Phew!
I had some trepidation in posting about this matter since I thought it would be perceived as "nanny statism" (especially considering my recent sign on date marks me as a clueless n00b here on FR). It is gratifying to realize that quite a few others agree that the XXX businesses, smut shops and stripper bars are an embarrassment to our great state. Yes such places are indeed legal and an unrestrained free market grants them as much right to exist as less tacky businesses.
On a lighter note, Tony Soprano's fictional Bada-Bing club is probably just fine and dandy for Lodi, New Jersey. That's just they way they are in Joisey. But I think we Texans are better than that! :-)
Yes such places are indeed legal and an unrestrained free market grants them as much right to exist as less tacky businesses.
These shops don't embarrass me, as long as they're unobtrusively tucked away in an industrial zone. It's places like the one on the Texas/Oklahoma border that embarrass me.
As a member of The Real World, I understand that humans have their needs, and that they will fulfill them, no matter what artificial laws of men restrain them.
Folks simply need to exercise a little more common sense and discretion about where they do it.