After your perm sets, Marsha, why don't you go check out the new strap-ons?

A well-meaning, if slightly point-missing, article on women as porn's new entrepreneurs.

The business is attracting women like Alex Reyes, 52, a hairdresser in Austin, Tex., who said she had never bought a sex product — and had watched possibly two pornographic films in her life — but who planned to open an adult store in the fall next to her beauty salon. Ms. Reyes said that as she cut hair she often heard her clients discuss the lingerie, "edible stuff" and the sex toys they used.