Baptiste Coulmont is a sociologist, professor at the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay. He is the author of “Sex-shops: A French History”, published by Dilecta in 2007.
Despite a sharp increase in the number of stores in Paris, sex shops are disappearing in the city. Coulmont: “There was no golden age”: from May 68 to the present day, the impossible normalization of sex shops in France.