The problem is that since the ACLU and Larry Flynt got in front of the SCOTUS, it is now forced upon local communities and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do. Porn is now mandatory, at least in the western states I've lived in. Local communities can say little or nothing. And some states - Oregon, for instance, has just about the most liberal laws (like, practically none) regarding obscenity/sex shows. They just made it legal for "shows" to have actual live sex acts. Suppose a small community wanted to have more local restriction?
Too effing bad, they can't. Somebody with money can go to any little conservative community, buy a building, hire some whores, and set up shop.
What we have now is the antithesis of local control. Thanks to porn producers, the ACLU, and the SCOTUS.
Isn't the answer, though, to fight for a Constitutional return to local control (including the right for localities, not the state, to define obscenity? Otherwise you're conceding their argument that the feds have the legitimate power to define obscenity for all of us, and in the process, selling out the Constitution in the process. I think it's a bad, unprincipled and ultimately futile tactic.
Nonsense. There is a simple, 100% effective, thing people can do -- refuse to patronize the objectionable business.
Of course, that requires one to believe in the favorite economic system of FReepers, rather than that other one favored at Berkeley and the DUmpster.