Best store for sexy gifts
If you want to add some class to your kink, venture to Grand Opening, a woman-owned and female-friendly
store on the upper level of Brookline's Coolidge Corner Arcade. You may feel naughty when you shop here,
but you won't feel dirty. Massage oils line wicker shelves, rows of vibrators and other tools of pleasure
hang on a pastel-painted wall, and there's enough erotic and sexual literature to make one whole side of the
store seem like a library - although we haven't been in many libraries that carry titles like 101 Grrreat
Quickies. The store also offers readings and workshops so you can learn how to use your blindfolds and
handcuffs and whips - oh my!
Walk into Central Square's Hubba Hubba, though, and you'll know you're not in Brookline anymore. Black
leather (and latex and PVC) goods - from corsets and cat suits to whips - line the walls. Owner Susan
Phelps says you're as likely to see frisky Harvard students looking for handcuffs as a sexy lawyer plunking
down $800 to prepare for a naughty evening with his wife. Hubba Hubba also has a huge shoe selection,
including high-heeled boots in men's sizes. The store makes it a policy to have a male and female employee
on hand at all times so that customers will have someone they'll feel comfortable asking, say, the
difference between silicone-based and glycerin-free lubes.
Grand Opening, 318 Harvard Street, Suite 32, Brookline, (617) 731-2626. Hubba Hubba, 534 Mass Ave, Cambridge, (617) 492-9082.
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