"Shall we go shopping before getting dinner, Jack?" Karen asked me. "I found an interesting store." She showed me the place on her phone and it looked like it filled the bill; I had known we wouldn't have much trouble finding a place in this city that had the items Karen had in mind to buy. "Looks good," I said, "let's go."

A half hour later we found ourselves in the Las Vegas Adult Emporium, me with a red plastic shopping basket in hand, and we were like two kids in a candy store. I thought I'd been around the block a few times but I was seeing things I...