While driving down the high-traffic Queenston Road which I frequent three times a week, I noticed a billboard that hadn't been there the day before: A SEX SHOW advertisement. Not only was this billboard featured over a FAMILY Martial Arts location, but it also featured a picture of a woman's breast with her nipple topped in whipped cream. This is not only disgusting and sexist but intrusive to drivers who DID NOT ASK to be exposed to this pornographic advertisement.
But that is not the part that is the most disturbing; what is absolutely disgusting is that this is situated DIRECTLY ACROSS from St. Eugene's Catholic ELEMENTARY school! As I drove by, young students in the playground were openly exposed to this billboard. If pornography is illegal for children under 18, how does this billboard gain the rights to be placed across from an elementary school when it is no different?!
As a future educator and a person who is simply for preserving the innocent minds of our youth, I am so disappointed in the city of Hamilton that they would allow such a billboard, especially in a location where it is so openly exposed to children. Already I was disappointed in every representative that was elected for Hamilton-Wentworth Public Schools when results were in last night but this takes the cake.
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