Why Sell Kinky Sex Toys?
• BDSM
BDSM merchant Joel Tucker, the man behind The Stockroom, talks about his motivation:
“I guess some people get into the business just because they see it as easy money,” Tucker says, “As opposed to having a little more idealistic motivation that involves helping people to actualize their sexual fantasies and lead more fulfilling lives.
“That was part of [starting] it: The combination of the interesting sex, the sense of having an idealistic mission – it’s a community of people that, especially in the ’80s, was considered very taboo,” he adds. “And kind of dark and scary to a lot of people, and I didn’t see it that way. I thought it was fine. I was in college at a liberal school, and we’re talking a lot about sexism and racism and homophobia, and how we shouldn’t be sexist and we shouldn’t be homophobic and we shouldn’t be racist, and in my mind I kind of extended that same kind of liberal thinking to kink. You know, there’s kink-phobia out there.”
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