Indiana Group Targets Adult Businesses

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — A Southern Indiana anti-porn group called ROCK (Reclaim Our Culture Kentuckiana) has unveiled a new billboard aimed at exposing what the group says are the negative effects of adult-oriented businesses.

According to a recent report in the Louisville Courier-Journal, the billboard, installed last week, features the triple-X symbol with a red slash over it next to a picture of a young woman and a caption that reads: “Someone's daughter.”

This is the second anti-porn billboard the group has created, and both are located by major Indiana highways.

ROCK president Bryan Wickens told the Courier-Journal that he thinks communities should use strong ordinances to limit the location and concentration of adult businesses.

Like other anti-porn groups, ROCK uses the “secondary effects” ploy as the basis for its attack on sexually-oriented businesses.

“[Adult-oriented businesses ] are just not subject to the whims of people like ROCK who want to take people's freedoms from them,” Louisville attorney Mike Hatzell told the Courier-Journal. He said no scientific studies have linked increased crime to adult entertainment.