Iowa- Everyone who thumbed through the “Iowa Nights” magazines at various interstate rest areas had the same reaction, last week. “It’s nudity and suggestive things that young children shouldn’t see.” said Jan Honeywell, a traveler of Missouri Valley.

On Wednesday, the magazine editor and publisher re-stocked his free publication and defended it.

Brad Mondahl said, “(People) can see just as much skin, if not more, at a public beach than (they) can in the magazine.”

Mondahl also presented a new version of the full-color publication, which promotes strip clubs across the midwest. “Midwest Nights,” Mondahl said, has been “tamed down” on purpose.

“That was our decision to tame it down just a little bit… to make maybe some more people a little bit more happier with the magazine.”

Iowa’s rest stop administrator isn’t happy with the magazine, but he does not stop there. Steve McMenamin said he’s tired of having to deal with a growing number of magazine dispensers, which he said clutter Iowa rest areas.

“We looked at that, as far as what it costs us to put up with that, as far as we have to move snow around it.” Judges have consistently ruled that rest area publications are protected as free speech, under the constitution.

Mondahl said his particular magazine needs special protection from religious groups, which, he said, steal bundles of “Midwest Nights” and replace them with religious pamphlets. “You take one magazine and throw it away, that’s fine.” said Mondahl. “You take a bundle of ’em and throw it away, you know, I mean that’s destruction of property.”

Mondahl said, when it comes to public property, parents should keep an eye on their children. “You know, if they don’t like it, don’t pick it up.”