Owner
Forbidden Fruit
Terri Lynn Raridon aka Lynn earned her BFA in dance from the University of Texas in 1983. Lynn is the owner and operator of iconic and award winning local business Forbidden Fruit, Austin's Original Erotic Boutique. Since 1981, Forbidden Fruit has been a pioneer in expanding the boundaries of adult oriented, intimacy enhancing products and their acceptance in the wider marketplace/society, and doing it all under the cloud of Texas's archaic obscenity laws. Lynn began working at Forbidden Fruit in 1982 and purchased the company in 1987. Under her direction, the store has flourished into a community resource, offering educational outreach and workshops since 1995 in addition to information about/access to the latest adult products. Currently, Lynn directs most of her talents to adult oriented event production and serves as Director and Producer of the Texas Burlesquefest ( 2008-present) Extravagasm Fantasy Ball ( 2002-present) and Co-producer and Talent coordinator for The Austin Zombie Ball (2011). Lynn has been a licensed wildlife rehabilitator for the State of Texas and a Director of local non-profit, Bill Hicks Foundation for Wildlife since 1998. Lynn is also an adjunct faculty member at Austin Community College for 23 years and a blissfully married mother of one.