Pastors, claiming to represent more than 100 000 Christians, want the "filthy" sex industry banished to the Karoo.
But an organisation representing sex workers has called for sex shops, massage parlours and the like to be treated like "any other commercial business".
This was just one of the emotive exchanges on Monday at a public hearing into an adult entertainment policy for Cape Town, which could see special areas or red-light districts being allocated for the sex industry.
The unicity, an amalgamation of seven previous administrations, is drafting a first citywide land-use management policy which includes proposals around zoning land for the sex industry's sex shops, strip clubs, escort agencies, massage parlours, adult film theatres, steam baths and (technically illegal) brothels.
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'Run shuttles to the Karoo for those who require it' Church presentations included references to the evil of "glory holes" (a hole used for homosexual sex in steam rooms), peep booths, coprophilia (a fetish involving human excrement) and sex with many anonymous partners.
Making a guest appearance was American rock weirdo Marilyn Manson, whose picture Cape Town resident Angela Manning handed in as part of a presentation on the dangers of pornography and prostitution.
A glaring omission was any presentation by sex workers or owners of sex shops or massage parlours.
Errol Naidoo, of His People Church, ended his presentation about the "evils of pornography and sex shops" by saying: "If I had my way, (they would be accommodated) nowhere in Cape Town. Run shuttles to the Karoo for those who require it. It harms men. Men become addicted to rape."
Naidoo said His People's views on the "selling of filth and smut" were shared by 135 Western Cape churches that formed part of the Transformation Movement and represented 120 000 Christians.
A light industrial zone
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