Posted by: Ed Chernoff
April 16, 2007
Topic: Business is Good, Memorial Park is Bad

It appears that some men like to make romantic connections at Memorial Park and those that do are somewhat prone to advertising their long resumes in the dark recesses of the park.  All of these love matches are done in private and among consenting adults. Come to think of it, every arrest Vice seems to make involves consenting adults taking every precaution to assure that their activites remain private. Prostitution, illicit table dances, escort requests and penis displays in the woods are all typically private activities.

I don't want to be walking down the street and be subjected to another mans genitals. I don't deserve such a vision, and I would certainly insist that person be prosecuted. But, if I tacitly approve of such behaviour - for whatever reason - where should my objection lie? Surely no law enforcement agency would investigate, if I complained about all the nude men in my gym locker room! (And I suspect some of them like showing their penis' a little too much.)

My view, and I don't think I'm alone here, is that we are wasting our time legislating and prosecuting morality. It might make certain segments of our community feel better when topless dancers are forced to prance into county court, their lucite high heels echoing against the the walls, so that they can admit in shame that their buttocks came too close to a vice cops genitals, but its not going to change anything. If history is any indicator, there's always going to be another pair of buttocks willing to sit down on a lap if the price is right. We are playing dumb for the moralists.

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