I don't know why I decided when I was around 19 years old to go visit one of the old porn/peep show shops in Times Square with my lesbian and gay male friend, but I did. It had to have been 1994 or 95, and maybe we were seeing the writing on the wall even then, the demise of the old Times Square to make way for the Disneyland it is now. Maybe we decided we needed to see one of those places because we knew it was a dying thing, a soon-to-be relic of the past that no one really wants to reminisce about or remember. Maybe we wanted to be a part of that history.

I doubt it really was any of that, but it sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Knowing myself the way that I do, I'd bet it just sounded like a good idea at the time.

Anyway, for whatever reason David, Jessica, and...

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