If you are an internet service sales person I would set up right there on the sidewalk and go to town. Seriously, who buys porno in (pardon me) hard copy these days. What a sleazy addition to uptown. I hope they go belly up in a week.

Good luck fighting this one neighbors…the lib courts will rule 1st amendment just like they did with video games. To hell with the moral fiber of our country. Whatever feels right must be right.

So a store that sells sex stuf fto gay men is ok but one that isnt strictly for gay people is bad? hmmm sounds like uptown to me.

“We work with our neighbors very well”, how stupid is that? Only the one’s that are looking for co-ck-extenders. What a joke of an article!

It’s ok for wcco to type the words of the gay store above, but i’m sensored when i type the same name? What a bunch of hypocrites. I tryed posting twice with the title they posted and it wont post mine….hmmmmm?

It will only be republican perverts that go there.

“It’s bringing people into this neighborhood that are interested in hardcore pornography, and we don’t want it here. “

Yeah, because your neighborhood is completely devoid of people who watch porn. Uh-huh. Riiiiiiiiiight.

FTA: “We have no idea what to think,” she said.

I believe it. I’m glad I’m smart enough to know better than to think it makes me “neat”, “enlightened” or “grown up” to giggle and be agog at *naughty stuff*. 8 year olds do that. Sex is a wonderful thing, but as a grown up, I don’t want to lead a crotch-centric life. It’s ok for my dog, but it’s not for me.

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The whole thing wounds gay to me.

Oh, so straight porn is ‘hardcore porn’, but gay porn is something else. OK, I get it. Unbelieveable what gets portrayed as ‘decency’ in Mpls nowadays.

It’s uptown for god sakes. Hennepin Ave, It’s supposed to have sexual stores, That’s what uptown is. Artsie Fartsie, and Gay. HELLO!

There are some major differences between Larry Flint’s new store and the CP Project. The CP is primarily a clothing and accessories store with a few “adult” items. The CP also has a very understated storefront that shows respect for the community that it is in. Most people walk past it without even knowing what it is. Flint’s store, i can only imagine, will put it in the neighborhood’s face about the wares they will peddle.

Hopefully they have a small theatre or viewing area. I will stop by often.

I was at the meeting and I can assure you it’s not just moms who are upset about this. Some of the most vocal in the group were dads who don’t want hardcore porno-perverts and sexual predators anywhere near their kids. Let’s not forget, a LOT of families live in this neighborhood and children attend school less than 350′ away from this shop. The zoning laws must be changed and I suggest you all look at your neighborhood zoning. This is NOT the first Minnesota neighborhood Larry Flynt’s ‘corpornate’ empire plans to conquer!

All sorts of people were at the meeting, and it was NOT primarily “moms.” Those of you who are generalizing about Uptown and it’s residents and/or defending porn as the right to freedom of speech aren’t getting the point.
I would guess most people who spoke up at the meeting weren’t “against” sex or porn, their concern is about Flynt’s morals.
Flynt is a misogynist who has been extremely successful in hiding his sex-addiction and mistreatment of women for his own profit. He has done this by claiming it’s all part of the First Amendment.
Those who vocalized their concerns have every right to be concerned that the location is too close to family-filled, residential neighborhoods. They are being protective of their children and themselves. There are reasons that MINORS have restricted access to porn. Their minds aren’t yet able to distinguish appropriate behaviors.
MANY studies have shown that with prolonged exposure to sexually explicit materials, individuals tend to be desensitized to it and distorts individuals’ sexual views and behavior.
Flynt isn’t local. Flynt doesn’t care a lick about being a good neighbor. Flynt is out to make money selling porn with complete disregard to its possible effects.

Really?? And none of the other pornographers are any different?? Just because Larry Flint isn’t from Mpls, you will form a lynch mob and run him out of town? So if the owner was a local, then you would embrace him in a loving hug? Do you know of ANY porn king who ISN’T a misogyinist? IF so, then why do you allow all of the other sex shops to exist anywhere in Mpls?? Why don’t you get your mob together and shut them all down??

This feels like a depression-era happening. Porn, burlesque, prohibition, cigarettes were guilty pleasures of an ignorant, bygone era.
We know better now. We know how addictive alcohol and nicotine (among others) have proven to be. And yet tobacco companies have been peddling their wares to younger and younger people in this and other countries, just for money, pure and simple. It’s not a product anyone believes in. It’s about money.
Pornography served a purpose at different times in history, and the lack of honesty and freedom may have caused extreme behaviors. But now we know more about the brain. For instance, that there is no better way to alter it’s chemistry than by feeding it visuals that stimulate the endorphin release system, coupled with a physical response (eventually, not in the proposed store itself, let’s hope!).

“Sex addiction” is the fastest growing addiction in the world.
What the men and women of Lowry Hill/Kenwood and others object to is the proximity to school children only 350 feet away and the heavy traffic traveling on Hennepin. This not a case of “if you don’t want it, don’t buy it.”
Porn hurts everyone, eventually.