I saw a piece in the Courier Journal, a local Brooklyn paper that covers the Park Slope neighborhood, called “Sex in the City of Brooklyn,” with the subtitle “New Babeland debuts in Bergen Street.” It is a new high-end sex shop, and there was a photograph showing pictures of sex objects hung all over the wall.
Oh, my God, I thought, can it be true? I know that Park Slope has a good number of young professional people with kids and they appear to be a sophisticated crowd. But even so, would such a geeky, with-it group go into a store that sells sex objects for children? You see, I was reading the word “babe” in “babeland” to mean small girls. I thought, What are we coming to?
Reading on, I realized the word babe was being applied to grown women. After the initial shock, I’m not mollified to know it applies to women. What, in heaven’s name, are they looking for?
Sex is sex.
