Gustavo Turner

The view is phallic inside Doc Johnson's North Hollywood factory.; Credit: Photo by Gustavo Turner

A Sex-Toy Empire Is Thriving in North Hollywood

In 1976, when the Doc Johnson factory opened for business in the same nondescript industrial area of North Hollywood it occupies to this day, its products were not called “sex toys.” The company’s first mail-order catalog, an amazing piece of mid-'70s graphic design in the style of post-hippie bible the......