Preservatería
April 10, 2008
It may look like a British phone box but it is, in fact, una preservatería, or una tienda de preservativos. No, no, nothing to do with ‘e’ numbers and chemical dyes – that would be conservativos, sorry, I mean conservantes (what a minefield!). What we are talking about here is a ‘condom shop’, a sort of sexy sweetie shop full of multi-coloured, multi-flavoured, multi-textured preservativos or condones. Spotted in Málaga.
April 10, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Oh wow, this is fantastic. There used to be one in the old quarter of Bcn – maybe it’s still there – and the condoms were pegged up on chords outside, flapping in the breeze! A friend of mine had to go past it every day when he took his kids to school, and they pestered him with questions.