Reactions In a Toy Shop

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Amanda Lothe Dr. Margaret Psych 2306 23 February 2012 Exploration 1 The topic I decided to discuss in my first exploration is people’s reactions and behaviors (including my own) while in a sex toy shop. The place I went to doubles as a smoke shop so they receive a wide variety of people that come in. I had so much fun, and surprisingly found myself feeling super uncomfortable at times, while I visited. My cousin works at this place, so after I looked around for a little bit I asked her and her manager a few questions about some of the visitors they get in the store. When you first walk into the store, there is sexy female clothing (particularly what you would see on a stripper) on the left, and there is a bunch of male t-shirts on the right in the first half of the store. When you walk towards the back, it is sectioned off with a sign explaining that you must be at least 18 to enter and browse. In this back section, on the left there are a bunch of smoking accessories, and on the right there is TONS of sex toys, videos, lubricants, condoms, accessories- just about everything. I’ve never really been super educated about sex, or really know much about the creative side of sex, so all of these toys/videos/accessories really caught me off guard! I had been in the store before, but never really bothered looking around in this particular section. As I was browsing, I was really intrigued with how creative some people are! I have never seen so many types of vibrators and dildos in my entire life- and some of them were actually really pretty (the pink sparkly ones were my favorite)! The fetish section and the bathroom toys section were particularly the most interesting to me. The choking collars and the chairs that have all kinds of chains and buckles to hold someone down sort of really freaked me out and interested me at the same time. I found it interesting that

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