I’m older than respectable businesses that sell sex toys.
When I left the farm in 1976 and attended college in Kansas City, my friends took me to both red light districts.
The one downtown was seventies looking pimps in Cadillacs and street walkers, that would yell at us You want a date?
[ No thanks, I had a girlfriend.
]
That downtown vice district looked, and was dangerous.
Four miles south on Main Street near the Country Club Plaza was more my speed of Sodom and Gomorrah. It was brightly lit with neon and flashing lights arcade district with lots of peep shows, sex toys for sale, old perverts, gay bars, strip clubs, and to my delight an old time honky tonk country bar exactly like the ones I’d grown to love. Inside were old barflies older than my mother who’d laugh and cackle with the old men sitting at her table.
I realized then, what Bright Lights and Country Music was all about:
I see decent looking thirtysomething red heads on television peddling sex toys, and somehow that’s just wrong, you know?