The Near North Side used to be filled with shady characters and dubious businesses selling the sorts of things you’d only want to carry home in a very opaque brown-paper wrapping. The dubious businesses? Sex stores, of course.
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But since the neighborhood’s been cleaned up and most of the sex stores have been replaced with high-rise hotels and chain restaurants that cater to tourists—banishing the dirty stuff to the Internet—only a few remain. How do they stay open? (Aside from being willing to sell stuff 24 hours a day?)
Frenchy’s has a less hard-core feel than the first store. When you walk in, you find yourself eye-to-eye with a rack of party games of the pin-the-something-on-something-else variety instead of a sign announcing previews of porn videos for $6.99 for 30 minutes (free for ladies).
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