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The US is pretty extreme, you have at the same time easy access to all the pornography you want (unless you’re in states that require age verification), and als
by dgellow 4mo ago
The US is pretty extreme, you have at the same time easy access to all the pornography you want (unless you’re in states that require age verification), and also a very prude culture. It’s not the only place with such contradictions though
- RajT88 4mo agoTexas is particularly wild to me as a midwesterner. All the bibles and megachurches and all that and... They have strip clubs freaking everywhere! Really weird zoning laws as well - I recall seeing a strip club across the street from an Office Depot, next to a deli. The suburbs where I live, you have to go to a seedy part of town so you feel good and ashamed about it. lol Some TV shows rightfully take aim at this contradiction (recently: The Hunting Wives).
- dgellow 4mo agoThat’s hilarious!
- brokenmachine 4mo agoMy uninformed guess as a non-murican would be that it's just zoned as a business. I doubt there would be a special zoning category exclusively for strip clubs.
- RajT88 4mo agoThat varies from state to state, and even city to city. Where I live "adult entertainment" businesses are forced in most cities to use industrial zoning, like in warehouse / factory districts. In Texas, I guess it is a lot more restrictive, but most of those businesses are "grandfathered" in because they were built before the suburban areas got built up and the tougher zoning laws went into place.