Bus Tour Too Much Sex, Too Little City

Trip down memory lane is one Vanity Fair scribe would like to forget
By Rebecca Smith Hurd,  Newser User
Posted Dec 15, 2008 12:55 PM CST
Bus Tour Too Much Sex , Too Little City
"I can%u2019t imagine anyone here would repeat the trip, or recommend it to a friend," AA Gill writes of a "Sex and the City"-themed bus tour of New York   (AP Photo)

Carrie & Co. wouldn’t be caught dead on a bus tour of Manhattan, but the half-day trek to various locations used for Sex and the City—a sex shop, the Meatpacking District, the Magnolia Bakery—has become the guilty secret of misguided fans looking to relive scenes from the HBO show and movie, A. A. Gill writes in Vanity Fair.

“Buying a sex aid because some actress has faked an orgasm on TV with it is evidence that there’s more wrong with your social life than can be fixed by a dildo,” Gill notes after staring down a pile of Rabbit vibrators. The mostly Plain Janes on the tour are missing the point, Gill says. “The storyville they’re looking for doesn’t exist and never did.” (More Sex and the City stories.)

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