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Batman sex shop closed down after only two days

BATMAN - Anatolia News Agency | 3/3/2010 12:00:00 AM |

A sex shop in the southeastern province of Batman was forced to close after only two days of operation due to reactions from other local shop owners.

S.G., manager of the shop, gave out advertising brochures saying, “Drop by for a healthy sex life,” throughout the city for his shop in the Ziya Gökalp neighborhood. Masum Padir, the local headman, said many people replied to him asking that the shop be closed.

Padir said the shop was rented on the assumption the premises would be a doctor’s office.

“As soon as it opened we learned that the shop was selling sexual material. The shop owners and locals on the street complained about it. We made the necessary warnings since this is against our moral values and social structure. So the shop manager closed down his place,” he said.