That may be, but your new ads are boring and lifeless. Utterly the opposite of SEX!!!!

Get a clue.

everyones a critic

It doesn't change the fact that it looks like a sales office for new condos

...or maybe cell-phones.

I used to stop and enjoy the old windows. Now, I'm guessing not so much. Even if there's more of a brand being built, there's less incentive to look.

I guess I'm a very, very bad man, because I thought the old hot glue gun & glitter displays were... sloppy. And there was something... unsophisticated about them, and not in a good way. Dildos dressed up in little outfits... it always seemed to be a kind of cutesy, sex-negative denial about what those things were really supposed to be used for. The windows were anti-erotic, IMO.

I don't have a problem with more professional displays. It's boring, corporate-looking displays that are the problem. Maybe the days of the glitter and glue are gone, but do they have to be replaced by sexless posterboard?

It's hard to say how the new window is any more "erotic" then dildos with skirts, Dan. Are the words "hot, steamy, slippery, wet" supposed to make me horny or remind me of a Bon Jovi album? All I'm saying is that it's a slippery slide, Babeland. A slippery slide.

Fuck people, can you all find something off of Capitol Hill to complain about?

Your whining powers are like a massive laser that when pointed can cause an immediate reaction, like forcing one of the Co-founders of Babeland to take time out of her day from providing a safe space for people to comfortably learn about sex (rather than have her shop be about a quick buck and selling porn and poppers) when you could be getting politicians and other significant figure heads of our daily problems to respond and justify their actions.

Instead, you complain about the noise after you move up to Cap Hill, you complain about cigarette butts after you ban our smoking indoors, and you complain about of the few businesses that have been on Capitol Hill and have *stayed here*. Disgusting.

All for DIY art projects but not when you are looking to get off.. I think Rachel & Claire should be applauded for building a successful progressive sex toy business from the missionary position up. So many whiners in that town.. gosh I miss it.

We're all whining because we love the store. If we didn't like it, we wouldn't even notice the displays or the store and wouldn't bother posting about it.

Technically Rachel Venning is correct. Toys in Babeland LLC is a limited liability company, not a corporation. They may have changed their store name but not their registration with the State of Washington. Their record doesn't have a DBA on it, which is odd. http://dor.wa.gov.

Late to the comment game, but I have to say, the new Babeland is cold. Of course I applaud the stability of the business, the ingenuity, and the advancements Babeland has made, but, the new look is a turnoff. Some people may want to call sex what it is, but America is pretty provincial. US society from coast to coast is still prudish and backward. We aren’t Denmark where gay marriage is an everyday occurrence, women are treated as equals, and clothing is optional. This is America, where very human rights are scrutinized and argued over daily. Point is, America is just not that open sexually and we know this. The sex positive playing field is not leveled either. Sexuality has its many battles still. Sex in America is shocking and many people are still made to feel ashamed about it, most of all women.

Babeland is a trailblazer, so maybe the rest of us will have to catch up to its direction, but progress can move at a glacial pace. Obviously, just so much change weaves through the currents of modern life. Personally, I still need the humor in sex sometimes, and the store displays did it for me. It wasn’t necessarily the content of the store display itself, but, the message it conveyed. I didn’t feel ashamed or awkward walking into Babeland, but the new look leaves much to be desired, most of all, a warm welcome. While some scoff at this and are quick to say “deal with your issues” a chorus of us who need to “deal with our issues” will scamper off to find other places where we can focus on what makes us feel good rather than be bogged down by what makes us feel bad. We all need a break sometimes and a store run by sexually open women not being sexual for a man’s sake offered respite for those who were previously alienated.

While I think it is great that a well known writer such as Dan Savage commends Babeland’s new direction and his comments might be the cap on the argument, I am tired of hearing a man’s opinion when it comes to sex.