Back in the fall of 2004, when Taboo was still a single-store toddler, a polite VCU Photo and Film student approached me with an idea: he wanted to make a documentary about the shop. At first, I was surprised. Then flattered. Then I wondered if I was too lazy to...
As I followed Alison Miller Barber, owner of Taboo for the last decade, to her office to sit and chat about the effects of technology on her business, we passed aisles of product, arranged by type and fetish—a sexual candy store for adults that has exactly what the...