Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!lincoln From: lincoln@eosp1.UUCP (Dick Lincoln) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Telephones and red-light districts Message-ID: <628@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 11:27:42 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.628 Posted: Thu Mar 1 11:27:42 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 07:09:59 EST References: <3393@utcsrgv.UUCP> <394@decvax.UUCP> Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 10 >> Stephen Perlegut quotes Marshall McLuhan as saying: >> No more unexpected social result of the telephone has been >> observed than its elimination of the red-light district >> and its creation of the call girl. If by this McLuhan was implying a causal relationship between the telephone and the soliciting methods of prostitutes, the telephone must have missed the NYC Times Square area altogether (particular a few years ago).