I saw bike ride naked through Garden City on the Green Belt to celebrate this distinction.

It’s pretty disappointing to find ourselves in the second tier.. maybe with some concerted effort we can improve. Off to do my part.

Also note that San Francisco (often touted by locals as a den of iniquity) is ranked 23rd (12 steps “cleaner” than Boise). Porcupine, given the way the magazine collected its data it might be hard to isolate individual cities from the Boise MSA (the geographical area that it most likely sampled). The Boise MSA covers all of Boise, Garden City, Meridian, and parts of Nampa. But, since such a standard sampling criteria would be used universally (for all the cities cited in the article) it’s kind of irrelevant whether Garden City (or Meridian) is included in the area. What those of use who live in the Boise MSA can take from this is our relative ranking among other cities. I tend to agree that this represents a general closed-mindedness to sex in our area — not, as some might offer, an open and freer attitude to human sexuality. If, as a state, we were more capable of speaking openly about human sexuality I imagine the legislature wouldn’t have had any problem authorizing a bill to Add The Words in the last session — keeping in mind that authorizing a bill doesn’t mean that one agrees with the bill’s content. We seem constitutionally incapable of acting like adults when it comes to sexuality — that’s what I take from this ranking.