NOT WORK SAFE

8/18/2004

Porn Clerk Stories

Filed under: — PornoGil @ 10:00 am

Being a porn clerk can’t be a comfortable thing: You know people are jerking to the videos that you’re putting in a little bag for them. You know their sexual preferences via their choices. You know more about these people than you have any right to.

Here are some great stories about working in regular stores with porn (increasingly rare) or straight up dirty bookstores:

If a customer is going to rent porn, I actually prefer to see a mixed bag of videos - that way all I know about them is that they want porn. Someone comes up with a stack of five videos about people pissing for each other, and suddenly I know a very intimate thing about a relative stranger…

http://www.improvisation.ws/mb/tpcs1.html

[Link via PinkCocktails]

I remember hearing the girl who wrote this doing a great piece (on this very subject) for NPR’s This American Life. I’ll try to dig through the archives and see if I can post it here. You see, we are mixing porn and intellectual discourse. What could be more intelligent than National Public Radio?

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