Ann Summers: C/D?

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I went into one for the first time yesterday... it kinda struck me how sexless these places really are. There was nothing erotic about it, it was just like being stuck on someone's hen night. It was almost as if the whole shop is aimed at those who are scared of actual sexuality, and need to reduce everything down to a Carry On kinda level... is this a uniquely British trait?

Plus the instore radio played "Switch", which may be the least arousing song ever.

So, yeah, Rampant Rabbit Supremes, edible candy thongs, and sexxxxy nun outfits: C/D?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Dud. The Miss Selfridge of sex.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Never been in one.

But probably wouldn't like one, as IMHO, sex shops tend to bear as much relation to sexy as comedians do to funny.

― Lady Totteringby-Gently (kate), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

We went in once, together. I'd just bought a 10ft curtainrail, so Dawn knew where I was in the shop by looking over a rail. It was quite surreal for that reason.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Everything in there looks a bit cheap'n'nasty to my mind.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Even me with a curtain rail?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

"...it kinda struck me how sexless these places really are. There was nothing erotic about it..."

to be fair, they are shops where you might buy stuff. they don't have to be sexy as locations. in the same way that hmv isn't all that rockin' an establishment.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Well, I've never seen you in any of the Ann Summers shops I've been in. Or your curtain rail.

(xpost)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

What is this, a sex shop chain? When I was in college, there was a local band called Anne Summers that used to always come play on campus.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Dud. Commodification of sex = v. unsexy. Also, it all feels so contrived. Yuk. I want my porn movie sex to be spontaneous.

― Le Marquis de Salade (noodle vague), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

clothes are often desgined and retailed with sexiness in mind, noodle, aren't they?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Even me with a curtain rail?

I'm trying not to misinterpret this.

― Nathalie is in Da Base II Dark (stevie nixed), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

xpost

yeah, I know. What Dom said about "Carry On" was more OTM. I just find the whole naughty lingerie thing a bit yawnsome and contrived, when it's not downright tacky yucksville. I guess it's like wanting to see a movie without going into every tedious detail of how the thing was made.

― Le Marquis de Salade (noodle vague), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

getting specific, the idea of 'crotchless panties' (unsexy words) has never appealled.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

They really are the most horrendous looking things in the whole world aren't they? Especially since the episode of "Sid the Sexist" years ago where he got them for his mum for Xmas by mistake.

― Le Marquis de Salade (noodle vague), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Crotch is just an ugly word, not matter how you ... errr... slice it.

― Lady Totteringby-Gently (kate), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

It strange that they're defined by what they lack. Shorts aren't called "legless trousers".

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

n/a, it is a UK-based high street sex shop chain, yes.

My darling describes the clothing they sell there as "shaftwear". Once or twice we look in, because some item of lingerie in the window looks OK, but when you examine it, it's always a bit nasty & scratcy looking, and very expensive. I don't suppose you're supposed to wear it for very long though are you.

For nice bras, knicks etc in the UK, this place is much better:

http://www.elingerie.uk.net/

Though obv they dont sell rabbit ears or any of that.

I think the basic concept of a high street sex shop that is OK to go into, and that isn't full of the dirty mac brigade is a fine idea. I don't think ann summers really makes it, though.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Having a high street sex shop that ordinary women and teenage girls can and do go in is just an indisputably great idea. So what if it's full of tack? It's also full of cheap vibrators. 1 in 3 women in the UK now own them and that is almost entirely the achievement of Ann Summers. They sell 2 million a year! Someone should really calculate how many million extra orgasms AS are responsible for.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

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