Your Favorite Porn Store

Snottsdale, Arizona is one fucked up place. They didn't mind Jenna living here, but when she wanted to buy that shitty strip club Babes, the tried to pass laws virtually outlawing porn and strippers.

Neighboring Phoenix is much nicer to smut. Most of the porn stores in Phoenix are in industrial areas where no one cares, stay under the radar and don't make a splash.

My personal favorite is Pleasure World on 40th St. & Washington near Sky Harbor airport. They have a somewhat clean place to buy your smut, but they also keep the "arcade" open with the same disgusting stained machines Reuben Sturman leased them years ago. It also has a "theater" to watch old reels, but it's just too icky to actually sit down and watch something. The place has a mottled history: when the owner died and his wife took over, she stopped paying protection money to Sturman. Depending on who you believe, either Kevin Beech or Mickey Fine sent some thugs to rough the place up, whereupon they bombed the place. Even after Sturman and Mickey Fine were in the pokey, the new owner was indicted on charges of racketeering, money laundering and fraud. The county attorney pressing the case, with whose son I attended high school, fucked the case up, amid allegations that they illegally wiretapped conversations between the owner and her attorney. Ironic that she lived in the Echo Canyon subvidision in Paradise Valley, at the bottom of Camelback Mountain (=caysh). It's pretty much stayed the same for the last decade.

I hope places like this stay around. Porn is getting too comfortable with itself, pretending to "go mainstream" and all. I like the social and physical danger associated with buying porn. No offense to the VOD guys and all, but I think people need to expend a little energy to get their smut. Making smut too easily available has produced things like Stormy Daniels and Eon McKai, and that just can't be allowed to propogate.