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Naughty gifts give Slope a rise

By Ariella Cohen
The Brooklyn Paper

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They gave her what she wanted this Valentine’s Day.

Hallmark may sell Feb. 14 in shades of rose-petal pink, but in Park Slope, blue works, too.

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And one tidy Fifth Avenue sex shop, the Pink Pussycat Boutique, has the sales receipts to show for it.

“It’s been a really good week for edibles,” said Sheba Davis, the manager of the closet-sized erotic store across the street from MS 51 near Sixth Street.

It was the night before Valentine’s Day, the Christmas of sex, and the tall, tattooed saleswoman had just sold a $50 box of Kama Sutra-brand chocolate body paint (marked down from $64.99 on a V-day sale).

“Usually, on a Tuesday I see three people in here — today, we got 20,” she said.

“There were couples, single people, everyone trying to get something a little sensual, a little different,” she said.

This Cupid’s day, the hot items at the pink-walled shop were, as Davis put it, edible: flavored lotions, fruity massage oils and chocolate “sex-ccessories.” A chocolate martini-flavored self-warming lubricant sold briskly, she noted.

There were plenty of options for those seeking to go beyond the cards-and-flowers route — and boy, were people looking.

One couple perused devil-red lingerie, pausing to giggle at the “Love Cuffs.” But they left without buying anything.

Another couple left with the chocolate body paint.

But they took their sex-cessory and sped away without comment.

©2007 Community Newspaper Group

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