
posted by betobeto (7 comments total)

Don't worry, there's plenty of time to have sex and kill terrorists. In fact, while I make love, money I paid in taxes is being used to pay younger, tougher men to make war, which seems to me an excellent use of everyone's talents and proclivities.

You're mistaken in this as well: the job I dream of in secret is Presidential Nap-Taker. This would be the person who takes all the afternoon naps that Bush used to enjoy but is presumably too busy for now. I like naps, and I think I'm qualified to nap at the professional level.

Sex, and naps; and bad people killed on my behalf. That's what America means to me. (It's funny because it's true!)
posted by nicwolff at 1:27 AM on October 21, 2001

Hmmm, working in a sex shop; the smell of stale semen, the friendly customers, the prestiege...
posted by hotdoughnutsnow at 8:06 AM on October 21, 2001

After having a friend who worked in a porno store tell me about the type of work that they had to outsource (i.e. "jizz moppers") - all of a sudden it didn't seem so cool anymore.
posted by rks404 at 8:13 AM on October 21, 2001

had a friend who worked manger for one of those places.... he had discount passes...i was young.(NO, never for this guy)
posted by newnameintown at 8:42 AM on October 21, 2001

Think how much better the world would be today if Osama had learned to love porn at an early age.
posted by MAYORBOB at 8:48 AM on October 21, 2001

It depends what KIND of sex shop. I just applied at Toys in Babeland, but that's a VERY different kind of shop than, say, Fantasy Unlimited. You definitely won't find "the smell of stale semen" at Babeland.
posted by arielmeadow at 3:07 PM on October 21, 2001

arielmeadow's comment above draws an excellent distinction between "female-friendly" sex shops and the traditional male-oriented porn palaces. Another example is Good Vibrations, located in San Francisco and Berkeley.
posted by Carol Anne at 5:37 AM on October 22, 2001