Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Should the Orland Park store be allowed to carry sexually explicit merchandise if teens are shopping in the mall?
Spencer's Gifts in Orland Square Mall has come under scrutiny recently. Known for its silly cards, gag gifts and novelty items, as well as some sexually explicit products, the store is a favorite among the teen crowd. Following complaints from patrons that resulted in a police seizure of $22,000 in sex-related items, Spencer's was ordered to comply with state statute that required inappropriate materials, or those items intended for a more mature audience, be corralled in an area off-limits to underage patrons. So we wondered: Should Spencer's Gifts, given that it is in a mall frequented by minors, be permitted to carry explicit materials as long as the store is in compliance with state statute? Here's the view from the Patch Moms Council…
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Orland Park police are scheduled to inspect the Orland Square Mall store next week to see if a separated section for explicit materials and sex toys fits a state statute.
Spencer's Gifts is considering two options for rearranging its store to keep sexually explicit merchandise from the view of minors, village staff said on Thursday. The novelty gift shop at Orland Square Mall can either carve out space in the back or ditch the explicit items altogether before a police inspection next week. "We don’t care either way,” Village Manager Paul Grimes said. “They need to come into compliance with state statute.” In December, Orland Park police seized about $22,000 in sex toys, inflatable love dolls, lubricants, gels, sado-masochistic products and sex-themed Christmas items. According to an Illinois statute, the merchandise was considered “harmful materials.” Before the seizure, Orland Park police officers visited…
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Friday, December 10, 2010
Complaints about “sexual aids” and “explicit merchandise” prompt Orland Park cops to clear the mall store's shelves of the products and arrest a 19-year-old clerk.
About $22,000 in "sexually explicit" merchandise, including sex toys and love dolls, was seized from Spencer's Gifts at Orland Square Mall — and a teenage clerk was arrested — after a store manager told police his bosses wouldn't let him hide the wares from minors. Following a mall shopper's complaint to police about seeing "various sexual aids and other sexually explicit merchandise" on display at Spencer's, an Orland Park police officer visited the store on Dec. 1. Inside, the officer saw the sex toys, inflatable love dolls, lubricants, gels, sado-masochistic products and sex-themed Christmas merchandise, according to police. The officer asked a manager on duty if the items could be moved and cordoned off from access to minors, and the …
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Joseph
10:23 pm on Saturday, February 26, 2011
I don't see anybody complaining about the models on Abercrombie and Hollister bags that their teens are probably carrying purchased items in! more ›