All sex shops are alike. True? Most of these pictures show the licensed, legal kind, which means there are rules about what they can and cannot put in the windows as well as sell inside. Those who work in this segment of the sex industry occupy an ambiguous status: are they sex workers? Some say they are, some say they are not and some say if a sales assistant in a sex shop wants to think of himself as a sex worker than he is and if she doesn’t, she isn’t.

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