BY Lux Alptraum
March 5, 2008
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Should novelty stores like Spencer’s Gifts carry sex toys? The chain store’s naughty wares have North Carolina parents (and the local news, natch) in an uproar: apparently, parents aren’t too keen on their kids being able to find sex-themed products at their local mall.

At the same time (albeit across the country), the Chico State sex columnist has written a piece revealing that she purchased her first vibrator at Spencer’s. It seems this bastion of corruption was the only non-skeevy place she could go to purchase a sex toy (clearly, she has a different definition of skeevy than we do).

Does having sex toys in mall stores corrupt minors? Or does it make sex toys more accessible to people who might shy away from 18 and over stores? Or is it a little of both?

We prefer to purchase sex toys from clean, well-lit stores like Babeland and Good Vibrations — but we’re also aware that that’s not an option for everyone, as these stores mainly exist in dense urban areas.

We’d also be remiss if we failed to point out that some of our favorite sex toys can be purchased at places like the Sharper Image — and no one seems interested in making that place 18+.