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Dozens of Santa Clarita residents have shared their opposition to KHTS about billboards that advertise Adult Con — an adult entertainment convention that is held annually in Los Angeles.
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The billboard advertisements for Adult Con have been displayed in Santa Clarita over the past few summers, but dozens have voiced their grievances to what they believe is suggestive content being publically displayed.
Santa Clarita resident Jeff Jems, confirmed to KHTS that he has been working to take down the billboard advertisement that he feels are inappropriate for young people to see.
Jems works at “Celebrate Recovery,” a faith-based addiction recovery program that is housed out of Real LIfe Church in Santa Clarita and based on his experiences working with young men who struggle with pornography, these types of advertisements lead to a slippery slope, Jems said.
“It goes from one (billboard), to two, to three and so on,” Jems said. “Then it just starts becoming the norm.”
Jems voiced his concern to both the city and the billboard company, Outfront Media, and was successful in getting one of the three Adult Con advertisements in Santa Clarita taken down.
However, despite what the opponents of the billboards see as inappropriate, city officials stated that the advertisements abide by the permissible parameters outlined in the California Outdoor Advertising Act.
“There are guidelines through the state of California that do outline the display and allowance of any outdoor advertisement featuring a sign, words, or indecency,” said Daniel Rivas, Santa Clarita Community Preservation Manager. “But in terms of what I’m seeing (on the Adult Con billboards), it would be very difficult for the city to enforce anything.”
City officials have stated not only do they not see the Adult Con advertisements violating state law, but their hands are also tied on the basis that the billboards stand on either private or Metro land.
“The city regulates the development standard of billboards such as location, height, dimensions and illumination (among other things). In addition, billboard signs are also regulated by the California Outdoor Advertising Act,” Rivas said. “(But,) billboard signs in the city are currently located on private property and are owned by both Metro and private property owners.”
The content, ownership and presence of billboard advertising within city limits has been a controversial topic for Santa Clarita in years past.
In 2014, Santa Clarita voters had rejected Measure S, which had it been approved would have been able to gradually remove 42 billboards throughout the city on Metro land, in exchange for the transportation agency contracting with Allivision to build three, large two sided electronic billboards off of the CA-14 and I-5.
After years of negotiating and months of campaigning, Measure S was defeated in Nov. 2014, with 56 percent of voters siding to stop the electronic billboards from being built, in favor of the static signs that remain to this day on both Soledad Canyon Rd. and Railroad Av.
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Even in Santa Clarita freedom of speech is OUR RIGHT! Don’t have to agree with everything but, you better fight to protect their right to say it!
The advertisement from New Chic next to this article is a lot more suggestive and revealing than the billboard. Perhaps we need to be more adult 🙂
The local Taliban have spoken. Freedom isn’t only for popular ideas. Reproductive urges aren’t triggered by billboards. They are built-in. They are normal.
Lol…guess they didn’t get the memo that a ton of adult film actors live in SCV ….and many of their films are filmed in SCV neighborhoods Lmao
Once these “church people” realize that the bible isn’t real, they might live a little. So WHAT if this billboard is up. Kids? It’s not showing nudity in anyway, so what’s the problem? It’s just a advertisement. If that’s the case, boycott all of those Real Life Church billboards & all of those faith advertisements that we see while driving. It goes both ways.
People are so sensitive now a days for every little thing…
but parents are not outraged at how easy it is for their kids have to watch or read about any perversion there is out there in the world with just the push of a button. say no to kids and internet.
Will, all this ruckus…over WHAT? Honestly. Over what? “…parents are not outraged at how easy it is for their kids have to watch or read about any perversion there is out there…” Well, they *shouldn’t* be. Firstly, “kids” don’t HAVE to watch or read “about any perversion there is out there.” (I don’t know where you’re getting this.) Secondly, it’s the *parents’* primary responsibility to answer their young ones’ questions thoroughly in a way that is appropriate for their age. It’s usually the parents who fail at this, are hung up about sex and/or are the ones trolling the internet.
Oh No! Next thing you know SCV kids will be having sex!
Yesterday while at a stop on Balboa I saw one of these billboards showing three young women trying to look sexy, I guess. They looked to me like they all had gas and were trying not to let on. I find an educated free-thinking woman to be much more attractive and sexy. If porn is your concern, get the kids out of the room while watching the news- especially when the bloated Mar-a-Lago Mussolini is running his hole.
Two points occur to me about this issue: one is the prudity engulfing this country. I watch a lot of television from Britain and Australia where they don’t censor the language acknowledging their one-hour dramas are watched by their intended adult audiences; they include all the words I can’t even write here *because* of the ridiculous prudity-inspired censorship. That leads to my second point about oppression of free speech by those prudes *imposing* their values on the rest of us while claiming, in other matters, *their* free speech is being curtailed. This is called hypocrisy. It’s also downright contrary to Democracy where the majority rules — whether the leader of a “faith based addiction recovery program” based in a church likes it or not. Jems says: “It goes from one (billboard), to two, to three and so on,” Jems said. “Then it just starts becoming the norm.” Well, *he* doesn’t get to be the judge and jury of community standards. This zealot is probably too young to remember Lady Bird Johnson’s campaign against ALL billboards but *I* remember and I thought it was a good idea but now I see it as impractical. Sorry, off the track. Bottom line, the people in recovery have ALL my support — truly. But they may not stay here and *anywhere* they go they’re going to face the same issues and triggers. One billboard is *not* going to be the barbershop where they get a haircut.
When my son was little, I would go to that trailer off Reuther to get cartoon videos to watch. There was part of the trailer, behind a thin barrier, for porn videos. That section was always packed. We have other outlets in Santa Clarita with suggestive material and those places are always busy. So Jems this is the Bible Belt. You can rant all you want but people in Santa Clarita have been into porn for decades and being the Bible Belt, the prudes of Santa Clarita agree with you, while their spouse is at the Fun Zone picking out a new porn film to watch after reading their bibles and saying their bedtime prayers..