March 12, 2013

  • Choices

    There is this billboard on the highway I often drive.  It is of a beautiful young girl with a rather pouty look on her face.  Young and fresh faced yet seductive.  Purposely so.  The billboard advertises the "Joy Gentlemen's Club".  Read strip joint.

    I read a story about a young girl that had gone missing a couple of years ago and her family had been searching for her.  They were told she was most likely dead as there had been no activity on her cell phone and there were other tell-tale signs that foul play had taken place.  One day they were driving down the road and spotted their daughter on a billboard advertising a phone "companion" service.  Read phone sex.  They immediately called and got the police involved and it turned out the company located in another state had just bought her photo as part of a package of stock photos.  The police determined the company had no knowledge of the girl.  The family was devastated that the picture of their daughter was now a fifteen foot image in their city and was used to advertise sexual services.  They failed in their attempts to get the company to remove the advertisement and have since discovered their daughter's image has been used online on several porn sites.

    Tonight driving by that sign I wondered about the young lady pictured on the billboard.  Did she choose to have her image used in such a manner?  If so I wonder what her family thinks of it.  I can't imagine being a mom and showing my daughter's picture and saying proudly, "she's the top performer on the pole at her club and she might even get promoted to a cage....."


    On a different topic I discovered the worst feature of the new house.  It is only three blocks from Mission Burrito.