Ah, the Lion's Den! Many's the night I've ... uh... driven by there.
Add Upton, KY (pop. 750) to the list too.
In Tacoma, the Castle super store (porn) at first had a giant balloon condom flying from their roof. After an uproar, they removed it.
Yep, after a full day of groping a cow to turn a calf the right way or clearing an intestinal blockage theres nothing we like better than to sit back and watch porn...
Ping.
Back in the early 80's when VCR's were new and videos cost $60.00 there were plenty of Mom and Pop video rental stores that sprang up. But as the price of videos dropped and the industry consolidated into huge chains with which the Mom and Pop stores could not compete in variety, Mom and Pop video rental stores stayed alive by expanding their porn areas, by jumping into the market Blockbuster didn't want.
Apparently what we are seeing is the Blockbusterization of porn distribution which will finish the Mom and Pop video rental store alongside the local hardware store, the local book store, the local pharmacy, etc.
" near the cows and hay bales of Dickinson County.
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That prospect doesn't scare many adult-store owners. "
The prospect of being near cows shouldn't scare adult-store owners. Sheep, OTOH....
This is depressing.
"A truck driver searches thousands of DVDs for a pornographic movie. "
Well, since all of them are pornographic in that store, he shouldn't take long. Sheesh! What has happened to the English language in newspapers?
Ping.
Don't forget the newest one in Little Rock that opened up last month, the Clinton Liebrary and Adult Bookstore.
Regarding which: as a chemist who once had to tour a sex toy factory "in the line of duty", let me warn my Red Zone comrades: the sex toy industry has no safety standards whatsoever, and some of those devices leach high levels of toxic plasticizers into the body. The more flexible the item, the greater the danger (other than medical grade implantable silicone). These leaching additives can result in hormone disruption, harm to a fetus (even years later), sterility, and heaven knows what else. Materials which were taken out of childrens' chewable toys (pacifiers, teething rings, etc) years ago, are still used without restriction in adult toys, so watch out!
If such a device is labeled "for novelty purposes only", you can be SURE that it isn't safe, the manufacturer KNOWS it, and has added the "novelty purposes" clause in order to insulate himself against lawsuits due to the toxicity of the materials he's using ("Your Honor, I sold it as a novelty; I didn't know she'd actually.... Case dismissed).
On the way to work every day I pass an adult "Video Arcade" and "store". Now, I am passing this place at about 6:45 a.m.
Two or three days a week there are several cars in the parking lot (one car, the clerk's I guess, is always there).
I am amazed at the sheer energy these people must have to take in "Hot Love Slave" before 7 a.m. Where do you go from there? No - I don't want to know. It would lead to cow groping or something.
Get out of rural areas as fast as you can.
This is the logical result of Free Enterprise meeting Free Speech. You gotta take the bad with the good, people.