I love this photograph from Boing Boing (my favorite blog). I know when I'm looking for condoms I head right for the Sour Patch Kids. It's great, though, that this store didn't feel the need to separate out the condoms from everything else. It makes shopping so much easier when you don't have to overcome your fear and ask the surly guy behind the counter for what you need. Even though he's sold a million condoms to people way more interesting that you, it can still be difficult.Working in a sex toy store really shifts your perspective on these things. I remember the days when I would slink into Wal-Mart or a convenience store to buy condoms. I'd often walk out with toothpaste, deodorant and other assorted items (candy?) and the condoms, just so that it wouldn't look like that was all I'd gone in there for. In these stores, condoms are the most "naughty" thing you can buy (unless you know what to do with that massager).At Babeland, condoms are the least "naughty" thing you can buy. Although I'm always happy when people want to come get their safer sex supplies from us, when they only buy condoms, I always find myself hoping that they'll at least glance at the vibrators or get waylaid by the stretchy cock rings near the cash register. But if not, I'll count out their purchase and send them on their way. Maybe next time. It's all about that shift in perspective. In one store - buying condoms makes you freaky. In another, it's the most blase thing imaginable.