Amid San Francisco’s retail disaster, one man has a enterprise concept he thinks might be wildly profitable: banned books offered by buck-naked our bodies.
That’s what George Davis, a self-proclaimed “physique freedom” activist, pitched on Craigslist whereas on the lookout for a “match, formidable,” feminine chief govt officer to steer his pop-up nudist bookstore within the metropolis’s downtown buying heart, Union Sq., from August to December. The advert was first reported by a Bay Space weblog.
Why does Davis assume the CEO must be a girl?
“It’s simply I’ve been doing this a very long time. It’s as a result of it can work. I notice needing a vulva as an alternative of a penis isn’t what’s proper, however it’s what is going to work,” he mentioned in an interview Thursday.
As for the booksellers, they’ll must be balanced by gender.
“Booksellers will must be sexually balanced out, one to at least one male to feminine, to remove the sexuality. All ladies booksellers could be Hooters with books,” he informed The Occasions.
Stripped to its barest idea, his bookstore would make use of solely nude booksellers and promote solely banned books. Davis believes the shop will cater largely to the LGBTQ+ neighborhood and would attract crowds seeking to ogle and (he hopes) purchase.
“Worldwide vacationers and provincial People, will wish to come. We may have tons of publicity. . . . If this house makes good cash, you may shortly and simply replicate this undertaking in Chicago, NYC, and London,” he wrote within the advert.
Davis, pushing 80 years previous, has been flaunting his determine within the nude in San Francisco for many years. He ran unsuccessfully for San Francisco Board of Supervisors twice and mayor as soon as (he received .45% of the vote and misplaced to Gavin Newsom) and was arrested in 2014 for flouting town’s new anti-public-nudity ordinance. He known as himself a “mini-celebrity” within the advert.
“The Banned Bookstore would carry titles banned each within the US and internationally. The booksellers could be unclothed to show that the human physique and all physique elements are regular and pure,” Davis wrote in his pitch.
He added that the lessor of the Union Sq. website — “assume Nordstrom” — had green-lit the birthday swimsuit idea.
However on Thursday, Davis mentioned that the lessor had pulled out of the deal. He’s now on the lookout for one other 20,000-square-foot house to deal with the bookstore.
“Our pure, unserved, underserved, or desires to be served markets are companies associated to Burning Man, Leather-based, BDSM, Fetish, and LGBT+ with excessive finish merchandise, handcrafts and artwork. Perhaps some leisure house. Assume Burning Man theme camp. Keep in mind, a million individuals attend SF Satisfaction week, 300,000 attend Folsom Road Faire, and 100,000 have been to Burning Man. That is our pure market and scene,” Davis wrote.
Right here’s the advert, if you wish to attain him.
