A woman who changed her gender
She died last week at her home in Manhattan.
Dale Williams, the owner of sex
A friend confirmed to The New York Times that he died last Wednesday.
In early 1970, Williams opened the first sex store to serve women at home, after an awkward interaction with a male salesperson, when she tried to buy Zhen at Macy's.
For 40 years since that decisive encounter, Williams has been working to help women become more comfortable with sexual expression.
Williams, who used to be an actress, advertising director and Army WAC, attended a sex seminar by legendary mentor Betty dosen in her 70 s and she advised her to buy a Hitachi
The magic wand is designed as a personal massager and is available in most department stores, but Dodson says it can also be used as a vibrator.
But when Williams went to Macy's to get the product, she met a 20-
Some male salesmen who made her feel uncomfortable about buying.
What do you want it?
He asked Williams.
I left Macy's that day with my precious, anonymous brown shopping bag in my hand, thinking: Williams wrote about this experience: "Someone really should open a store, A woman can buy something like this there without a child asking what she is going to do with it
The Williams store started with mail.
Delivery only, but a brick later includedand-
Mortar location and website in midtown New York.
Today, the garden in Eve sells vibrators, seasoned condoms and bundles.
Williams's way of selling sex toys has helped it become millions.
Today, there are several chain stores in the dollar industry dedicated to female shoppers.
Williams became a spokesperson for the issue of women's liberation after opening the shop, and was often asked by my newspapers and television programs to express their opinions on the issue of feminism at that time.
Asked about masturbation's 2003 Britney Spears song touch my hand, Williams said: "In the past 50 years, although the medical stigma of masturbation still exists
This is shameful.
Hopefully Britney's honesty and her songs can help women overcome the feeling of embarrassment and instead embrace something so natural.
Williams was born in Manhattan in August 1922 at Dale chetlin, head of the Bronx.
She had a short wartime affair and had a painful abortion before joining the Women's Corps in 1945.
During the war, she performed in the Army Radio station and the WAC musical on the tour.
After the war, she moved to Los Angeles, where she focused on acting, but eventually she returned to New York for advertising.
In 2005, she wrote a memoir called The Garden revolution, detailing the fact that a Jewish girl from the Bronx eventually owned a sex toy store.
Williams did not leave close relatives.