If you have one of those places with peep show booths where you live . I understand they hire people to mop out the booths after customers have finished using them.
. The 24 hour sex clubs and gay bath houses also hire people to do a similar job . This will give you some idea about it .
The Dead-End Job
Inside the Peep Hole with Brian Meador.
BY STEPHEN MARC BEAUDOIN
It was the doorknob butt-plug incident that clenched it—Brian Meador realized how lucky he was to have what he considers a "hilarious job."
Working as the graveyard-shift janitor in a porn store for the past nine years, Meador—perhaps not surprisingly—has stories of coked-out, hella-horny customers he could spin out for days.
"Most of them aren't classified as amusing," though, says Meador, 33. "Most are classified as disgusting."
But the short version of the doorknob butt-plug incident is this: A co-worker of Meador's was making the arcade rounds, pounding on doors to remind stingy customers to drop another dollar in the video machines.
At one door, the co-worker couldn't get an answer from the locked-in customer, or an inch of movement from the doorknob. In a heated moment, the co-worker yanked on the knob so hard it popped out of its door socket...and, it turns out, from the overenthusiastic customer's rear.
In his nine years working midnight to 8 am at the Portland sex shop and video arcade Peep Hole (709 SE 122nd Ave.), Meador's seen that and much more: All types and persuasions, as well as a parade of uniforms, creep into the store's well-used "video arcade" booths.
He rattles off a wide-ranging list: "Police officers, sheriff deputies, FBI, construction workers, TriMet workers, electricians, gays, straights, trannies, grannies, you name it."
In a city long rumored to offer more adult sex stores per capita than any other in the country, you'd think tracking down an enthusiastic porn-store janitor for an interview would be as easy as spotting a john on Southwest Stark Street.
No sir.
Of the dozen porn shops this reporter called, only three would even consider the request. And two pulled out after pressing for further story details.
And so affable Brian Meador—who once won free movie tickets to see "some action movie" by calling into a radio show to proclaim his pride at holding one of the "most disgusting jobs in Portland"—was the lone contender. It would be interesting to see if he held up to one West Burnside porn-store clerk's assessment of the job in question: "You've gotta be damn kooky to wipe up semen all night!"
Since moving from Eugene to Portland almost 20 years ago, Meador followed an interesting path to his current job that pays $10.50 an hour.
He spent two years in the military as an aviations electronics technician, repairing electronics for helicopters and other Army equipment. On Meador's return home to Portland from his stint overseas in Japan, his dad kicked him out of the house.
Lacking a job or a home, Meador spent the next four years living on Portland's streets. Then, in the fall of 1998, a job opportunity came to him.
"A friend of mine used to work [at the Peep Hole] and said there was a job opening," he says. "At the time, I was homeless." With little workplace experience after six years of life in the military or on the streets, Meador welcomed the opportunity.
"It's good people, decent pay, and the benefits are better than most places," he claims.
And, as he ticks off a list of benefits enviable to most of Portland's working class, he may be right.
His job at the Peep Hole includes a 401(k) plan, full medical and dental insurance coverage, two weeks of paid vacation each year, free round-trip airfare to anywhere in the U.S. for every year and a half of work, and other sexy benefits, like free porn-movie rentals and 25 percent off nonsale porn-store merch.
But nine years into the late-night cum-mopping gig, Meador—who identifies himself as straight and unhitched—says he's not finding himself as turned on by the sexuality of his post. He claims he hasn't rented a porn movie from his store since 2001.
"Working at a porn shop for nine years, yeah, it does mess with your sex drive a bit.... After a bit, even porn gets boring!" he says, but in the next breath giggles about some of his favorite porn-parody movie titles, like Whore of the Rings.
Outside his 30-odd hours a week at the Peep Hole, Meador usually retreats to his own Hobbit hole, "sitting at home and playing video games," he says. "Every now and then I go out with friends for coffee to Tik Tok on Southeast 82nd, and for decent food I go to Cleary's."
Meador's not a beer guy, but he does enjoy a good shot or two of 190-proof Everclear: "It's a great way to wake up."
To dissers of those who punch the clock on the porn-store circuit, Meador is dismissive: "If they think my job is that bad, whatever."
And besides, he says, it's not like he's working with filthy, snot-nosed kids. "This building's cleaner than working for the public school district, I'll tell ya that."
