[r9etb]

The stock out front is to conceal their true business and represents just another cost of doing business. Without it, they'd be out of business and we've certainly seen enough evidence to support the idea that porn can be quite a lucrative business.

Then why not just open a gay porn shop? We're talking about Austin, after all -- there's plenty of precedent.

Besides, it certainly appears that they never have to spend much on restocking the front, now does it?

The only way we "know" this is because Mr. Lee says so -- and it's highly convenient for him to claim that "nobody" bought anything but porn in that store. Should we believe him? I think not: in order for the store to be able to stock these books, there must be somebody from which to buy them. In the real world, there's apparently a quite lucrative "gay publishing" industry. For Mr. Lee's theory to work, that entire industry would have to be part of the conspiracy.

We definitely agree that "gay culture" is a fraud. Our disagreement is apparently over the motivation for the fraud. I still say that childish rationalization is sufficient to explain it.

[MillerCreek]

I believe there was probably a tad of history involved in the experiences this author wrote, as in, Lobos from a while ago.

But, even still in Austin, it's Texas and I know from my own family experiences that even Austin has it's degree of Southern social reservations as to offending and blatancy. There is still a very sincere and active Christian community in Austin, despite all the liberal nuttiness there.