Won't somebody please think of the children? Adult Store opens in Drumcondra

Muahahaha

The owners of the online shop Playblue have opened a bricks and mortar shop in Drumcondra right opposite to a boys primary school. RTE News sent cameras down and there was dozens of concerned parents protesting outside, backed up by FG politicians. They're outraged that an adult shop is setting up so close to a school and want it shut down. The shop owner responds to them by saying there is nothing in his shop that cannot be found by any child on a smartphone.
Drumcondra is home to the Archbishop of Dublin and much of the senior Catholic clergy, I'm sticking the popcorn on for this one :pac:

rubadub

Muahahaha wrote: »

Drumcondra is home to the Archbishop of Dublin and much of the senior Catholic clergy

Good customer base so.

ForstalDave

Muahahaha wrote: »

The owners of the online shop Playblue have opened a bricks and mortar shop in Drumcondra right opposite to a boys primary school. RTE News sent cameras down and there was dozens of concerned parents protesting outside, backed up by FG politicians. They're outraged that an adult shop is setting up so close to a school and want it shut down. The shop owner responds to them by saying there is nothing in his shop that cannot be found by any child on a smartphone.
Drumcondra is home to the Archbishop of Dublin and much of the senior Catholic clergy, I'm sticking the popcorn on for this one :pac:

Do you have the address and product list to hand by anychance?

But really do the parents not realise protesting to just going to alert the kids to the fact it is there

eviltwin

Adult shops tend to be very discrete looking from the outside, the name is very innocuous....unless they have dildos and porn mags in the window I don't see the problem. Drawing attention to it in this way just makes it worse.

arayess

if anything we should have more sex shops and normalise sex in society.

clearly leave it 18s to enter but I think it would be better if sex was seen as a normal thing and not something secretive and down dark alleys.

daisybelle2008

Muahahaha wrote: »

The owners of the online shop Playblue have opened a bricks and mortar shop in Drumcondra right opposite to a boys primary school. RTE News sent cameras down and there was dozens of concerned parents protesting outside, backed up by FG politicians. They're outraged that an adult shop is setting up so close to a school and want it shut down. The shop owner responds to them by saying there is nothing in his shop that cannot be found by any child on a smartphone.
Drumcondra is home to the Archbishop of Dublin and much of the senior Catholic clergy, I'm sticking the popcorn on for this one :pac:

Don't see the issue with the boys primary school, it's not as if they are going to serve them! Sex shops exist, you can't protect them from their exisistence.

The_Valeyard

ForstalDave wrote: »

just going to alert the kids to the fact it is there

The ball gag wearing manikin with the giant vibrating purple dildo in the window will probably do that.

I wonder if it is good. Anne Summers is extremely overrated and expensive. Good to see more opening up.

darkpagandeath

Muahahaha wrote: »

The owners of the online shop Playblue have opened a bricks and mortar shop in Drumcondra right opposite to a boys primary school. RTE News sent cameras down and there was dozens of concerned parents protesting outside, backed up by FG politicians. They're outraged that an adult shop is setting up so close to a school and want it shut down. The shop owner responds to them by saying there is nothing in his shop that cannot be found by any child on a smartphone.
Drumcondra is home to the Archbishop of Dublin and much of the senior Catholic clergy, I'm sticking the popcorn on for this one :pac:

I would wager people from the church are more lightly to do things to children than a sex shop. Maybe they should worry more about the members in there. Not like there is a history or anything.

pmasterson95

1. Sex shop could lead to the creation of more children.
2. More children produced means more pupils for the school.
3. More pupils means school stays open.
4. School staying open means kids get educated.


So yes OP the sex shop does think of Children.

Harry Palmr

Is it 1990?

Enjoy Heroin Responsibly

daisybelle2008 wrote: »

Don't see the issue with the boys primary school, it's not as if they are going to serve them! .

If it was an off licence nobody would bat an eyelid.

We live in a somewhat strange society ?

gramar

None of these parents have had sex of course. Oh wait...parents did you say?

steddyeddy

People aren't really protesting are they??

c_man

I'm just totting up how many schools are within a stone's throw of a drinking premises that I know of offhand...

darkpagandeath

If these people had their way the laundries would still be open.

valoren

The Streisand Effect working well

NachoBusiness

Who buys porn in a shop these days ffs.

