In Sarasota, Florida this week, adult business zoning laws and neighborhood stodginess prevented a local business owner from opening a hair salon in which the hairdressers would be dressed down to bikinis. Refusing to go gentle into that good night, the would-be businessman is now setting up window displays of a suggestive nature. Sure, maybe it’s a little aggressive since there’s an elementary school only a few hundred feet away—but as we well know from those reports of the adult industry bringing in $983 squillion a year, there’s money in this business, and some people just aren’t going to sit down and take their injustices quietly. Or without visual demonstrations of hot mannequin-on-mannequin love. David Douthitt, who refers to the potential hair salon as a clip joint instead of a strip joint, may be helping to drive home the point that adult businesses are bad for the neighborhood … but at least the pictures of his protest methods are amusing. Especially if you’re into hot mannequin-on-mannequin love.
· “Man’s Pornographic Protest Uses Naked Mannequins” (slideshow @ wftv.com)
