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> You're not allowed to have a big billboard with porn on it

Most adults would be put off by that as well, I’m not sure if this is indicative of public spaces.

That said, I agree that public spaces cannot possibly be adult only by default, as children have to traverse them.




But we have a very unrealistic view of what's harmful to children. Non-sexual nudity is not a threat, period. Playboy--yeah, because of some of the tobacco ads clearly aimed at teenagers. The nudity--harmless.

I grew up in a household where no effort was made to hide adult materials. Oh, the horrors--that don't actually exist. There is exactly zero overlap between my father's kinks (I was the one that had to go through his stuff when he died, I know what they are) and my own.

As for the billboard--there's sometimes been a prostitute ad on a billboard here. "Full" nudity with strategically placed text. Of course it pretends they are dancers but few people are actually mislead. (Despite a fair amount of misunderstanding prostitution is *not* legal in Las Vegas. It's banned by state law in the two most populous counties, local choice otherwise. However, there's pretty much a truce between the outcall escorts and the police--they don't do other wrongs, the cops don't try to catch them.)




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