Agh, Can't Go Back To The Porn Shop Now.

[CounslerCoffee]

First the article that showed up on my local news:

(LOUISVILLE, November 4th, 2003, 1 p.m.) -- An adult business in Louisville is fighting back against the man who has been photographing its customers. John Reneer has been taking pictures of customers as they enter and leave the business and placing them on his website. But Reneer is on a website himself -- the state's sex offender registry. WAVE 3 Investigator James Zambroski has the details.

Click here for the full article.

And the previous article that predates this one:

(LOUISVILLE, October 9th, 2003, 6:30 p.m.) -- If you frequent adult bookstores or strip clubs, your picture may be on the Internet right now. As WAVE 3's Dina Kaplan reports, a newly created group in Louisville is hoping to shut down some sexually-oriented businesses by humiliating their customers. It's a story you'll see only on WAVE3 News.

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?s=%20%201476290

I don't go to porn shops, even if the one in the article is right down the street, so I have nothing to worry about. Right?

So I've got just a few questions:

Is photographing someone exiting an adult book store against the law?

Is it an invasion of privacy?

Let's keep this next part simple.

I visited the groups website, http://www.war-line.com , in order to find out their side of the story. I got this:

Are you thinking about sexually assaulting or raping someone? Call us. You can call anonymously. We will never know who you are, but we can talk together

War-Line was not designed to watch things happen. War-Line is here to make things happen. Click on our You’re Busted page and see places and faces and license plate numbers. See photos of people who spend time in adult book stores and nude/bikini dance joints. Visit us daily to browse our latest photo gallery.

AND

To combat sexual assault and rape in every form via communication and personal preventive intervention.

I didn't know that watching pornography could lead someone to commit rape.

Note: This organization does believe that pornography can lead to rape, just read their mission statement and goals page.

I guess its okay for war-line to take pictures of people and post em' on the internet, that way war-line can ruin peoples lives, marriages, and relationships.

 

[zanket]

I’m not sure about the legality, but one solution for porn-shoppers is to be unaffected by what others think. Choose a spouse who is okay with porn. It's doubtful a large employer would care about the site.

 

[sargentlard]

I believe it is very much illegal to take pictures of those people and post them up without their permision. It is very much wrong. Their beliefes cloud their better judgement (if they even have any to begin with). These morality zealots have no legal right to do this.

 

[Jerrek]

Really. So all those pictures of the crowds that attended the Pope's arrival in Toronto is then probably illegal.

 

[sargentlard]

They weren't taken for a specific purpose: which, in this case, is to embarass those customers.

 

[Mystech]

If pornography caused people to commit rape, there'd be a lot more rapists out there.

I say that, if anything, it prevents rape, after all, when are you gonna' be more desperate for sex, when you're hard up and can't get any, or after you've beat off watching some people doin' it on the TV?

 

[Vortexx]

Cool, go to the shop, dressed as your local political opponent and call one of your befriended journalists for you smear campaigns....