Inside Manassas' classiest sex shop (via the City of Manassas)

This fall, the city of Manassas set out to justify increased regulations on the town's sexually-oriented businesses—including the hotly-contested new lingerie and toy shop KK's Temptations. So Manassas commissioned a report to investigate the potential "secondary effects" of smut on the city's crime rate, property values, and image. The resulting publication would make any anti-porn crusader cringe—the report, published on the city's own website, contains lengthy ruminations on "glory holes," "sperm samples," and "discernibly turgid" male genitalia. Ten bizarre sexual insights included in the report:

On the limitations of banning adult-oriented businesses: "any broad limitation on any business with any “adult-oriented” materials or activities would ultimately apply to every bookstore, every movie rental store, every news dealer and, arguably, a variety of other merchants, such as Victoria?s Secret, which trades on the fringes of this market in some of the nation?s toniest malls. Although those who would like to see such materials and activities eliminated completely from a community, the fact remains that there are technically X-rated scenes in major works of literature, and brief nudity and sexual activity in Academy-award-winning motion pictures."

On Manassas establishment  Fantasy Fashio, Night and Day Erotic Attire, and its apparently puzzling collection of women's apparel in men's sizes: "This is an odd store. It has a lot of female lingerie and other attire, including shoes–much of it in unusually large sizes. It adds to that a small quantity of sexually oriented media, a few sex toys and similar devices, and a lot of lotions, cards and gag gifts."

On the reluctance of strip club patrons to report crimes to the police: "The author sometimes asks participants in training sessions, 'If your cell phone was stolen at Target, would you report the theft?' 'If the same phone were stolen at a strip club, would you report the theft?' Many people who say 'yes' to the first question demur to the second."

On why people don't like to live near sexually-oriented businesses: "Reasons given included such things as 'trashy,' 'trashy store front,' 'lowers property value,' 'draws bad crowd,' 'draws unsavory people,' or 'bad influence on children.' A small number of respondents cited the content of the materials handled by the businesses."

On glory holes: "A glory hole is simply a round hole of two to six inches in diameter in the side wall of the booth through which parts of the anatomy may be placed. They are invariably featured in booths which show films with a homosexual theme. When two men are occupying adjacent booths an invitation to engage in oral sex or manual stimulation may be expressed in a number of ways by signals made at the holes."

On the risk of bodily fluid: "A study in Tucson found sperm samples on the floors and walls of almost all video-viewing booths inspected."

On a model Manassas sex shop: "On the author's visits, that store [Manassas sex shop MVC Couple's Boutique] was clean, brightly-lighted, and appointed and merchandised as well as many mall stores. Managers on duty during two visits were alert to activities around them. The combination of clean premises, good lighting and good management go a long way toward discouraging criminal activities–and driving away people likely to engage in them. Part of the purpose of local regulations of sexually oriented businesses is to require or encourage such practices."

On products considered 'sexually-oriented': "sexually oriented media; lingerie; leather goods marketed or presented in a context to suggest their use for sadomasochistic practices . . . sexually-oriented toys or novelties."

On unacceptable anatomical areas: "less than completely and opaquely covered: human genitals, pubic region, buttock and female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola; and human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered."

On "adult modeling": "The Prince William County ordinance includes 'adult model studio; among the types of uses that are allowed under its permit system. A Georgia court, however, has upheld a local ordinance that banned 'one-on-one activity between customers and employees where the employees display their bodies in order to excite customers sexually,' in a challenge brought by a lingerie modeling studio. There is no reason to allow such modeling studios or 'adult photography studios' which are allowed in some communities.