In July, an envelope-pushing strip club owner, Howard White, changed the main sign for his joint on Century Boulevard near the Los Angeles International Airport from 'Live Nude Nude Nudes' to a bolder and more controversial 'Vaginas R Us.'
Neighboring merchants immediately complained about it. City officials, though, said that 'vagina' is simply not an obscene word, and White cannot be forced to change the sign. However, the city did cite White's sign for being made of illegal combustible vinyl.
At press time, opponents of the sign were trying to encourage the Toys R' Us company to force White to abandon the name as too similar to its own protected trademark.
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