San Diego's Diminishing Erotic Entertainment Supply Just Got Lower.

This review is about Les Girls but it's also about The Body shop, hence the title.

I was admiring the adult coloring book art taped up on the hallway wall board in Les Girls stripclub last night. Hadn't been there in a while and experienced mixed feelings about my visit. I used to venture in there on rare occasions in the late 1980's and up to 1990, and the prices didn't seem to have changed with the economy: $10 door charge; 75-cent soft drinks (in cans); $10 one-song lap dances in the curtained booths and $30 three-song private dances in the rooms in back. The seediness of the decor was refreshingly identical to what I remember, if at the same time a bit depressing. Until 1992 when the large billboard signs were removed from the over roof outside that had the 1960's psychedelic font lettering saying "LOVE-In" this club was a true time capsule of flower power counterculture nostalgia. But all things change eventually.

I've had the urge to revisit this place for a while and stopped by last night around 7:30, but was early as it doesn't open till 9. Les Girls is on the corner of Hancock and Riley in Point Loma, and faces Hancock Street, as it has since it first opened its doors in 1969. Next to it and sharing its parking lot, there's an adult bookstore. I went in to the bookstore to ask them when it opens, suspecting something might be amiss because The Body Shop, a nude juice bar next door on Hancock, looked dark too. The wall racks of the store were more than half empty of merchandise. Usually in a place like this there's all the latest dildos, cock rings, dvds, and other accouterments of fet-life hanging up for customers. But not now. The store looked in the midst of a going out of business sale, without any signs advertising it. I got the opening time for Les Girls from the little Hispanic girl at the counter and then asked her what was going on.