Each week Northside Opinions asks readers to comment on a topic in the news. Today, we feature responses to the question: Should the Love Shack leave town?

Background: The owner of the Love Shack has been found in contempt of court for continuing to operate the sexually oriented business in the city of Johns Creek.

City officials have argued the site of the Love Shack is not zoned for adult businesses and that the owner should move, change the store's inventory or close. The owner has declined to change course.

What should the Love Shack do? What should the city do?

Keep Johns Creek 'pure, sexless' like 16th century

The Love Shack must shut down. It is a bad influence on our young women. The products they sell are mostly for the enhancement of women's sexual pleasure, bought by men who hope that if their wives enjoy sex more they would be more excited about having sex with them.

The truth is that post menopausal women do not enjoy sex with men all that much. And remember that Queen Elizabeth of England in the 16th Century forbade members of her court from having orgasms. She declared that orgasms were the exclusive domain of royalty. She knew that if the little people had orgasms they would run amok and give her problems. Always demanding more.

Same with the Love Shack. Let's keep Johns Creek pure and sexless for the women of quality who live here.

LORI DAWSON, Johns Creek

Love Shack should go

Shut it down. It has been obvious from the start that Mr. [John] Cornetta has delighted in sticking his thumb in the eye of Johns Creek residents. The chip on his shoulder is a mile wide. He's had no desire to create good will within the community.

Does he have a right to operate his business? Absolutely yes. Did he pick the correct location? Absolutely not. There are more appropriate locations for an adult business. Across from a dance school is not one of them.

The law is on our side, so say bye-bye.

SUE HAGGERTY, Johns Creek

No reason for adult store to close

I live a bit over one mile from the Love Shack in Johns Creek. I've seen the area where it is located languish for more than five years. [Starting out with] a single large "beverage" warehouse, the area expanded to several other warehouse-style buildings and a couple of fast-food restaurants, off of main thoroughfares, nondescript in appearance.

A few years ago, a small apartment complex was dropped into an undeveloped piece of land, and today another warehouse building is being built next door to that complex. For anyone to suggest that the Love Shack has come in and detracted from the "neighborhood" is ridiculous.

While I live close to the Johns Creek Love Shack, by definition I am only a few miles from the Norcross store as well. I've asked several public officials and several contributors to the AJC to publish details on the crime rate both before and since these two stores opened. I'm pretty sure there hasn't been a major crime wave ignited by the presence of these businesses. Yet no one has taken the trouble to gather and publish the data.

I believe our elected mayor has taken the wrong side of this issue and cannot go back, unfair as it is to the business involved. It seems more of a personal conflict between [Mayor Mike] Bodker and [store owner John] Cornetta. Fortunately for the mayor, his pen writes the rules, so he has been able to define the competition to his advantage. I'd like to see a vote on the subject, and encourage anyone who has not driven past this business to do so before taking a position.

Lastly, I have not spent a single dollar at this new store, don't know anyone involved in the business, and have nothing to benefit from taking my position other than to see the Johns Creek tax base expanded.

SCOTT MADIGAN, Johns Creek