Okay, my first question is: Wrestling videos? Really?
My second, more legitimate question is this: This chapter mentions how often laws like Giuliani's "quality of life" rezoning and real estate interests override what the public actually wants or cares about. For example, Disney's control over Times Square made it impossible for adult stores and the like to remain open while many viewed these places of business as harmless or even, if I may be so bold, as a daily hangout. Because these places were, and are, some of the only vestiges of open sexuality in the modern world, they remain important to safe and free sexuality. What happens when all these businesses are closed because of these kinds of ordinances? What will the repercussions be?
I believe that if all adult businesses were to close it would be a grave miscarriage of the constitution as well as a form of denial. People want to go around and pretend that sex and all its variances don't exist, (or that missionary is the only position,) and, while it is their right to think however they please, if I want to go to an adult store and buy some fuzzy handcuffs I am perfectly within my rights as an American to do so. Getting rid of adult stores won't get rid of deviant sex, or any kind of sex for that matter, so to ban them is really a moot point. Getting rid of adult stores, while not the end of the world, shows a bias towards any kind of sex that is considered to be abnormal. If it is possible to ban adult stores, what else could be banned?
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