Porn Store Clerks Insist They Are Not Into Porn At All

[matcom]

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Stereotypes being what they are, you'd think the guys running the porn shop in El Cerrito would be, well, kinda slimy. And stereotypes being what they are, the guys who work nights at the Adult Variety Store assumed the same about the customers.

"I thought it'd be little old men wearing trench coats, you know, flashers,'' says one of the nighttime salesmen, who wants to go by the name John Hamilton, a mix of his middle name and his mother's maiden name.

But, he was relieved to discover, "it's not that at all.''

In his year at the surprisingly clean and brightly lit shop on San Pablo Avenue, there has not been a single dirty old man -- or, at least, none wearing a trench coat. Instead, the clientele includes the well-to-do from the hills, doctors, hip-hop artists, secretaries, nurses, cops, construction workers, husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, lesbian and gay couples, and lawyers, including one they recognized from his TV commercials.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/14/DDGS68N8T61.DTL

[pagerbear]

1. Former porn store clerk here

I was into the porn. And the sleazy customers.

[eyesroll]

2. Makes sense, actually...

Do you really want to take work home?

[underpants]

3. Secretaries?!?! Nurses?!?!?

Helloooooooooo Nurse!

[mark0rama]

4. Thread title looks like an Onion headline!

Story make sense though, having that much porn around me all day would make me want to run screaming from the place.

[djeseru]

5. Like McDonalds employees...

...can't stand the McFood. I worked in a French bakery one summer and by the end, I hated the food there.

[Phillycat]

6. True porn clerk stories.

http://www.improvresourcecenter.com/mb/tpcs.html

Entertaining!

[Tabasco_Dave]

7. who goes to porn stores anymore?

Since i got the internet i haven't bought a skin mag in years. in fact i have burned out on porn and rarely look at it anymore.

[Jack_Dawson]

9. No! Did you intervene?

[Tabasco_Dave]

13. No

I didn't look at much hardcore stuff. mostly the kind of things you see in Playboy. When i first got a computer I looked at that stuff constantly but after a year i got bored with it and moved on.

[LynzM]

10. Well, not just for the mags, per se...

If you want to check out *ahem* items before buying them... the internet can be pretty bad for that... :evilgrin:

[Jokerman]

8. I managed a video store that rented XXX movies...

Got to see all types. One guy whipped it out & started masturbating right in front of the video shelves.

One old guy stopped in every couple of days when his retirement home bus came to the shopping center. All he ever rented was adult movies. I thought he was gonna keel over one day when he walked into the adult section and saw a young woman selecting a tape.

He asked me after she left, "so women rent these things too? I guess times have changed."

[underpants]

11. You got anything with midgets f**king?

Actual quote.

I guy I used to work with's roomate was a fanatic. He not only rented 5 tapes every other day, he copied all of them. There were tons of tapes in his room (I just looked in). He ended up joining the Marines.

Anyone the local video store with a "backroom" was also very popular for regular videos. One Friday night amongst all the soccer Mom's and kids renting "The Little Mermaid" and "Lion King" he just walks in the door and gets in line. He didn't even go to the back room-they knew him there he was a regular. He waits and waits in line and finally steps up to the corner and with no shame or any attempt to keep it quiet asks the clerk, "You got anything with midgets f**king?"

True story.

[chiburb]

12. So what if I did? It saved me an hour of searching! n/t

[Jokerman]

14. Do you have Sex With A Smile?

We used to get calls all the time from a guy who would get a female clerk to answer and then start asking loaded questions like the one above.

We weren't supposed to discuss adult movies or titles at the front desk but one time I caught a clerk filling out one of those old time, credit card slips with the titles the customer was renting:

Yank My Doodle, It's a Dandy!
Dick Man & Throbbin
Back Door Babes #7

I grabbed the form, tore it up and instructed the clerk to make out a new one with only "movie rental" as the description.

I didn't think the credit card company or anyone else that might see the receipt needed all the details.

[liontamer]

15. I think it's funny that there was even an article

especially in a SF paper. I thought public perceptions of porn were changing. I guess I spend too much time around NYU