Word: mason
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Playboy and a corps of far crasser imitators, all publicly exploring once private depths of sex and occasionally coming out with cover shots of women masturbating, are at supermarket chains on the racks and on view for millions of customers of all ages. Mason City, Iowa (pop. 32,000), has five bars featuring all-nude dancers to titillate customers (see box page 60). Boston lures the licentious?or the curious?to an anything-goes "combat zone," and other cities are rushing to find out how to emulate the zone, a device to quarantine the porno plague...
Change came to Mason City, Iowa, in the mid-'60s. The state approved liquor by the drink in 1963, and the first bars gradually appeared in town. Then came go-go dancers, and by 1965 they were topless. "Things that started in Des Moines pretty soon channeled down to cities our size," says the city's Chief of Police W.D. ("Wes") Greenan. "At first people got pretty upset, but there was nothing legally we could...
...Richard Davis, a Des Moines businessman, applied for a license for an "adult" moviehouse in Mason City. The mayor refused to sign the license, but Davis took the case to court and won. "There was nothing we could do then, and nothing we can do now," says Kenneth E. Kew, a news director at a local TV and radio station at the time, and today the mayor...
...pornographic bookstore arrived in 1973, complete with 16-mm. films and a hefty display of sex devices. Sales are up 25% since the first year, and the number of female customers is increasing. Yet many patrons are still furtive. As Charles Walk, editor of the Mason City Globe Gazette says, "If you walk out of there with a brown paper bag and run into your wife's hairdresser, you know what the talk's going to be at the hairdresser's for the next three weeks...
...John F. Mason St. Michaels...