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From: lincoln@eosp1.UUCP (Dick Lincoln)
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Subject: Re: Telephones and red-light districts
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Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 11:27:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  1 11:27:42 1984
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>> 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).