Why exactly is that? It’ll be 3:00 in the morning, everything else is closed, the town is dark, but the local smut shop is open. Every one I drive by has a sign in bold letters “OPEN 24 HOURS”. Are they really making much money at that time of night?
Milwaukee has local smut shops? I thought they were all down by Kenosha on the interstate!
Why are porn stores always open 24 hours?
'Cause Mrs Palmer never says no. 
Because during the day I have to work, and the evening is usually spent with Astrogirl…
The only time I can get there is after 11:00 or so, and I need time to BROWSE, if ya know what I mean!
Damn! These leather chaps and nipple clamps are uncomfortable… [sup]OH YEAH!![/sup]
Seriously, though… I bet it’s pretty cheap to hire some chump for minimum wage to clerk all night long, and they must be making money or they wouldn’t be open 24 hours! Must be enough guys who visit during the night (maybe after the wife has gone to bed, and there is no chance of the neighbors recognizing the car) to make it profitable…
Yeah. They have one right on the corner of 97th and Greenfield Avenue that everyone is super pissed about, because it’s in a residential area with kids and such. It’s very out of place and very inappropriate to be there. And, of course, it too is open 24 hours.
Actually, i’d be willing to bet they get more bussiness at night than during the day since alot of people might not wanna be seen going in or out of those places.
The fact that porn is an “impulse” buy wouldn’t have anything to do with it, would it? giggle
Well i know i never woke up in the middle of the night and thought “I could really go for some porn right about now”.
Porn sleeps for no man.
Or something like that.
They even still have porn stores? I figured that, with all the free porn on the net, Porn stores would have gone the way of the vinyl record and the 8-track.
Huh.
Yes, there are a lot of them out there. I can think of four immediately, in small towns around mine. Two in Newburgh, NY alone. The fact that they both adjoin the Air National Guard Base at Stewart Aiport must be purely co-incidental…
I’ve typically found them near off-ramps to interstates. Why, I don’t know. How many seasoned truckers can drive a big rig at 2am, and also view hardcore porn on their vcr/tv combo??? I guess the answer is…a lot?
The business of going at night makes sense to me. Usually the parking is in FRONT, and visible from the roadway. You’re in Podunkyville USA, and most everyone knows your car. God knows everyone in town knows mine. How many dark blue Quests with gay pride rainbows on the back and a green emergency light on top are there in my town anyway…
I wonder if there is a national association. Seriously. While I disagree with the thought of one being in a highly residential area, the idea of the stores being 24-hour doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
It’s not like I keep a case of Astroglide in the garage or anything. God forbid I would run out… :rolleyes: .
Cartooniverse
The video store by interstate 894? I thought it was a mom and pop competitor to blockbuster. Oh well. I thought Milwaukee zoned porno out by mandating that 2/3 or some such percentage of the merchandise sold must be non-porno. But I remember that from years ago. Maybe things changed.
As to why they’re open 24 hours, I guess there’s a demand for them.
I always liked Baltimore’s solution to the problem, cram it all (adult entertainment) in one area of town, then build a police station next to it.
Gosh, I guess in some ways I’m doubly lucky. First of all, (one of) the local porn store has parking in the back, secondly, it’s all of eight blocks from home.
Unfortunately [sub](um, if I went there, of course - which I don’t)[/sub], it’s only open until 2 AM. [sub]Or so I’ve heard.[/sub]
Hard as it may be for folks like us to believe, most Americans still aren’t on the Internet.
I know the owner of the Red Barn and the parking there is around back. The owner is seldom there, he just stops by to pick up money.
The major porn shops here also sell “tobacco accessories” (tobacco water pipes, tobacco one-hitters, tobacco gas masks, tobacco coke spoons, etc.) - is this just a local phenomenon or is it like this all over?
Maybe that’s another reason they’re open 24 hours… I suppose it’s easier to move a 6-foot bong around without raising suspicion when it’s dark out.
Here’s one of the few areas where Australia outranks the USA - we have one of the highest internet usage rates in the world.
Which may explain why two attempts to establish a smut shop in my town have failed in the last three years. Why buy naughty photos in magazines when you can download them for free?
The answer is obvious: if the night at the singles bar is a total loss, you can always pick up something for Five-Fingers-Mary on the way home.
[Homer Simpson hijack]
(Homer has just been in a car accident)
Insurance agent: This “Moe’s” you were at–this is a business establishment of some sort?
Homer’s Brain: Don’t tell him it’s a bar! But what else is open late at night?
Homer: It’s a pornography store. I was buying pornography.
Brain: Heh heh. I would have never thought of that.
[/Homer Simpson hijack]