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They use the seedy stores as examples of why "we" don't want this kind of business in the area at all. It's somehow OK to say we want to go in and rip out all the tacky bars and put in nice interesting brew-pub type places that serve decent food and have some live music, but no one will say lets shut down the disgusting porn-shop peep-show parlors and put in something nice and family-friendly.

Ehe heh ehe heh... They've been trying to do that here (we've had a long succession of anally-retentive, dried-up, bluestocking, religious Christian women mayors around here -- yes, those kind of women, strawberry-social politicians, so to speak), but they haven't been able to go that far... There is at least one decent chain of "adult" stores here, called "Adults Only Video." While they do sell a lot of "mass market pornography" (what's wrong with that? This city could use a little less prayin' and a little more pr0n), you've not been in a sex-positive, woman-friendly business until you walk up to the dyke behind the counter and ask her for a reference on a dildo, and she says, "Well, I pick out the ones I like, take 'em out of the boxes, put batteries in 'em, and race 'em across the counter. Whichever one wins, that's the one I take home," and then proceeds to demonstrate.

Then again, maybe I'm just biased against BC politix in general. Any province which can produce a right-wing, fundamentalist Christian, antiabortion Asian dude who works in IT and is a passionate defender of environmentalism and mass transit (eg. Eugene Wong from Slashdot) is probably too fucked-up for this whitebread hick from Ontariariario...