Even costumes, dildos and the like I would imagine people would prefer to buy online.

I'm surprised they make any money at all.

Samaris

I'm inclined to think that maaaybe opening it directly across the road from a boys' school isn't the best idea in the world, if only because the prospect of being catcalled by a bunch of young eejits for going in would seem to be rather offputting. Not to mention having to chase out youngsters every so often.

From the point of view of the school, yeah, I can see why they'd be a bit pissed off by it too. Adult shops tends to add an extra layer of seediness to an area (probably not least because they tend to be OPENED in relatively seedy areas in the first place) so it's not the best message to be sending to prospective parents.

I don't think it's going to particularly harm or traumatise little William or Jimmy though.

Medusa22

Some people just need a cause to be outraged about. I doubt the children will even notice or pay attention to the shop, it is usually some of the self-righteous parents who make a fuss even though the children remain unaffected.

Nodster

eviltwin wrote: »

Adult shops tend to be very discrete looking from the outside, the name is very innocuous....unless they have dildos and porn mags in the window I don't see the problem. Drawing attention to it in this way just makes it worse.

.....you'd be morto if you saw some of the shop window displays in the Castro district of San Francisco :eek:

gramar

There is no way a school should be across the road from that type of establishment. Close the school I say.

jimgoose

As far as I'm concerned both schools and sex-shops lower the tone of the place. Burn both of 'em out, I sez.

SEPT 23 1989

thats Berties old constituency office

CFlat

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

thats Berties old constituency office

So many dildo jokes, so little time.

diomed

Adults in Drumcondra. That's newsworthy?

jimgoose

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

thats Berties old constituency office

Ah yes. To dust off PJ Mara's wonderful term, the Cliterati! :pac:

murpho999

What are people protesting about here?

What do they expect their precious children to be exposed too.

They are all looking at as much porn as they want on the internet so they will have no need for this shop.

Catholic Ireland really needs to grow up and rid itself of it's 'sex is shameful' hang ups.

Pumpkinseeds

Anyone remember the outrage when they opened the first sex shop in Limerick? Crowds in the street praying etc.:D The same god botherers probably hadn't had a decent seeing to for decades.

Pumpkinseeds

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Anyone remember the outrage when they opened the first sex shop in Limerick? Crowds in the street praying etc.:D The same god botherers probably hadn't had a decent seeing to for decades.

My aunt opened up the first family planning clinic in the West, operating it out of the house herself and her-then husband lived in. She once told us that they had people outside their house on a daily basis doing the rosary.

bb1234567

Who cares? Most adult shops Ive seen have covered front facade windows so you can't see inside, and also have a secure door with a bell so you can be buzzed in. Its not like 9 year olds are gonna be walking into it

PizzamanIRL

In a strange way, they kind of are thinking of the children.

ScumLord

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Who buys porn in a shop these days ffs.

Even costumes, dildos and the like I would imagine people would prefer to buy online.

I'm surprised they make any money at all.

They were on Newstalk a week or two ago and they basically are an online business. The shop will be as much for storage as anything else, I don't think they really expect a lot of walk in business.

seamus

I'm waiting for someone to post a picture which shows that "across the road from a boy's school" actually means, "half a kilometre down the road and in a shopping centre", as usually happens with this kind of nonsense story.

RDM_83 again

arayess wrote: »

if anything we should have more sex shops and normalise sex in society.

clearly leave it 18s to enter but I think it would be better if sex was seen as a normal thing and not something secretive and down dark alleys.

I'm not really sure sex shops normalise sex, I mean its taking something humans have done forever and commercialising it.

eviltwin wrote: »

Adult shops tend to be very discrete looking from the outside, the name is very innocuous....unless they have dildos and porn mags in the window I don't see the problem. Drawing attention to it in this way just makes it worse.

Some shops are pretty graphic in terms of props one I used to walk past regularly in templebar had those creepy as hell full body no face pvc restraint suits and gags with attached funnels for "liquids". Obviously I tended to have a gawk at it but I'm not sure its something kids should be exposed too, picture the conversation
"daddy whats that.... well son when two people love each other very much sometimes the dominant partner likes to wrap the submissive in pvc bind them and strap them to the wall, beat them with a riding crop then finish by doing a pee pee in their mouth"

ScumLord

seamus wrote: »

I'm waiting for someone to post a picture which shows that "across the road from a boy's school" actually means, "half a kilometre down the road and in a shopping centre", as usually happens with this kind of nonsense story.

