Spank the Monkey

This store is pretty cool — this time around I discovered the 2^nd floor which is a sex store that has everything!

Gotta check it out — they have really cool stuff!

It’s not
what
you think
Because of the prurient, licentious and rather humorous name, many people expect this to be some kind of whack shack. It’s not, Spank the Monkey is actually a very cool little jewelry store. If you want adult and bizarre «novelties» you have to go to the store next door called Shop Therapy; many people confuse the two establishments. The two stores share the same bizarre, mural covered building but are actually two completely separate entities.
Spank the Monkey is cramped, tiny and usually extremely crowded but they manage to stuff a lot of cool stuff in the one small room. Most of it is behind glass cases but every time I’ve been in here the staff has been very quick to try and show you any piece you want to examine. However at times the diminutive space gets so packed with tourists that you just have to be patient.
Lots of silver bracelets, rings, earrings and necklaces as well as some beads and more exotic items. Some of it is cheap and other stuff will run you some serious money. The variety is what makes it so interesting. This place is all Provincetown.
Stunning amber, jade and turquoise is obvious and the store always had a predilection toward some fascination Egyptian and middle eastern bijouterie. However the last time I was in I noticed some Southwestern American stuff. That’s one of the cool things about this store, you never know what you will find.
So even thought they share the same building don’t make the mistake of mixing Spank the Monkey with the far stranger, funkier and more lascivious Shop Therapy. Despite the name, Spank the Monkey is a cool and traditional jewelry store. At least as traditional as anything with the name Spank the Monkey can be.

Spank the Monkey is possibly my favorite jewelry store in the world, and certainly the best on the Cape. I have to budget for it ever year. It has tons of gorgeous, unique silver jewelry and some gold, too. Just about any symbol you can think of is on a ring in one of those cases. This year I came home with a pair of scarab beetle earrings, a scarab beetle ring that looks like it could have been taken out of a 4,000-year-old tomb, and an eye of Ra ring. (I’m in an Egyptian phase.) I barely resisted the many gorgeous pendants that were 30% off. The staff can be excellent or indifferent, though never bad, and you should be prepared for bored summer help in any retail establishment in P-​town anyway. Prices are excellent for the quality and variety.
I think the other reviewers here are actually talking about Shop Therapy, down the street — that’s the place with the hippie clothes and the incense and the upstairs. Fun, but not Spank the Monkey.

Very «colorful» store.
First floor is full of colorful crap. Handbags, hats, shirts, sunglasses, lighters, knives, concert posters, insense.
Second floor — adults only! Most of the inventory looked… OLD. Yellowed, aged packaging. Some that were OPENED = unsanitary! Some new stuff too but much of it was… YAWN. Been there done that.
Bought some cheap shades here and a postcard.

If Stevie Nicks were to be a store, she would be this one. It pretty much houses all of her wardrobe (scarfs galore) and lots of flowing clothing and jewelry. Could quite possibly smell like her due to the incense section. I assume she smells like patchouli or nag champa which they have in abundance. Up stairs houses «instruments» she could have easily used AFTER the show during her… uhh…“partying phase”. Now, I’m not sure where she stands on things like «the fist» or glow in the dark play things… but they have lots of those too. Always fun to explore the new and exciting sex inventions.
Really though, this store is way too cluttered to shop or find anything. My favorite area is the poster area. They have really cool signs and images which can accessorize any collection. And lets be real, sex shops and head shops are ALWAYS fun to explore. Any trip to P-​Town is not complete with out spankin a lil monkey at this colorful establishment.

Cool art outside, the building is covered with it. Smell the incense and read the bumper stickers as you enter. It is like a step back into the 7o’s. Or at least from little I can dredge out of my mind. Lots of jewelry, funky clothing, postcards, leather, glasses, stuff! Fun to search and peek.
Since they remodelled awhile back it looks much better. And for all you blushing gigglers out there you must go upstairs. A perv’s heaven with all the toys, lubes, videos, smoking paraphenalia, piercing thingies you could want. Just the place to supply a kinky night with your newest grab at the bar. Play safe, use a big condom. Body size. I think they still carry them here…

I love spanking the Monkey, opps I meant «Spank The Monkey»!
It is an informal head shop landmark on the end of the old cape.
It is huge and has everything from feather boas, porno mags, dildos, videos, cherry lube, incense, hats, sunglasses, life sized blow up dolls (men and women), hippy jewelry, tie-​dye tee shirts, rolling papers, and bongs too!
The place is PACKED and filled with stuff that hangs from the ceiling.
I love to stop in here about once a year to look at all the fun decadence.
I found the staff are not been friendly here too much.
As you walk down Commercial st. (East End) you know you are getting close as you can smell the incense burning.