Big-time science blogger PZ Myers has a post reminiscing about a type of business known in his youth, but now largely vanished.

Maybe you don’t remember 70s-era porn shops. Maybe you weren’t even born then. But the like of these beasts is something that we’ll not see again. They were beautiful.

Yes they were, in their own strange way. But you’ll have to read further in the post to find out what he was actually looking for. (As a hint, I spent much of my youth looking for the same sort of thing…)