For women, by women: An Istanbul Sex Shop | Roads & Kingdoms

There to greet me on the second floor was a middle-aged woman wearing a fluffy lavender sweater, a colorful butterfly pin and pearls. I’m not sure what I expected the female owner of a Turkish sex shop to look like but I had not been expecting what I got: someone who resembled my mother. She told me her first name is Reyhan, but wouldn’t say her last name.