The numbers of strip clubs and adult stores along the interstate highways go up as you travel south.

I travel from Cleveland to Florida a few times each year and once you reach West Virginia, you start seeing the stores and clubs.

And Hooters is a family restaurant in the South.

During my time as a passenger, I entertained myself by counting the religious billboards and the strip club billboards. Strip clubs won by a 2 to 1 margin.

I occasionally go back there to visit relatives. Drive north from Atlanta on I-85. We may be talking about the same route, in different directions.

A fun story I heard about the billboards around the GA/SC border: for years, some residents up there have been trying to pass zoning laws. For one reason, so that your neighbor can't fill his yard with junk cars and rusty old refrigerators for the kids to play in. Like, for example, the asshole who lives right beside my Mom.

Those laws are defeated every time, by people who start yowling that zoning laws are un-American and a foot in the door for a Communist takeover of the rural south, etc.

So the strip clubs start putting up those huge billboards alongside the Interstate. Immediately the local churches/busybodies start clamoring for them to be removed.

Response from the local legal establishment (my interpretation, anyway): "Well, yeah, maybe we could do that if we had zoning laws. But since you refuse to pass those kinds of laws, you'll just have to live with the billboards."

It really stinks when regulations don't go the way you want them to. "I don't want no big government (except when it benefits me)."

Breeds interest. Hypocrites. If sex could be normalized it would take half the kink out of it.

And I'm not talking about that religious thingy here.

We know that because of a video-store owner named...uh...Larry Peterman.

Back in 2000, a local prosecutor was apparently having a slow day and went after Mr. Peterman. Peterman's stores mostly rented regular videos, with a separate "adults only" section for the X-rated stuff.

Peterman's defense attorney (a devout Mormon himself) obtained a list of adult movies available in local hotels (like the Mormon-owned Marriotts.) He also got local cable/satellite records on the number of pron subscribers. Which turned out to be large.

The jury was only out 45 minutes and came back with a verdict of "Not Guilty."

Here's the whole story from the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/23/us/erotica-special-report-technology-sent-wall-street-into-market-for-pornography.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

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It just goes to show the more Righteously charged overt message has a an equal and opposite Covert behaviour. Maybe its Newtons third law " To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction" expressed in human nature.