I just got this email from a Savage Love reader in Ohio…

A bill passed by the Ohio House of Representatives (House Bill 23 aka the “Community Defense Act”) is currently working its way through the Ohio State Senate. This bill would force adult businesses and bars with strip shows in Ohio to close at 11 PM and, when open, to keep their dancers at least six feet away from their customers at all times - among other things. The “Citizens for Community Values” saw to it that this Bill passed the Ohio House 90-5 last year. The CCV is led by President Phil Burress. Mr. Burress, 60, claims that for 25 years, his waking hours were dominated by the need to view pornography. It destroyed his ability to be a loving husband, cost him financially and kept him emotionally estranged from people who should have been close. He calls himself a porn addict. “It consumed my life. It was my hidden secret,” he says. The twice-divorced Cincinnati native claims that if not regulated, “sexually dysfunctional males and the sexually addicted will frequent these places.”

Mr. Burress met his third wife Vickie at an anti-pornography conference.  She says she understands pornography’s destructive power and why her husband must abstain from exposure to such materials. For that reason, she watches adult videos and reads adult magazines, then writes summaries for her husband so he can speak to groups, lobby legislators and persuade prosecutors. 

Watching adult videos, reading adult magazines… writing “summaries.” Nice work if you can get it, huh Vickie?