From what I remember of the Newstalk interview they're around a corner down an alleyway. The protesters should help everyone identify where it is.

seamus

ScumLord wrote: »

From what I remember of the Newstalk interview they're around a corner down an alleyway. The protesters should help everyone identify where it is.

Yep, looking at Google maps and the alleged location, it's 200m away, across two roads, and not visible from the front gate of the school.

These protestors are gibbering fncking morons.

Specialun

I hear you can see boobs on the interweb now

One eyed Jack

Medusa22 wrote: »

Some people just need a cause to be outraged about. I doubt the children will even notice or pay attention to the shop, it is usually some of the self-righteous parents who make a fuss even though the children remain unaffected.

This really. There's a couple of sex shops around where I live and in the centre of town there's an Ann Summers shop and a Costa Coffee place. No need to guess where the little fcukers all hang out on their lunch hour with their free wifi and their half cappo-lattes, they've simply no interest in the over-priced shyte in Ann Summers! :pac:

(actually even funnier now I think of it is the Specsavers shop across the road from the Ann Summers shop, it's like they compliment each other! )

arayess wrote: »

if anything we should have more sex shops and normalise sex in society.

clearly leave it 18s to enter but I think it would be better if sex was seen as a normal thing and not something secretive and down dark alleys.

Dunno what rock you've been living under, but sex is normal in society, has been since time began

The days of the bricks and mortar sex shops are numbered anyway with the availability of more choice and better quality products online, and a hell of a lot cheaper too! As another poster already pointed out, this is nothing more than a warehouse for their online sales market. This time next year there won't be a word about it.

One eyed Jack

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Some shops are pretty graphic in terms of props one I used to walk past regularly in templebar had those creepy as hell full body no face pvc restraint suits and gags with attached funnels for "liquids". Obviously I tended to have a gawk at it but I'm not sure its something kids should be exposed too, picture the conversation
"daddy whats that.... well son when two people love each other very much sometimes the dominant partner likes to wrap the submissive in pvc bind them and strap them to the wall, beat them with a riding crop then finish by doing a pee pee in their mouth mind your own business son!"

There, problem solved :pac:

whiskeyman

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

thats Berties old constituency office

So anyone who loves screwing people still visit here...

Not a NSA agent

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Anyone remember the outrage when they opened the first sex shop in Limerick? Crowds in the street praying etc.:D The same god botherers probably hadn't had a decent seeing to for decades.

There was a sex shop opened in Donegal within the last 10 years that had people praying outside of it. I think it was praying, they could have been practicing getting on their knees while they waited to get in the shop.

Muahahaha

ScumLord wrote: »

They were on Newstalk a week or two ago and they basically are an online business. The shop will be as much for storage as anything else, I don't think they really expect a lot of walk in business.

Yeah I heard the owner say that the location of the shop is not for his expectation to have a lot of walk in business, he is locating there because 80,000 cars pass his front door everyday and he hopes them seeing his website address over the door will drive more business to his website. The shop is effectively a warehouse and distributions center for the Dublin area and he has located it on one of the busiest roads in the country as an advertisement to increase online sales.

bb1234567

One eyed Jack wrote: »

This really. There's a couple of sex shops around where I live and in the centre of town there's an Ann Summers shop and a Costa Coffee place. No need to guess where the little fcukers all hang out on their lunch hour with their free wifi and their half cappo-lattes, they've simply no interest in the over-priced shyte in Ann Summers! :pac:

(actually even funnier now I think of it is the Specsavers shop across the road from the Ann Summers shop, it's like they compliment each other! )





Dunno what rock you've been living under, but sex is normal in society, has been since time began

The days of the bricks and mortar sex shops are numbered anyway with the availability of more choice and better quality products online, and a hell of a lot cheaper too! As another poster already pointed out, this is nothing more than a warehouse for their online sales market. This time next year there won't be a word about it.

