Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: mod.motss Subject: Re: Reply to Byron Howes - San Francisco news Message-ID: <1028@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 18:26:55 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1028 Posted: Mon Oct 15 18:26:55 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 07:06:51 EDT References: <3840@decwrl.UUCP> <410@amd.UUCP> <1024@bbncca.ARPA> <1027@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 13 Approved: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA Doubtless this kind of revelation will make Ken Arndt swoon, but if some San Francisco bookstores were closed, they were surely not Waldenbooks, B. Dalton or even that paragon of respectability, the Walt Whitman Bookstore. Rather, "bookstore" is a genteelism for an establishment which sells pornography and "marital aids" in the front of the store, with a collection of peep-show booths in the rear which show porno video tapes and provide a convenient place for (not so) surreptitious sex. From a public health standpoint, they are little different than bathhouses. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA