Please keep this post up. Can yall give me some tips for my first time at an Adult Book Store or an Arcade? What’s fun to do, how much for the booths, what’s allowed, and what’s the vibe like there? I’m cool with whatever, just want to enjoy myself.
Please keep this post up. Can yall give me some tips for my first time at an Adult Book Store or an Arcade? What’s fun to do, how much for the booths, what’s allowed, and what’s the vibe like there? I’m cool with whatever, just want to enjoy myself.
Can somebody explain to me the terms “adult book store” and “adult arcade”?
What we have here are sex shops that sell mostly toys, sex shops that focus on dvds and magazines, is it that?
And what’s the arcade? Is it what we call “Pornokino” im Germany? A dark room with 6 booths with a TV set a chair and a tissue box? Or do you have sexy arcade cabinets and orgies there?
(Edit: Btw: For NSFW questions there is !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com which also is a nice community to ask such things.)
Adult book store is for the most part an outdated term. There aren’t books, but rather sometimes magazines, and with the advent and accessibility of streaming porn, there are less and less movie rentals.
However, there usually is a decent selection of sex toys and “fetish” wear. I air quoted “fetish”, because it’s often just vanilla stuff like lingerie, stockings, and very mild kink wear.
That’s why for the most part, these days, they’re just referred to under the umbrella of an “adult store”.
Some of these stores also may have attached " arcades". Again air quoted, because they aren’t an arcade in the sense most commonly attributed to the term. There aren’t games, slots, etc. There are however typically booths, some with glory holes between them. You feed a screen money to play pornography, and you can beat your meat alone, or beat your neighbors meat, or any number of combinations of meat beating.
Very rarely, an “arcade” might involve paying money for a window to open, and you watch either a professional entertainer do things, or watch your neighbors do things. This seems a little more rare, though.
There are also adult theaters, which have their own deal going on. They also may include stores and arcades.