Latex Fetishwear Retailer Gets Booted From Bushwick Space by Religious Landlords

[hrmjustin]

By Raillan Brooks

A commercial retail space yanked Claudia Rothchild's lease just before she, owner of Klawtex, was due to sign it. The owners cited their religious beliefs when rescinding the deal. Claudia Rothschild runs an honest business. So what if she makes her money selling costumes and fetishwear made entirely of latex?

The development she planned to work out of, the Shops at the Loom, bills itself as "an electic mix of local off-beat stores." Sounds an awful lot like "a place to sell tokens of Bushwick to the nouveau riche of Nassau County," but we'll take them on their word.

Rothchild told DNAinfo that "the broker called me and said, 'There seems to be a concern with one of the three owners that your store, and you, are too sexual for the space.'" They must be worried she might track sexual in from outside, or maybe leaves smudges of sexual on the drywall.

The theory put forward over why Rothchild got the boot? She was, uh, rubbing up against the owners' traditional sexual mores. "They believe it's violating their religious beliefs," she claims.

Read more at http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/07/latex_fetishwea.php

[Warpy]

1. Their morbid religious scruples will eventually put them out of business.

A store discreetly selling sexual kink would have generated traffic and they're likely the only ones who would be making enough money to pay the rent on time.

They're free to cut their own throats. However, blaming god seems just a little over the top.

[hrmjustin]

2. Agreed!