If it was normal you'd have no problem talking about it to your mum, dad, siblings, grandparents, teachers, boss. But you wouldn't because its not appropriate or normal, sex is only normal when you're with a sexual partner. Whether thats a good thing or not I don't know, but Im just backing up the poster you quoted. Sex isn't normalised in our society, we know everyone does yet we are all secretive about it.

One eyed Jack

bb1234567 wrote: »

If it was normal you'd have no problem talking about it to your mum, dad, siblings, grandparents, teachers, boss. But you wouldn't because its not appropriate or normal, sex is only normal when you're with a sexual partner. Whether thats a good thing or not I don't know, but Im just backing up the poster you quoted. Sex isn't normalised in our society, we know everyone does yet we are all secretive about it.

I think most people understand the difference between 'secretive', and simply being discreet.

I certainly don't want to know what my parents, grandparents, teachers or anyone else for that matter, get up to in their sex life, and I certainly have no wish to discuss my sex life with anyone else. That's perfectly normal and there's nothing secretive about it.

If I want to know the details of someone's sex life, I have no problem in asking them, but I simply have no interest in anyone else's sex life, and most people I know, have no interest in mine! :pac:

It's not the first one in that area.

When I lived in Drumcondra, circa 2011, one of my roommates worked in a porn shop & "adult cinema" nearby. Dodgy as fook. I used to stop by sometimes on my way home from the Wool Shed.

It looked like a 1990s XtraVision, with its old smelly carpet, gaudy purple walls, and shelves of raunchy DVDs. It had a revolting smell of sweat, jizz and cheap cologne.
At the back of the shop, there was a curious little door that let down into a eerie, cold stone stone basement, where pornos were shown on a rickety old projector and middle-aged men pulled the plums off each other.

There was a large, British transexual called Patricia or Deborah or something like that. We talked about Margaret Thatcher. From a nearby school for the deaf, teenagers came to swap used DVDs for new ones. There was a former priest browsing bondage with his Asian boyfriend. There were married taxi-drivers seeking a homosexual rendez-vous.

The place was like a comedy of menaces, from the Harold Pinter plays. A cave of lust and squalor. Never been anywhere quite like it. Would recommend it. Just for a look-see.

suicide_circus

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

It's not the first one in that area.

When I lived in Drumcondra, circa 2011, one of my roommates worked in a porn shop & "adult cinema" nearby. Dodgy as fook. I used to stop by sometimes on my way home from the Wool Shed.

It looked like a 1990s XtraVision, with its old smelly carpet, gaudy purple walls, and shelves of raunchy DVDs. It had a revolting smell of sweat, jizz and cheap cologne.
At the back of the shop, there was a curious little door that let down into a eerie, cold stone stone basement, where pornos were shown on a rickety old projector and middle-aged men pulled the plums off each other.

There was a large, British transexual called Patricia or Deborah or something like that. We talked about Margaret Thatcher. From a nearby school for the deaf, teenagers came to swap used DVDs for new ones. There was a former priest browsing bondage with his Asian boyfriend. There were married taxi-drivers seeking a homosexual rendez-vous.

The place was like a comedy of menaces, from the Harold Pinter plays. A cave of lust and squalor. Never been anywhere quite like it. Would recommend it. Just for a look-see.

That place is the ground floor unit of this building

http://m.rte.ie/news/2015/0515/701360-fire-flats/

Grim to ****

Robsweezie

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Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Muahahaha wrote: »

The owners of the online shop Playblue have opened a bricks and mortar shop in Drumcondra right opposite to a boys primary school. RTE News sent cameras down and there was dozens of concerned parents protesting outside, backed up by FG politicians. They're outraged that an adult shop is setting up so close to a school and want it shut down. The shop owner responds to them by saying there is nothing in his shop that cannot be found by any child on a smartphone.
Drumcondra is home to the Archbishop of Dublin and much of the senior Catholic clergy, I'm sticking the popcorn on for this one :pac:

Only in Ireland (in the western world) woud this constitute "news".

Billy86

rubadub wrote: »

Good customer base so.

The OP said adult store.

kfallon

arayess wrote: »

if anything we should have more sex shops and normalise sex in society.

clearly leave it 18s to enter but I think it would be better if sex was seen as a normal thing and not something secretive and down dark alleys.

*snigger*
Thought the age of consent was 17?