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Do you really need anything other than the Toadies?!

I followed the Oprah (ugh) link. People get addicted to all kinds of things, up to and including shooting guns, I'm sure. People certainly get addicted to drinking and smoking, do you propose we also ban alcohol and tobacco? (Both can hurt children, too, by the way) Where is the line drawn? Let's get rid of all the sharp corners in the world, too!

So if we move the porn stores two counties away, uh, what about the kids living there? Why does the porn store have to move and not the gun & tobacco outlets? Where is the line drawn?

I'm not arguing for porn here, I'm arguing for freedom. If we start with one thing where does it end? Consenting adults shouldn't suffer because people are unable to take care of and properly inform their children. After porn it will be something else, and something else...

Where is the line drawn?

And with that, I'm through. I wish Shawn would have commented.

If you can't explain why it's bad for a porn store to be near a school then you must have an irrational reason to begin with. It's a cop out to say 'oh you just cannot be told!'.

There is a guns & ammo store half a mile from Clark High School in Plano. Guns are used to kill people, among other things. Where is the riot?

"'By the way, I agree that porn could hurt children.' Really? So why set up a porn shop near a school?"

He said porn could/would hurt children. How does the porn get to the children just because a store opens down the street? By that logic everyone at Clark should be shooting each other.

Also, I'm pretty sure New Fine Arts are always 'blank'-ish outside and only say 'New Fine Arts'. No red neons saying XXX or anything.

People are misunderstanding my not caring about the kids as me conceding that a porn store damages kids OR that not caring about people I don't know is the same thing as wanting to harm them (are you crazy?).

No, no, no and no. I've still yet to see any comments that point out how this porn store hurts children in any way. Just because I may seem rude (or even evil to some of you) does not make me magically wrong.

If you're unprepared to talk to your children about sex then I don't believe you should be a parent. As Pavel said, if they're too young (it seems that to some of you 'too young' is probably 40+) just tell them it's an adult place, just like you would for a bar or something else adult-y. If all else fails, remember that it's a free country and freely evacuate to the suburbs where you can shield your child from everything in the world until you abort them into it at 18.

Blair, I think Pavel said it for me. Nobody is making (or even allowing) children into or around the store.

Michael, good points. I hope in the future (when we get further from this Victorian era/'publican/religious wacko fear of sex) that sort of thing changes. I'm still embarrassed to live in a state where sex toys have to be sold as novelties or else it is a crime (maybe this changed, I remember reading a story about it years ago).

I was really commenting hoping that the author would reply in regards to all of his "think of the children!" commentary in the article.

I completely agree with your comment. It isn't as if I'm outside right now protesting American Idol. I watch the first few episodes of the season and laugh my ass off... but this is just one of example of what we're teaching our kids, and you guys are complaining about New Fine Arts?

But this isn't about American Idol and I don't want it to be. As I said, that was just an example of "trash TV" and all the other things affecting 'our' kids that you guys don't seem to mind.

Please, to re-rail, someone explain how you think New Fine Arts will hurt local kids.

"Is that a serious statement?"

Sure,

New Fine Arts: Clean outside, well lit, fenced in, and disallows all minors from entering/buying.

American Idol: Teaches kid that degrading people to their faces (or not) is funny and cool. Many contestants certainly bare more sexuality than the outside of a clean adult store.

American Idol was pretty much a quick replacement on my end for "trash TV". If people want to worry about the youth of America (in a crazy morality sense Pavel laughed at) we have a lot more problems than a locked down adult store. I personally could care less about the kids, but I'd like someone here to elaborate how New Fine Arts will harm any kids in the area before they go trying to get it removed.