May 19, 2008
Once again proving there’s more than corn in Indiana … there’re crazies
OK, so I may be the last person on the face of the planet who came across the news that Indiana’s state legislature just passed a law that will require bookstores to register with the state if they sell “sexually explicit” books. Of course, folks shouldn’t worry. Indiana’s definition of “sexually explicit” is clearly defined—your friendly neighborhood independent bookstore selling Our Bodies, Ourselves, virtually anything by Philip Roth, and who knows coffee table books of vintage photographs of Victorian women on the beach showing a little ankle (Jezebels!), could all probably fall under the category of sexually explicit.
Isn’t it nice to know that politicians want to classify a store that sells The Cat in the Hat and maybe a copy of Lolita or two in the exact same way it classifies some seedy, off-highway cinderblock building with neon lights boasting hardcore XXX action?
Posted by Drew on May 19 at 01:55 PM