MANASSAS, Va. — from www2.insidenova.com — Kristina Skokan said the only thing rated “X” in KK’s Temptations on Battle Street will perhaps be the sizes on some of the lingerie they’ll sell.

Kristina Skokan and her mother Kim Skokan are planning to open the adult novelty store in Manassas next month.

The store, though it has yet to open, has been described by some as a porn shop and has caused an uproar that led to a special meeting of the Manassas City Council last week, where hundreds decried the it’s eventual opening.

Kim Skokan, 40, doesn’t like it when people accuse her of selling porn.

“We sell all ranges of lingerie, all different sizes along with comfortable underwear and pajamas,” she said.

The store will also have vibrators and adult novelties and adult DVDs for sale along with the lingerie, Skokan said.

“It bothers us that people call us a sex shop or a porn shop. We’re not going to be hard-core,” she said. “We’re very much for women feeling beautiful and sexy.”

Kim Skokan said she and Kristina, 20, decided to go into business after some success with home sales of products that include lotions, candles, girls-night-out games, whips, plates, napkins, invitations, bridal nightwear, bubble bath and garter belts.

They were doing four to five house parties per week and after six or seven months decided to open a store.

“There’s a demand,” said Kim Skokan, who wears a Saint Christopher medal and is a member of Saint Andrew the Apostle in Clifton.

The Skokans chose Old Town Manassas after looking at several locations elsewhere.

They found what they were in search of on Battle Street.

“This is what we really wanted. It was a boutique feel. It felt cozy. There was a dressing room. It was like, ‘This is boutique. This is us,’” Kim Skokan said.

The complaints against KK’s Temptations have been that the store will bring an undesirable element to the town and that children will be subjected to things their parents don’t want them to see.

Skokan said that children under 18 will be prohibited from entering the store and if a child happens to walk in, the only thing they’ll see from the front of the store will be lingerie.

“Lingerie. That’s what you’re going to see,” she said.

As for the unwanted element, Kim Skokan said she didn’t think those who frequent other adult stores in the area will be attracted to her store.

“I don’t think that many sketchy men are going to be coming into a boutique that has fake eyelashes and wigs, women’s shoes and women’s pajamas and women’s G-strings,” said Kim Skokan, who is currently a real estate agent.

Skokan said she and her daughter were shocked at the reaction they’ve gotten for wanting to open a store they call a “boutique and women’s shop.”

Kim Skokan said people drew conclusions from the sign they put in front of their store and said the reaction has been “nuts.” The sign says “Adult DVDs, Lotions, Lingerie & More.”

“They got upset because they jumped to assumptions. When the sign went up everyone freaked out,” she said. “What everyone is making it out to be and what we have envisioned — two totally different things.”

“I don’t think either of us were really prepared for this,” said Kristina Skokan, a student a student at Northern Virginia Community College.

The Skokans don’t want to be “judged or condemned beforehand.” They want people to get to know them.

“No one ever took the time to find out who we were,” Kim Skokan said “No one knew we were women. No one knew we were mother and daughter.”

Kim Skokan is particularly upset that people have accused her and her daughter of being unneighborly.

Kim Skokan said she didn’t think that was true.

She said that judging from the reaction so far, the store opening will draw some attention.

They were initially going to open on the weekend of the Fall Jubilee, but decided against that date, Kim Skokan said.

“We’re not going to take away from the festival. We don’t want to take away from the town,”she said.

Kristina Skokan said the store has gotten support from some quarters and people have come to shop even though the store isn’t open yet. They haven’t heard personally from people opposed to the store.

“The only people that have had the courage to come in and talk to us are the people that say ‘We’re so happy that you’re here,’” Kristina Skokan said.

Still, they don’t think they could change anyone’s feelings about KK’s Temptations.

“Unless I said to those people, ‘I’m not coming,’ nothing, nothing was going to change their minds,” Kim Skokan said. “We’re here. We’re staying.”