{mosimage} In the span of three small blocks there are nearly a dozen similar storefronts, filled with slutty mannequins in fishnets and clear-heeled platform shoes, and adorned with names like Liquid Dreams, Bed Behavior and Forplay. They are the famed lingerie boutiques of Hollywood Boulevard, colloquially referred to as “hooker shops” by the tourists and locals who pass by. Some storefronts are new; others have been here for decades, greeting generations of doe-eyed, milk-fed girls fresh off the bus from Bumfuck Nowhere. The plethora of scanty-panty pushers made us wonder: Is L.A. really home to hundreds of strippers, or are these shops nostalgic remnants of the formerly seedy boulevard? Or maybe just tourist traps? We toured the shops... More >>>