adult store
Erotic merchandise retailer
An adult store is a retail shop selling sex toys, pornography, lingerie, and related products.
The euphemism adult signals sexual content while maintaining a veneer of respectability: There's an adult store in that strip mall.
Also called a sex shop or adult bookstore, though the latter originally emphasized printed material.
- sex shopRetailer of intimate products
- red light districtZone for commercial sex work
- lingerieWomen's fine intimate apparel
- vibratorDevice producing oscillations
- marital aidsDevices enhancing sexual pleasure
erotica · romance section · novelty · novelty items · XXX · pleasure · intimate · toys · boutique · discreet · plain brown wrapper · fetish · leather · lubricant · fantasy · neon · backroom · back room
- vice densbrothel, opium den, speakeasy, gambling den, crack house
- roadsidehighway, rest stop, interstate, rest area, turnpike
- forbidden placesno-go zone, no-go area, restricted area, restricted zone, black site