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  • 06-09-2013 11:32am
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    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭


    There are a few sex shops around Dublin which I noticed are open all day and all night. I don't get how they manage to stay open. I cant see a demand that keeps these shops open, with rent and wages to staff how this is viable.

    What exactly could be in demand that much to keep them open nearly 24 hours a day? I'm sure there are only so many dildos one would buy. With free porn on the web and web based sex shops who would be frequenting that much to keep them open?

    What is it I'm missing about these shops?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Deviants with long macs on.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Always wondered it myself.
    Reckon its a brothel.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    Some lovin!


  • Registered Users Posts: 463 ✭✭Christ the Redeemer


    bum dildos.


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    Mr.McLovin wrote: »
    There are a few sex shops around Dublin which I noticed are open all day and all night. I don't get how they manage to stay open. I cant see a demand that keeps these shops open, with rent and wages to staff how this is viable.

    What exactly could be in demand that much to keep them open nearly 24 hours a day? I'm sure there are only so many dildos one would buy. With free porn on the web and web based sex shops who would be frequenting that much to keep them open?

    What is it I'm missing about these shops?
    They are not real shops at all. They are fronts for the CIA, MI6 etc. etc.:eek:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭LittleFox


    Ha well not everyone is vanilla, some people like to physically see the products before they buy and some of the shops cater to particular kinks.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    LittleFox wrote: »
    Ha well not everyone is vanilla, some people like to physically see the products before they buy and some of the shops cater to particular kinks.

    I think the OP is wondering more about their 24 hour nature rather than their existence.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    If you ask the woman behind the counter for a 99 she will suck you off.


  • Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭LittleFox


    Yeah they aren't open 24 hours and the simplest reason is people wanting to see before they buy. Also some couples enjoy the thrill of going into a shop and buying together


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    Haven't been in one in Ireland, but in Oz the are basically gay cruising hangouts. They show gay porn and guys go in and have sex with each other.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 43,027 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    The dungeons in the basements is where they make the real money not upstairs on the shop floor


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    I think the OP is wondering more about their 24 hour nature rather than their existence.

    People need butt plugs and nipple clamps at 5:30 in the morning, simples.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    They are not real shops at all. They are fronts for the CIA, MI6 etc. etc.:eek:

    Exactly.
    Approach the counter and whisper the secret code "Dial M for Midget" to the assistant, and all will be revealed!


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mr.McLovin wrote: »
    What exactly could be in demand that much to keep them open nearly 24 hours a day?


    What is it I'm missing about these shops?

    Sometimes your need to indulge your barbed wire/rubber and jam fetish simply cannot wait, and the 24h nature of these shops comes into it's own.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,255 ✭✭✭✭Esoteric_


    So people who don't get the ride on a night out have somewhere to go to buy a fake fanny/penis to satisfy their needs for the night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,411 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Sex shop is a bit of a misnomer really,is it not?
    Really.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Esoteric_ wrote: »
    So people who don't get the ride on a night out have somewhere to go to buy a fake fanny/penis to satisfy their needs for the night.

    And to think all the free porn on line ,

    Fake fannies and cocks terrible waste of money ,

    Aldi have a sale on fruit


  • Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭heretochat


    Esoteric_ wrote: »
    So people who don't get the ride on a night out have somewhere to go to buy a fake fanny/penis to satisfy their needs for the night.

    I was also going to suggest that there may be cheaper alternatives :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Don't they have little curtained off boothes that show porn, so you can pull the bar off yourself in privacy? The booths are rented out by the quarter of the hour.

    That's what I've heard.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,255 ✭✭✭✭Esoteric_


    Gatling wrote: »
    And to think all the free porn on line ,

    Fake fannies and cocks terrible waste of money ,

    Aldi have a sale on fruit

    Cucumbers/carrots/parsnips/whatever phallic vegetable you want do not vibrate. Nuff said.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    Money laundering and the likes. Most guys in that trade are know pumps etc.

    Sure that lad ' irelands youngest Pimp' as papers called him has a sex shop at the end of Marys Street in Dublin 1, just down from nandos .... Never a soul in it though but yet he drives around in a new KIA jeep and a fairly new 5 series.....

    Go figure lol


  • Registered Users Posts: 10 I Am Fuzzy Dunlop


    dilallio wrote: »
    Exactly.
    Approach the counter and whisper the secret code "Dial M for Midget" to the assistant, and all will be revealed!

    That's the old code. Nowadays you have to walk in and start screaming the Guile theme at the top of your voice!





    ...anyway, I believe there is a certain subculture of guys who get off on going into these seedy little places and some even more so on getting ripped off. :confused: I think there was a thread on this before and someone was saying that some of them have gay 'facilities' too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    italodisco wrote: »
    . Most guys in that trade are know pumps etc.

    Go figure lol

    Known pimps lol


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    My mates sister owns one and a.lap dancing club , before anyone asks she looks like an NFL quarter back , so no I wouldn,t.
    However she is extremely wealthy,with a huge campervan that she cant drive ,couple of houses and apartments that are mortgage free so clearly the business of providing nipple clamps , strap ons and lap dancers is very lucrative.

    The one downside for her was her husband getting twenty one year old.lap dancer pregnant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    Karl Pilkington - "I was walking past a sex shop an' that. One, it was open early which I never understood, it was about eight o'clock in the morning. Who needs butt plugs then?"


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    mattjack wrote: »
    My mates sister owns one and a.lap dancing club , before anyone asks she looks like an NFL quarter back , so no I wouldn,t.
    However she is extremely wealthy,with a huge campervan that she cant drive ,couple of houses and apartments that are mortgage free so clearly the business of providing nipple clamps , strap ons and lap dancers is very lucrative.

    The one downside for her was her husband getting twenty one year old.lap dancer pregnant.

    You either saw that in a film or (r.e quarterback woman) live in Cavan !!


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    italodisco wrote: »
    You either saw that in a film or (r.e quarterback woman) live in Cavan !!

    Erm , no not in film and Im determined not to insult a county today.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Mr.McLovin wrote: »
    I don't get how they manage to stay open. I cant see a demand that keeps these shops open, with rent and wages to staff how this is viable.


    They can stay open because they make huge profits. Sex toys have a huge markup......ahem....apparently.:o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    About 2 years ago when I was 17 I went on a whistle stop tour of all the sex shops in Dublin looking for a job. None of them hired me :(


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    About 2 years ago when I was 17 I went on a whistle stop tour of all the sex shops in Dublin looking for a job. None of them hired me :(


    Do you look like your username??????


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