Downtown Books

I’ve shopped in this several times and found it to be a ok store little small. Decent amount selection. If I a have a question, there employees help me out with no problem! But I do see other customers give staff a hard time & disrespectful & flip at the mouth with the must simplest requests like leaving bags at the counter, checking ID or other things. I couldn’t see myself working here with the kinda clientele that walk in all the time creepy and shady!

It’s just so nice to walk into a place and have the employees start screaming at you. Instead of politely asking me to leave my bag behind the counter I was rudely accosted like I had killed somebody’s first born.

While out and about with the wonderfully fabulous Marc C — we were near Downtown Books and he told me I just HAD to see it. Well, I’m not one to pass up on an adventure, so I told him to bring it on.
When you walk up, the windows are all frosted so you can’t see inside. The first layer of the store is nothing porn or sex shop related. It has crossword puzzles, magazines, old 80’s DVDs and VHS tapes, oh… and more crossword puzzles.
You walk through two doors to the back. Obviously, the front area with it’s decoy merchandise doesn’t get much action. As soon as you walk through that 2^nd door, there are sex toys galore right in your face… and quirky fetish porn. There are lots of VHS tapes — not something you really see these days. A lot of the sex toys are GYNORMOUS. Whoever needs some of these things, wow… how do you… what do you… I don’t even want to know. My «innocent» brain can’t grasp that concept.
This is some place I would go for a bachelor/​bachelorette gift. Nothing says «good luck on your marriage» than a huge derrière cork or a guide to fisting, accompanied with a prosthetic fisting device and some 80’s porn entitled «Cum Dumpster.»

This being review 69, I felt it only appropriate that the review be smut related.
First off, this place has bad porn. Really. Bad. Porn. There is just no quality stuff jumping out at you. To give you and idea, they have what appears to be a few hundred VHS porn tapes from the eighties. I don’t even know many people that still even have a VCR anymore. The section with the gay porn is really small. Thankfully the gays are crafty people and have internet access.
Also, I am not an expert, but it seems that many of the adult toys are even more expensive than at other places and the variety just isn’t there.
So you may ask why this review has four stars, and the answer is easy. This is a great place to go to with a friend and laugh uncontrollably at the little discoveries you each make. We saw everything from fake fists resembling a dildo (is the plural of dildo spelled dildos or dildoes?), to manuals on how to fist someone (we were really freaked out about those). You have to wonder how people put some of these huge things where they probably put them, but I suggest you not dwell on that thought too long like I did. From bad porn, to really creepy porn. This trip we learned that apparently swingers do not have internet access since they carried obviously home made «magazines» featuring personal ads from grandparents trying to hook up with other grandparents. It is also great to watch other people in the store and what they are looking at.
As added bonuses, the Tam is right around the corner, and it is in an especially seedy spot so you feel even dirtier going in there. It is fun to pretend you are playing a real life game of Frogger but instead of cars you have to maneuver around crack heads.