Today, Adam & Eve is the nation’s preeminent provider of pleasure products, with a broad range of “sex positive” items, including sex toys, vibrators, lingerie, and, yes, condoms. What began as his master’s thesis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1969 – the selling of condoms by mail – quickly evolved into the nation’s number one adult products company that is known today as Adam & Eve.Įxperience the interactive Multichannel News Release here: 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Adam & Eve founder Phil Harvey never intended to create America’s largest adult toy empire. A tidbit for the day.Adam & Eve Celebrates 50 Years of Satisfaction In times of prosperity they don't do as well. thus not so much family activity going on.īTW, in economic down turns, adult business like A&E thrive. Industrial and business zones tend not to be neighborhoods. not your neighborhood downtown or neighborhoods at all. but when I think of less family friendly. I don't know if Durham has those areas left or not. Again, not many families live in an active warehouse district (not one converted to lofts) or an industrial area. Also any industrial area of the city fits that bill. And as far as areas of Durham that are less family friendly, I would say parts of RTP fits that bill. They would get a whole lot more business from locals who don't want "nosy neighbor nate" seeing their car parked at the A&E.Īnd while I don't protest the store, I don't have an issue w/ people starting a petition against it either. And BTW, I'm really suprised that A&E has not learned that the parking should be discretly in the back. Cherry Pie is my favorite." I found a very tackful way around this conversation as I'm sure other parents will find when A&E opens.Īs long as the more explicit items are kept out of the display windows in the front of the store, I think we in South Durham will be just fine.
"The one with the sign that says Cherry Pie. "Mom, we should stop at that place and buy a pie?" Which place, honey.
I have young children who are curious too. Suburban mom's & dad's need a little fun too. And in this case, my only issue with the location of the A&E store is I don't think their parking lot is big enough. Not all of us down here (including some of my friends and neighbors) fit that mold. I'm one of those south durham parents that so often gets sterotyped by the rest of the city.
There are some protest signers, too, with comments like "bring it on! orgasms are good for the family" and "You wouldn't have your family without sex," nestled against country-song-themed thoughts like (we're not making this up) "You have to stand for something or you'll fall for anything - let's stand for values." Misplaced values and a pervasive cultural narcissism." Rooney, a passionate advocate against what she notes to be poor development practices and over-rapid growth in South Durham, missed the rhetorical angle of one David Cosentino, who notes, "Tearing down trees is a sin the morality of placing a sex shop in a M.A.," who notes, "I think the current location is best for this type of store and shouldn't be at the newly proposed site." (Our question here at BCR: just what part of the city might that be? Whatever you think about the proposed location, the idea that South Durham is "for families" in a way the rest of Durham isn't is akin to one of those laughable protect-my-little ones themes you usually hear from Wake County neighborhood school advocates.)Īpparently the current South Square location doesn't meet the family-oriented test of commentor "Ms. The comments in the online petition - whose first signer was noted South Durham advocate Melissa Rooney - describe the area surrounding the proposed site as a "family and church area " some suggest the store should be banned anywhere in the Bull City, while others say that the store should simply find another, less family-oriented part of the city to operate in. Such mall-district locations seem like nothing new for the Hillsborough based retail and catalog firm, whose Raleigh store is located just up the street from the Crabtree Valley Mall in a respectable restaurant and retail district of the city. The online protest against Adam & Eve opening an adult-themed store near the Streets of Southpoint continues to draw more signatures, with the N&O now following up with a new story on the matter.Įlected officials have noted that they are powerless to block this retail business, which can operate by right at the location at the corner of NC 54 and Fayetteville.Īn Adam & Eve shop is currently located right near the old South Square mall along 15-501 and will relocate to this new site when open.
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