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My first trips to a sex store were uninspiring:

#1 Highschool- Complicated and large vibrators for sale in a tourist shop near Union Square in San Francisco, that was confusing to a 15 year old. Especially since they forgot to mention the clitoris in sex-ed.

#2 A few years later- A planned trip to Good Vibrations, a Pre-Babeland sex positive store- I got a stress related case of the chicken outs and didn't go. What was I so afraid of?

#3 Farther down the road- A gay men's sex shop. I accidentally stepped backwards into a dildo the size of a traffic cone and fell on my ass. Went home with the smallest dildo in the shop. That thing was big. Way too big.

The themes- Confusion, Fear, and Just Not For Me-ness.

The fear part I had to deal with on my own, but I hope if you got in the door of a Babeland store, we were able to help with any confusion, making you feel welcome, and hopefully quelling that nervousness if you had any-

What was your first trip to Babeland Like?

Answer here and I will pick a few of the respondents to win prizes-

We have a Cobra Libre (great male mastubation toy) and a Jimmyjane Form 2 to give away (let me know which you want)

We'll draw a winner at random on Sept 9th.