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Let Them Ogle Cake

Being on the cutting edge of culture is never easy. Especially when you're in Sugar Land.

But for three months Charlotte Daingerfield and daughter Jackie Spears have been fearlessly bringing Art to that famished land, in the form of, among other things, penis-shaped cakes.

Nooky's Erotic Bakery offers about every racy thing you could imagine putting on a piece of dessert. And in Republican-dominated Sugar Land, the natives have gotten somewhat restless.

At least according to Susan DuQuesnay Bankston, Fort Bend County's answer to Molly Ivins. Her Web page, www.brazosriver.com, reported on a recent meeting of the county's Spirit of Freedom Republican Women, who were in a tizzy because of Nooky's. They demanded action of some sort.

"By three o'clock that day, County Commissioner Andy Meyers, a man far too obsessed with other people's hoochie-koochie activities to have much of his own, was issuing press releases…[contending] Nooky's is a sexually oriented business," Bankston wrote.

Meyers wouldn't answer our phone calls, so we asked the gals at Nooky's if they'd been raided lately. Safe so far, Daingerfield says.

"All these poor little ladies are all a-twitter," she said. "One came in three or four times. She comes in, frowns, looks at stuff and shakes her head but doesn't buy anything. I think she's trying to get a petition."

Three or four times? She knows pornography when she sees it, but you have to be certain.

Not all the locals are upset, though. Daingerfield noted that 80 percent of her customers are from Sugar Land.

"A lot of people see the sign as they drive by, slam on the brakes and come on in," she said.

None, so far, with petitions.