Porn on my shoes
Mexican people endure quite a bit to come to this great nation of ours. They come here with a dream to work hard and earn a living. In Vegas that dream apparently involves standing on a street corner passing out pamphlets containing hardcore pornography that advertise in room strippers and escorts, which you should know translates as hookers.
I realize that Vegas is not a family oriented sort of town and is more toward the debauchery side of things, like gambling, drinking and nekkid (or partially nekkid) women. I could understand if they passed out a flyer that had a scantily clad lady on it with a phone number but they were passing out flyers with some pretty hard core stuff on it (we’re talking looks like she’d been hit with an axe type of stuff). These flyers litter the streets. You can’t step any where in Vegas without getting porn on your shoes.
A lot of families come to Vegas. You can see the teen and pre-teen boys walking with their families trying to look at the porn on the street while trying not to appear like they’re looking at it. I know, you never thought you’d hear me say it, but there ought to be a law.
BTW, I am blogging this from the Vegas airport which has what is apparently the slowest wifi on Earth.
January 15th, 2005 at 11:52 pm
There shouldn’t be a law, parents should know that Vegas is not a family vacation spot, and go somewhere else. We have too many laws, and most of them do more harm than good.
January 16th, 2005 at 11:42 pm
I was out there for two weeks on business recently.
The locals told me the campaign to make the place a ‘family resort’ didn’t work…so they went back to sleeze.
That…they do well.
Gotta love the slots in 7-11s, foodstores, gas stations, restrooms, etc…weird. Waiting for a plane? Gamble in the airport.
January 18th, 2005 at 10:41 am
I thought there already was a law… Of course, if Lost Wages has finally realized that their core business is incompatible with family vacations, maybe the cops are looking the other way. But they have their own kids to think of, too.
For one thing, prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas and probably the whole county. (There is a bill pending in the legislature to allow the city to create a legal red-light zone, but unless and until that passes the activities you described are illegal.) So just what is business is this porn advertising? Either it’s a legal bordello way out in the country, or it’s illegal.
I visited an electronics supplier in Reno a couple years ago. I didn’t see anything like that there. Sure, noisy, overpriced, smokefilled casinos with women that seemed to have been inserted into their costumes by hydraulic press, but no porn and no obvious solicitation.