I couldn't begin to count the number of times I've passed by the nearest adult bookstore to my house, and yet I can never remember anyone entering or exiting through the single mirrored glass door. It was a seedy looking place which was actually adjoined to The CandyStore Dance Lounge, which of course is a strip club.
Since I was young I could even remember this place as we would drive by on our way to church and hear the disgust in my mom and dad's voice as they would discuss how they wished the city would do something about removing this "black-eye of our community". As I grew up and became aware of what a strip-club was, I would wonder if my father may have ever gone inside.
I'm a petite attractive female, at least by my own evaluation. If I described myself blindly to someone I would begin with my the physical facts which are:
I'm 5' 6 ½" tall.
112 lbs.
I have a reddish brown thick head of hair, which I usually parted slightly off center. It's long enough to fall against my shoulders and when I bend forward and tilt my head it can reach and tickle my nipples when I'm naked.
The nipples they would tickle are delicate and attached to my 33b-cup size breasts. Depending on time of month and style I either wear a 32 or 34 bra size.
Grey blue eyes.
And growing up I was quite the fem-tomboy, so I have an athletic trim body.
If my mother were still alive she would tell you my best feature is my eyes and my warm wonderful smile.
Sex has sometimes come as a struggle to me. I was raised very conservatively and sheltered from most people and things which might tempt me. Any friends I wished to have outside of school would be screened by my parents and I would either be allowed to keep them as a friend, or told they would be a bad influence on me and restricted from seeing them.
Even with all the safeguards and curfews and precautions taken by my parents I managed to lose my virginity at the age of 18 to a younger more sexually advanced boy while I was a doing a summer camp counseling stint at our church's bible camp. You can imagine my surprise to discover I could do something so horrific, survive, and keep it secret in order to keep my pristine reputation intact.
Losing my virginity did make me want it more, but it didn't make me give it up any easier as I always had that precious reputation to protect. It did make me more frustrated with my desires. I assure you I was able to transfer my frustrations onto any of my dates who made attempts to get intimate with me.
And there it was always lurking in the shadow of the large CandyStore sign posted high enough it could be seen well ahead as I drove down the street. I could hardly pass by without wondering who or what was behind that mirrored door. I knew they had "Adult Books, Videos, and Novelty Toys." I could only imagine what a novelty toy might be. I didn't even know what the legal age might be for a person to enter through that ominous door, but I assumed a person would have to be 21 in order to enter.
It was nearly a month past my 21st birthday and I felt my curiosity had increased over the years and making me more and more curious about the place. I came to the conclusion it was inevitable I was going to get inside and learn what was behind that door. I waited until a Wednesday night when I knew my parents would be attending our church's Wednesday evening bible study.
I borrowed a blonde wig my mother purchased and used once as part of a Halloween costume and dressed in a bright green halter style tee-shirt and white jean style mini-skirt.
No cars were ever parked in the empty spaces in front of the strip club or bookstore. I pulled around back to find an empty space in the crowded lot. I sat in the car, steadied my nerves, and checked myself and the way the wig fit on my head before stepping out of the car and placing the 3" heels of my shoes on the asphalt. I had never seen the back of the building before and I walked from my car towards the painted metal door which somewhat blended in with the back of the building except for the bold lettering which read:
"EXIT ONLY ENTRANCE IN FRONT"
Even from the distance I was from the building and door I could hear the pounding beat of the music as it reverberated through the door and cinderblock wall.
The music blared as a couple of men exited and I shied away, turning my head so they couldn't see my face and avoided them as I began to walk around the building. I passed the entrance to the strip club and walked directly towards the mystery behind the mirrored door. I was anxious to get out of the view of cars which drove by and pulled quickly on the metal door handle, but the door was frozen closed. I saw the lettering which was nearly faded to obscurity:
"Entrance inside the CandyStore"
The mystery of why I'd never seen anyone enter or exit was finally solved, but I knew I would have to find a greater courage to enter the strip club in order to get inside the bookstore.
I had reversed my direction and two men were approaching me and the club entrance from the parking lot as I approached. They arrived at the door ahead of me and politely held the door open for me as I approached.
"Coming in?" the man asked.
"Might as well," I replied as I wanted to look calm and collected and went ahead of them into the club.
The music I had heard muffled from the back was now loud enough that the men paying for their admission to the club had to shout in order to be heard by the young buxom tattooed girl taking their cash and returning their change in the form of one-dollar bills.
"How are you doing sweetie," She asked as I approached her after stepping aside and letting the men enter ahead of me.
"What's the charge for the bookstore?" I shouted, trying to insure I would only have to ask once.
"The bookstore is free, and for the ladies so is the club," She said as she leaned forward and I swear I thought I could see her areoles winking from behind the edge of her bikini top at me.
"I'm not interested in the club," I replied.
"You should visit it. You might be surprised," The girl said as she smiled at me and with her eyes checked me out as obviously as any man had ever done. With a quick flick of her hand she produced a ticket stub and after handing it to me pointed towards the ominously large man standing in front of the red velvet curtain which most likely led to the club.