Step Right Up
Beijing’s Bang Bang Peace and Happiness Health Center is the first of 517 sex shops in China to be awarded a license to operate under new regulations issued by the government. Offering such wonders as the “Dream” — an electric banana ($55, batteries included) — Bang Bang attracts about 600 customers per day. One popular item, a penis enlarger “for men and women,” sells for $25. (RC/Reuters) ...Kind of a high price for a magnifying glass, isn’t it?Author’s Note: A couple of readers wrote to complain the magnifying glass crack was “racist” because it implied the Chinese had small genitalia. But hey: I’m not the one who brought up penis enlargement! And anyway, who couldn’t be charmed by a penis enlarger billed as ”for men and women”?!
In 2014, my tagline came true, reports a story in the Malaysian Star — see https://web.archive.org/web/20140603153721/http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/06/03/Man-buys-penis-enlarger-gets-magnifying-glass/. Hard to say for sure, but I may have inspired a scammer.
Original Publication Date: 11 August 1996
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 3.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 3.
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