Sex Club scares the neighbors
Until recently, the children in our quiet neighborhood played in
their yards amidst a peaceful country atmosphere. Ours is a
community where neighbors have known each other for years and some
even for decades.
Sex Club scares the neighbors
Until recently, the children in our quiet neighborhood played in their yards amidst a peaceful country atmosphere. Ours is a community where neighbors have known each other for years and some even for decades.
Just weeks ago a sexual encounter “club” known as The Forum moved onto our street. The Forum is not some small operation. It can be found on over 40 web sites nationwide and abroad. It is touted to be the leading swingers club in California and one of the top three on the West Coast. Our once-quiet street is now inundated with “red light district” traffic and strangers on their way to and from the “club.”
Many remark that we shouldn’t be concerned because the “members” drive fancy cars and come from upscale neighborhoods. The ambiance of our community has always been inviting, but does the Forum screen for sex offenders and pedophiles? I know a convicted pedophile and murderer who, after being released from jail, hosted swinger parties in his upscale Atherton home. He was arrested again on pedophilia and drug related charges. After his second release he continued hosting parties for swingers! The Forum certainly will attract this type of client, and will eventually bring criminal activity into our community.
The Forum only lets about 20 single guys into their “events,” so where do the surplus of these eager men go? Frighteningly, according to the Forum, “many single men are not successful” in their “pursuit.” Men who behave inappropriately are “in danger of being asked to leave.” Even the Forum states, “This is the number one mistake single guys make at The Forum.” Does the Forum just turn these “unsuccessful” and unacceptably behaving guys out onto our street?
It is my understanding that the owner of the house lives in Los Altos. I very much doubt he would want this kind of traffic cruising up and down his street, shining their headlights into his home as they turn around in his driveway, glimpsing into the windows of his home as they are looking for the club and who knows what else? Any sensible person should have recognized that the harmful impact on our family-oriented neighborhood would be devastating.
Every Friday and Saturday night the comfort, privacy and safety throughout our neighborhood has been greatly compromised due to the activities of The Forum. The Forum set up shop without neighborhood consent, tainting the reputation of our peaceful community and frightening the residents. A family neighborhood with children in very close proximity is an inappropriate location for a sexual encounter “club.”
Tonja Dausend
Gilroy
Loss of freedom unpatriotic
I live in Morgan Hill and have become increasingly excited about The Pinnacle, which is delivered free to my home once a week. Finally we are getting some news on a local level that gives more than the business/bureaucracy point of view.
I was very pleased to read Kate Woods’ article about the Patriot Act. Do you think we can get the Hollister City Council or the Morgan Hill City Council interested in a resolution to go against the Homeland Security Act in the same way that San Francisco and Oakland have? Do we want our librarians forced to give information about their patrons to the FBI?
I have felt for some time that I am very isolated in my political views in the South Valley and therefore go to San Jose every Friday to vigil for peace
in front of the federal building. We see the faces and read the names of every unfortunate Israeli who dies in a suicide blast, but no names and faces for the two thousand mostly innocent civilian Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli Defense Forces using our helicopters and munitions.
I have just found out about the Women in Black peace vigil that is held every Friday in Hollister and am in touch with them by e-mail. My son lives in
Hollister and intends to join the group. Maybe we aren’t so isolated as I thought.
Keep up the great work of your paper. You richly deserve the prize you
received.
Natasha Wist
Morgan Hill
