See you on the other side! - Eve Bateyġ201 Folsom Street, between Eighth and Ninth Streets Oz (though I'm sure they'd be happy to oblige if you stumbled in), this is where you go when you're ready to head through the sexual looking glass. And let's be clear: This isn't the place to pick up a wacky bachelorette party gift or that "marital aid" you saw on Dr. It's also a great source for medical fetish items, collars, and more practical items like wrist wallets (you gotta put your cash and ID somewhere). Let me begin by saying this this is NOT the place to take your vegan BDSM loving sweetheart, as the store is way more "leather" than "etc." Since 1991, they've been manufacturing and selling "top quality fetish apparel and bondage toys," including restraints, cuffs, and harnesses, fetish garb for men and women, and more crops and bits than you'll find anywhere that isn't a stable. Eve Bateyĩ47 Folsom Street between Sixth and Falmouth Streets This makes it the ideal venue for the multitasker, as smart folks know that being able to combine an errand like lube shopping with a hand job is one of the most prized habits of highly efficient people. Sure, Folsom Gulch has a pretty decent selection of the usual vibrators, cockrings, etc, but it's also proud to be one of the city's "best cruising spots" for gentlemen seeking same, offering all-day passes to their possibly sticky gay video arcade slash hookup joint. Caleb PershanĦ03 Valencia Street between 17th Street and Clarion Alley 1620 Polk Street at Sacramento Educators above all with a staff sexologist, they've also got an Antique Vibrator Museum at their Polk Street location, a blast from the past when such items were sold with vague but suggestive descriptions in mail order catalogs. Joani Blank's first of those was opened in the Mission in 1977 with the goal of being friendly, well-lit, and non-creepy, and Good Vibes, as its known, has lots of those. Anyway, you'll find plenty of items - if not exactly that one - to keep the passion going, spark it in the first place, or just practice a little amour-propre at Good Vibes, who still set the standard for quality, sex-positivity, and safety with their eight locations.
Asked by a stranger how they keep their love aflame, an elderly couple in the movie Annie Hall has a ready answer: "We use a large vibrating egg." Too bad Woody Allen is terrible.