Ohio courthouse bans 'No Sex, Please...' poster

[The Straight Story]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A poster for a play with "Sex" in the title has been banned from a northeast Ohio courthouse.

This week Tuscarawas County commissioners ordered the removal of posters advertising a local production of the play, "No Sex Please, We're British."

Commissioners got a complaint about "sex" in the title. Commissioner Chris Abbuhl told The (Dover-New Philadelphia) Times-Reporter that the person thought the poster was inappropriate for a public building.

Nonprofit groups historically have been allowed to put up posters in the courthouse, including the Little Theatre hosting the play.

http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/article/20111119/NEWS01/111190327/Ohio-courthouse-bans-No-Sex-Please-poster

[ejpoeta]

1. that's the complaint? it has the word 'sex' in it? I was not aware that was a bad word.

I could see if it had profanity, but the word sex?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. I think "British" might be more offensive.

[struggle4progress]

7. British sex, please? No British, please? No sex, British? I have no idea what you are trying to say

:D

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. Not that many years ago, our congress banned

the "French" in french fries.

The british are still part of old europe, ergo, they are bad.

[Capitalocracy]

2. Well, I guess I shouldn't bother showing up with the posters for my play,

called "Shove It Up Your Ass, Tuscarawas County Pencil-Neck Paper-Pushers." Although the word "sex" isn't in the title, so maybe...

[lob1]

3. This is a great example of censorship gone nuts.

[TygrBright]

5. These morons probably call the four sticks on the corners of furniture "limbs,"...

...and make sure that the question on any form where they need to know if you have a Y chromosome or not says "Gender."

I thought that s*** went out in the 1920s.

Amazing.

amusedly,
Bright

P.S. The theater company should replace 'em with posters that say "No (censored) Please, etc."

[The Genealogist]

6. Really?

Visit the Historic Tuscarawas County Courthouse: Bringing You Victorian Prudishness Since The Victorian Era.

Amazing I can type the word Tuscarawas so quickly...some of my ancestors were from there. Now, I wonder if I am related to the clowns who can't handle "the S word." :eyes:

[BiggJawn]

9. Authoritarians are uncomfortable with sex.

Involves "letting go" and being un-scripted, dontchaknow...