After a few years of working in a sex store you stop being surprised by people and their desires. It doesn't take that long to reach the point where you understand on a basic level that we're all different and all a bit weird and that we're also all a bit ashamed of our weirdness and hide it from others.

But there were other things that were surprising. Realizations that have more to do with society than with individuals. One of them has to do with mother's day. Mother's Day wasn't the bigge...