1) Why get involved with this issue when there are so many other worthy
issues in the community?

According to the Ohio State Attourney General's office, in 2004 and in 2005,
Richland County is ranked number one out of the the eighty-eight counties of
Ohio in the number of sexual offenders residing in its county per capita.
In addition, RCFC has access to more than 30 case studies correlating
sexually-oriented businesses with secondary adverse effects such as:
increased crime, urban blight, and dropping property values; so the evidence
is very conclusive on what this business brings to the community. The
increase of divorce and sexually-transmitted diseases are also associated
with this industry.

The problem in our community is not the sex offenders themselves, the
problem is the catalyst that starts unhealthy addictions and fuels the
addiction to this destructive behavior. This source is what
sexually-oriented businesses bring to the table. By confronting the source,
the problem can be addressed. Preventing problems are more preferable than
treating problems.



2) How can you link pornography with violence?

Its ironic that in other venues such as our education system and the
advertising industry, images that we see or actions that are demonstrated
are expected to impact how we act. Advertisers for the 2006 Super Bowl XL
such as Anhaeuser Busch, Gillette, Careerbuilders.com, and GM all paid 2.6
million dollars per 30 second time slot to advertise their product during
the TV broadcast of the Super Bowl. Advertisers know that what people see in
ads can entice people to buy their products. In the same way, our education
system teaches kids with video curriculum, models, or with other
demonstrations in class and in lab on how to do specific tasks. Why is it
that when it comes to pornography, the argument has a different set of
conditions and rules. Could it be that the so-called experts who say
pornography does not affect behavior have a problem they are not willing to
deal with? People do not see things as they really are, they see things as
they want them to be; its called parallax.

In the 1983 movie "ET" which was released in 2004, the candy company which
makes the candy "Reece's Pieces" reported a large increase in sales that
year, which it attributes to the 20 second exposure it got when it was seen
in the motion picture. 20 seconds.

A recent study in October 2005 In New Hampshire found that 40% of all porn
users were involved in some type of sex abuse. In the mid 1990's, New
Hampshire and Alaska had two things in common: both states led the nation in
rapes per capita, and pornagraphic mail subscriptions per capita.

3) If you don't like the strip club in your community, than just don't go
to it then.

This statement can be a valid point if the patrons that attend the strip
club eat, sleep and work inside the establishment. But the truth is, the
patrons who are exposed to public errotic behavior inside the club leave the
premises; they go back to their homes where there families are, they go back
to work where their co-workers are, they walk the streets where children and
women are, etc, etc. Therefore family members are impacted through sex
abuse and divorce. Co-workers are harrrassed on the job, and residents in
the community fall prey to sexually-deviant crimes.

From a financial point of view, taxes increase when there are more patients
attending the public health clinic from contracting STD's. Also, the court
system is burdened with an increased workload from additional overtime hours
and increased staffing from increased violence and divorce. Businesses leave
the area (urban blight) taking away tax revenue from the community. Sex
clubs can tax the entire county.

The fact of the matter is that the sex club pollutes the county downwind and
downstream. Its called non-point pollution. We are all connected in our
community. When one part of the community is blessed, the rest of the
community is blessed. When one one part of the community is cursed, the rest of
the community is cursed.