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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:

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Kop On

One eyed Jack wrote: »

And now they have one less thing to worry about.

The 4 lanes of traffic on the Drumcondra road less than 10 yards from the school presents more of a danger/worry than the adult store.

MonsterCookie wrote: »

So, we don't want our son to see the **** in the window or to encounter creepy characters that might be drawn to the shop.

Did you protest up at the omni cinema when 50 shades was showing in a screen right next door to Frozen or any other kids film?!

Some right 'creepy characters' going to watch that 50 shades stuff.

Enjoy Heroin Responsibly

aloyisious wrote: »

Is that the EU approved model or the cheap copy from China?

The latter

The EU approved version would be 230 volts :pac:

fleet_admiral

Enjoy Heroin Responsibly wrote: »

The latter

The EU approved version would be 230 volts :pac:

Ever lick a 9v battery?.......

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

MonsterCookie wrote: »

So, we don't want our son to see the **** in the window or to encounter creepy characters that might be drawn to the shop.

He's more likely to encounter creepty characters outside Cleary's or Eason's on O'Connell street than he is while he's at school because there's a sex shop 200 yards away!

Hardly a mature or relaistic fear.

Muahahaha

Sex shops aren't good for property prices and many in Drumcondra are in huge negative equity. I don't believe this is only about the children tbh

glued

DivingDuck wrote: »

Is it too cynical to wonder if this location was chosen in part because of the press and discussion it would generate? A sex shop opening in the city isn't generally news anymore, certainly not the way it would have been twenty or thirty years ago.

I think rent and location are a far bigger concern for a private business than gaining negative publicity from the State Broadcaster.

What are parents worried about? That their young kids will develop some kind of perverted fetish from being close to a sex shop?

I think the kids will be just fine with or without the sex shop.

Bridge93

If it's a primary school how much contact are the kids realistically going to have seeing this shop?
I mean aren't they in school all day? And I remember in primary school being dropped to the yard/gate by my parents and picked up from the same point or walking home.
I can't see the kids hanging around at that age outside the school gates and being influenced by some shop, which many of them won't know the purpose of. Well they will now with the fuss kicked up about it.
I can see why parents may be upset but I feel it's fairly unnecessary.

steddyeddy

Muahahaha wrote: »

Sex shops aren't good for property prices and many in Drumcondra are in huge negative equity. I don't believe this is only about the children tbh

I agree.

TherapyBoy

About the dildos & gimp-suits being visable on display in the windows, all the windows upstairs & down and also the glass in the door was covered with a frosted silver-coloured printed vinyl so you couldn't see anything inside the store from outside or you couldn't see outside from inside.

aloyisious

I suppose the inner city business districts are better for sex shops, if one was to compare Capel St to Drumcondra, going by one shop window with various paraphernalia on show in a more overt way than the Temple Bar shop mentioned earlier. And no, I don't have shares in either. Some-one more knowledgeable than I had to explain to me what some items were intended for.

murpho999

Candie wrote: »

I know and know of not a single person who thinks anything like the above. Maybe there were elements of those attitudes 30 years ago, but I've never encountered anything like it.

Since when has ANYONE ever thought of sex as not normal anyway?

I don't think sex is fully thought of as normal here, it has improved but it's not fully there.

If so then this issue with the shop would not be an issue

Also, in most households, parents would not allow a older child in late teens to early twenties have their 'partner' (hate that word) sleep in same room with them which would be very different to how it would be abroad.

MonsterCookie

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

He's more likely to encounter creepty characters outside Cleary's or Eason's on O'Connell street than he is while he's at school because there's a sex shop 200 yards away!

Hardly a mature or relaistic fear.

More likely perhaps but he wouldn't be in the city on his own.

Let's agree to disagree on the maturity thing. I think we simply have different perspectives.

Kirby

You do realise all you have done is highlighted this to the entire school? None of the children would have had a clue about this shop but now it's all the kids will be talking about it because you, the parents, have made it an issue. You are actually propogating the every thing you are afraid of. :P

fatknacker

I was really hoping they'd call it the sex cauldron.

Buona Fortuna

Muahahaha wrote: »

Sex shops aren't good for property prices and many in Drumcondra are in huge negative equity. I don't believe this is only about the children tbh

Good point

We do know that the owner has said he's not opening the store after protests right?

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0622/709814-adult-store-protest/

Outrage, outrage

Streetwalker

Only seeing this now. Christ almighty and some think we have moved on as a people. You can only laugh really.

gramar

Streetwalker wrote: »

Only seeing this now. Christ almighty and some think we have moved on as a people. You can only laugh really.

