Amsterdam Experience

My three-​star rating here is neutral for a reason; I wasn’t even aware this adult-​only establishment existed until two weeks ago but, hunting down new places to review with a friend for the purposes of reviewing on Unilocal,the two of us — for the purposes of ‘research’, you understand — entered the premises on Hurst Street, which sticks out like a sore thumb with its ‘hello, we’re seedy here’ red-​and-​black exterior.
So, I don’t frequent places like this and, besides trips to the actual Amsterdam where shops like this feel quite quaint amongst all the brothels and sex show venues, I have no experience to compare it to. The shop itself is an eye-​opening plethora of skin vids, phallus-​shaped playthings and all sorts of other (sometimes scary-​looking) sex aids. The member of staff manning the till was quiet and discreet, which I imagine visitors to places like this appreciate, and he didn’t bat an eye lid when my mate and I giggled at a nightmarish-​looking rubber fist.
A back door in the main shop leads through to a cinema, as advertised outside on the shopfront. I wasn’t that committed to my research for this review to test out the cinema and discuss whether its seats were sticky or not, although I’m sure other more specialist sites may give those looking for an erotic cinema-​going experience more of an idea of what to expect.
So, yes — three stars as I wouldn’t want to mark this place down purely for the fact that I’m not its intended audience. Avid sex shop fans may think it’s good or bad but that’s for them to judge — I’m just here to give the opinion of one curious, very baffled young man who feels really vanilla after my trip here.