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Dallas Bans X-Rated Expo

Dallas Bans X-Rated Expo

Don’t Mess With Texas.

When you think of Dallas, you probably think of the Cowboys, Southern values, big hair, and mega churches - which is why it’s no surprise the city is causing an uproar over the upcoming EXXXOTICA Expo that was set to be held at the city’s convention center this May. If you’re not familiar with the EXXXOTICA Expo, it’s the one of the largest “love and sex” conventions in the US. The conference was set to be held over three days in four cities (Dallas, Chicago, Columbus, and Edison), but Dallas may be at a halt due to city council.

As the website explains,

“EXXXOTICA was created for adults who are looking to start their own sexual revolution. Spice up your love life with seminars. Explore your fantasies by shopping over 100 exhibitors. From vanilla to kink, there’s something for everyone.”

Though adult entertainment is not illegal, it definitely isn’t for everyone. People have their own right to let their freak flag fly, but Dallas mayor, Mike Rawlings, doesn’t see this clientele as a safe and well-represented crowd to take over the downtown area of the city. The Expo made its Dallas debut this past August in the same convention center, but many citizens were enraged and protests followed.

Despite the overall concept of the convention, Rawlings measures center more around the safety of women and children. With sex trafficking being a $99 million industry in Texas alone, the mayor worries the online escort services involved with the convention will increase the risk. Also, the advertised “Dungeon Room” allows convention-goers to tie women up and whip them throughout the weekend - which doesn’t serve as a respectable or honest way of treating individuals.

The vote to ban the conference was held yesterday, and Dallas has officially banned the EXXXOTICA Expo. Since the Expo is represented under the First Amendment, a legal battle is soon to follow. Who do you think will win? Do you think it’s wrong Dallas is refusing to allow the Expo to take place in the city?

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  • I have attended a similar show here in Toronto and it is far from being the depths of sleaze and Helen Lovejoy-esque "think of the children!" terror this is being portrayed as.

    It is mostly couples, or friends (I was there with my best friend). The naughtiest part was a pair of stalls put up by a porn paysite and they'd brought along a few stars to sign autographs, pose for pictures. Two acted out a (clothed) lesbian scene and there was also an invitation for any attendee could ***VOLUNTEER*** to be whipped if they wanted. Everything else was the sort of toys and other adult fun you can find in any sex shop.

    Everyone showed up knowing exactly what it was going to be like and so the atmosphere was friendly, funny and relaxed. I don't see how a show like this is any different from what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes, except here they are gathering together and spending money and doing a lot less than they'd normally do in their own homes!!

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  • This surprises me.

    I know the proprietors of the Marek+Richard clothing brand -- a super-raunchy, gay-themed men's clothing brand based in Dallas -- and they chose to set up shop in Dallas because it's pretty gay- and sex-friendly, by regional standards at least.
    I mean, obviously it's not San Francisco, but, still. I wouldn't have expected this.

    San Francisco is so far gone that the people at these kinds of things don't even seem to be having FUN anymore, by the way. Like, SF kinda has a way of taking all the fun out of everything sexual, and turning it all into a giant political discussion all the time.

    Seems like it's getting harder to find a middle ground.

    • In the last couple of years, San Francisco has turned against a lot of the things they used to allow, especially nudity in areas of the city that were okay with it.

    • @Red_Arrow Really? Has that affected property values? Hahahah except actually being kinda serious

    • Doubt it has had a positive effect on property values. Certain areas of the Castro District seemed to have been happy with the nudity that was there before. The Bay to Breakers was an event that people loved to watch as well as run in, and many ran it naked or close to it. The Naked Bike Ride was quite popular there.

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  • I think it really depends. Obviously the people who own the centre have a right to deny the space to a group if it feels like the group is going to be doing or promoting something that is against what they agree with.

    My city used to hold something similar to this. They used to have a sex show and I always wanted to go. The year that I moved to my city was the first year they stopped doing it :( I was kind of sad about it.

    I think these types of shows can be great for people to explore their sexuality in a safe place.

    So many times people judge you for simply wanting to know more about something. Even something that is tame can be scrutinized in the wrong crowd.

    What they could have done, was ask the groups to tone it down a bit. Maybe instead of having women being whipped, it could have been open to whomever wanted to volunteer. That way it was a voluntary thing and not just something involving women.

    I can certainly understand the safety thing and the human trafficking concerns. It's hard to separate the sex show with this sort of thing because it is part of the seedy underbelly of the sex industry.

    The only way they could police it is if they refused to allow the escort services. There are still plenty of other sex related aspects of the industry that could be involved in the expo.

    • When more people accept their sexual selves (sorry religion) and they make sex related industries legal and the stigma of all this shit disappears, human trafficking will decline because when you put rules on something, it goes underground. P. s... I'm Never moving to Texas.

  • Hopefully Dallas will loose this battle. Like porn or not as long as the goings on are legal it becomes a 1st amendment issue. Allow this and what would be the next thing cities might like to ban?

  • Will be interesting to find out how this works out. In any case, since this was apparently okayed before this decision, if the convention is prevented, I hope they recover all costs in a lawsuit against the city.

  • Porn destroys minds and lives in some cases faster than alcohol. And the "first amendment protection" thing is highly disputed due to obscenity laws. Why do we even need it? Get a wife, and treat her right. Women, get a husband, treat him right. The moments may be rarer, but that means you will have more vigor when the moment does arrive. Warm bodies combine, serotonin is released. The idea that you need to "sample every flavor in every fetish" is pure vanity. A vanity that will destroy you if you take it too far.

    • as much as i don't care for the bible, I agree with your first statement, porn does destroy minds and lives faster than alcohol.

    • @lacorine197 : Some truths are harder to suppress or deny than others. In the case of porn, far too many addicts adopt a mentality that makes how they talk and act under the influence inexcusable. And that's saying something. I've seen a lot of videos about drunks, and been in disbelief the things that come out of their mouths. It really makes me feel sorry for traffic cops that routinely have to deal with it.

  • Did they end up banning it? If so, I'm sure there are plenty of cities that would love to have the money associated with it.

  • A little too conservative for me, but I do understand their fears from what you write. Sad but this is the conservative right flexing it's muscle.

  • You say Dallas, I think dead Kennedy.

  • Dallas can do what it wants. There are plenty of places for that type of thing.

  • Its TEXAS. What do you expect, Thats why they call themselves the "LONE STAR STATE".. Everything is bigger and better.. supposedly. When they are knocked down to size they throw a temper tantrum (Sounds like a Presidential candidate) and takes their ball and goes home.

  • I'm not a fan of porn, but if you like it you can go, if you don't you don't. i dunno why it's outlawed.

  • ty[ical southereners.

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