We have moved on to be fair. 20 years ago the shop would have been burned out and the owners lynched in the street.

whisky_galore

gramar wrote: »

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

Immaculate conceptions perhaps??

Canis Lupus

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Good point

We do know that the owner has said he's not opening the store after protests right?

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0622/709814-adult-store-protest/

Outrage, outrage

Who needs a business when you can have a derelict shop front.

One eyed Jack

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Who needs a business when you can have a derelict shop front.

It's not as though another business can't move in there? Who's really that desperate that they need a sex shop in the same vicinity as a primary school in their community?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

One eyed Jack wrote: »

It's not as though another business can't move in there? Who's really that desperate that they need a sex shop in the same vicinity as a primary school in their community?

Why does having near a school make you more 'desperate'?

One eyed Jack

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Why does having near a school make you more 'desperate'?

Why are you so adamant that a sex shop is necessary in the vicinity of a school?

(I mean, since we're twisting what each other is saying here, might as well go all out!)

My point is that it isn't necessary for a sex shop to be located near a school, there are plenty of retail units in Drumcondra where the business could locate to. It wasn't just parents that protested either but also local retailers and residents in the area.

Is a sex shop a necessity in any community? Certainly not to my knowledge anyway. People are better off ordering online rather than some outdated, over-priced bricks and mortar effort.

steddyeddy

Sex shops aren't a necessity anywhere. The point is should we be letting people dictate what businesses move into the area.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Why are you so adamant that a sex shop is necessary in the vicinity of a school?

(I mean, since we're twisting what each other is saying here, might as well go all out!)

My point is that it isn't necessary for a sex shop to be located near a school, there are plenty of retail units in Drumcondra where the business could locate to. It wasn't just parents that protested either but also local retailers and residents in the area.

Is a sex shop a necessity in any community? Certainly not to my knowledge anyway. People are better off ordering online rather than some outdated, over-priced bricks and mortar effort.

I didn't twist your words, you asked 'were people desperate enough'.

Are off-licences neccesary?

You don't get to moralise as to what forms if business are acceptable or not.

One eyed Jack

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

I didn't twist your words, you asked 'were people desperate enough'.

You did twist my words, and you're even doing it now, instead of addressing what I actually asked, which was -

One eyed Jack wrote: »

It's not as though another business can't move in there? Who's really that desperate that they need a sex shop in the same vicinity as a primary school in their community?

Are off-licences neccesary?

I don't know what you're asking about off-licenses for, this thread is about a sex shop, and whether it was necessary for it to be located near a primary school.

You don't get to moralise as to what forms if business are acceptable or not.

Actually I do, and tough titty on your part if you don't like it. Tough titty on my part if you manage to be successful in opening a sex shop near a school.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

One eyed Jack wrote: »

You did twist my words, and you're even doing it now, instead of addressing what I actually asked, which was

I don't know what you're asking about off-licenses for, this thread is about a sex shop, and whether it was necessary for it to be located near a primary school.

Actually I do, and tough titty on your part if you don't like it. Tough titty on my part if you manage to be successful in opening a sex shop near a school.

You quoted what i said you quoted and then clarified nothing.

No tough anything on my part - I got the hell out - mainly because i like to live in a free and open-minded society where mindless mob mentality doesn't get to dictate economuc or social policy and is largely ignored and treated like the scaremongering ignorance it is.

ScumLord

MonsterCookie wrote: »

In general, sex shops can be discreet but don't have to be. Also, irish sex shops tend to be quite seedy and attract a wide range of types from the ordinary to the downright creepy.

From what I remember on the Newstalk interview of the owner of the shop the majority of their customers are women.

I really don't know why Irish people hold onto this 1990s action film like good guys and bad guys view of the world.

ohnonotgmail

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.

what do you think they were praying for?

whisky_galore

ScumLord wrote: »

From what I remember on the Newstalk interview of the owner of the shop the majority of their customers are women.

I really don't know why Irish people hold onto this 1990s action film like good guys and bad guys view of the world.

The man in the dirty mac is your stereotypical sex shop customer, that doesn't appear to be the case anymore.
Why don't people get on their high horses about betting shops and shock horror...pubs? But of course pubs are socially acceptable here, great place to bring the kids.

fatknacker

Wonder how many if these spazzos were reading 50 Shades in front of their precious darlings too.
Not that it matters of course.