I worked part-time in one such shop back in Honolulu. Aaxtion Video was its name. An adult video and “book” store. I needed to pick up some extra cash my last semester at the U of Hawaii, and a friend worked in the shop’s adjacent strip club and recommended me. My main job was to keep the little video booths in order, which basically meant sweeping up the used Kleenex – there was a dispenser handily supplied in each one – after the patron had finished, um, watching the movie. Restocked the Kleenex too. It was actually a neat job, as there were quite some interesting characters that worked there. Some “live action” booths in the back too, where some girls would entice you into a booth, then they’d perform for you behind a glass wall as long as you kept feeding dollars into the machine.
One of the big managers hadn’t caught on that I was working part-time only because I was a student, and since I wasn’t the sleazy type that they often got, he started promising to bump me up to full-time until I told him I really couldn’t. But they did trust me to go out with them to the airport and pick up the visiting stars who were performing for a week or two at their strip club. To carry their luggage and stuff. Some of these were major porn stars whose names you might recognize. There was also the girl with a 100-inch-plus bust. She’d been on some national talk show due to her breast size. Was pretty nice to talk to. It turned out that she’d had friends in the past who lived in the same aprtment complex I used to in Albuquerque, although I don’t think at the same time as I’d been there. The reason they needed someone they could trust was because this meant I was privy to the hotel room they used in Waikiki to put these girls up. That was a company secret, because the girls needed to be able to rest assured where they were staying wouldn’t get out, and most of the staff were not allowed to know where this was. Strictly a need-to-know basis.
Possibly the most interesting job I’ve ever had.