Porn "superstores"

[opebo]

Anything that makes porn more redily available makes America a better place.  Now if we could just legalize prostitution.

Interestingly, the amazing popularity of pornography is a symptom of America's prudery and the pathetically unsatisfied state of the average American male.

[opebo]

"Travis, what's the one thing about this country that bugs you the most?"

"I don't know, sir. I don't really follow political issues too closely."

"Oh come on, there must be something."

"Whatever it is you should clean up this city here, because this city here is like an open sewer ya know-it's full of filth and scum. Sometimes I can hardly take it. Whoever becomes the president should just really clean it up, ya know what I mean? Sometimes I get headaches it's so bad... they just never go away, ya know? I think the president should just clean up this whole mess here, should just flush it right down the g toilet."

It is funny that Rudy Guilaiani basically implemented Travis Bickle's plan for New York City.

Sad.. used to be a fun place. 

[opebo]

I have no problem with them. We have several in my city. I almost got a job at one.

I once worked at one (not in St. Louis) - my only other job in grad school besides taxi driving.  It was a fun and hilarious place to work! The regular customers were all very nice and pleasant, though some of the people who just came in 'for a laugh' were a pain.  We never had any problems with the religious nuts - but that was back in the 1990's.

Since then the country has gotten much worse - I occasionally visit a similar store when in St. Louis, and they have had such nut cases running around in the store leaving little religious tracts on the shelves.  Offensive!

[opebo]

Porn stores are not to popular around here. They have many heavy restrictions on them and are only really allowed by law in Tampa itself. Polk county, our neighboring county, porn stores such as these are banned and the ones that were open were shut down. Although I disagree with that extreme measure I also do not believe they should be opened right next door to the local market. Their's a time and place for everything I always say.

Yuck.  I didn't know Florida was that bad.  If I were there I'd move.

As for Missouri, there are porn shops in a few of the less oppressive towns - for example the main college town, Columbia.  St. Louis itself is terribly conservative, and the only porn stores that exsist are 'grandfathered' in from an earlier, less censoring time (heck back in the 1970's there were brothels all over the place!).

[opebo]

I, from personal experience, despise zoning because in my town it puts my house MILES away from the nearest capitalist institution. I need to bike my ass off to see a movie or get some fast food. If it were a feasible distance away from these places, I would bike everywhere and get more exercise.

ZONING HAS MADE ME LETHARGIC!!!!

The way that America is zoned and built is about as poor as is possible to imagine, and is a national tradegy.

[opebo]

We've seen problems arise anyway so let's make things worse. What sense does that make? If you think you're just going to contain prostitutes and the problems of a red light district just to the red light district, you are sadly mistaken. It would only hurt these struggling neighborhoods.

Legal prostitution is a totally different phenomenon than illegal prostitution.  If it were legal, not only drug addicts would go into it - in fact it would be a wonderfully lucrative alterative for good looking working-class women who'd otherwise be condemned to a Walmart level job at $7 an hour.  This would greatly reduce the drug-sales aspect of a red-light district (though of course drugs should be legalized also).

Nearly all the hazards associated with prostitution - such as being attacked or murdered by the customer - are ameliorated by legalization.  The women would have access to legal protection against attacks, coercion, pimping, etc.  Most of what you associate as negative social phenomenons surrounding prostitution are there precisely because it is illegal, not because of anthing intrinsically bad about the job. 

[opebo]

People should be free to make their own decisions about their own lives, so I would agree that drugs and prostitution should be legal. But I would strongly advise that people not get involved with either. Both can destroy your life. A number of pornstars had terrible guilt about it in their later years. Linda Lovelace was the star of Deepthroat, one of the first porn films of the modern era. As she grew older she became very remorseful about her early life. Imagine explaining it to your kids. It was something that plagued her until her death. There are others who feel the same way, even men.

Something I've learned after half a century of life:
If you get your hands dirty you can wash them clean, but if you get your soul dirty you can never wash it clean. Whatever you do is with you for life. You may learn to live with it but you can never be free of it.

Oh please, you (and Linda Lovelace) are falling into the prudish pattern of the puritans, who assume that the worst thing that can happen to a woman is to have sex.  Absurd.

[opebo]

People should be free to make their own decisions about their own lives, so I would agree that drugs and prostitution should be legal. But I would strongly advise that people not get involved with either. Both can destroy your life. A number of pornstars had terrible guilt about it in their later years. Linda Lovelace was the star of Deepthroat, one of the first porn films of the modern era. As she grew older she became very remorseful about her early life. Imagine explaining it to your kids. It was something that plagued her until her death. There are others who feel the same way, even men.

Something I've learned after half a century of life:
If you get your hands dirty you can wash them clean, but if you get your soul dirty you can never wash it clean. Whatever you do is with you for life. You may learn to live with it but you can never be free of it.

Oh please, you (and Linda Lovelace) are falling into the prudish pattern of the puritans, who assume that the worst thing that can happen to a woman is to have sex.  Absurd.

It's not all about sex. Unless you are a heartless pig, you grow out of it and actually become respectable. I know you can't understand this because you have no morals, but those of us who do usually find something better to do with our lives than 24/7 sex.

Who said anything about 24/7?  I only said it wasn't a bad thing for a woman to have sex.  You prudes seem to think its some kind of lifelong shame if a woman deepthroats a guy (referencing Linda Lovelace).  Heck I would think any normal male would want to encourage that kind of thing!

I can see you're a prude by your use of the word 'morals' relating to sex.  What could you possibly be talking about?  Prudery?  Shame?  Self-Denial?  Misogyny?  Anhedonia and/or  Hedonophobia?