Houston- Near Houston’s 3rd Ward, a predominantly African American area southeast of downtown, people are becoming fed up with porn.

“It’s nothing any child should see,” complained community activist Victoria Williams.

Williams heads an organization called SISTAS, which tries to uplift inner-city youth. Their members believe porn magazines on open display in small convenience stores, are tearing young girls down.

A 3rd Ward community group wants to stamp out porn sales in the neighborhood.

“The image creates the impression that women are nothing but sex objects,” she said. “Degrading women.”

Beyond the graphic pictures are the words, which some find equally offensive.

Even the clerk where porn was for sale said she was offended.

It’s not just mom and pop operations openly displaying magazines like this. Some corporate-owned chains are doing it as well. SISTAS is demanding that they stop.

And they’ve found support at City Hall.

“It’s a bad influence on our neighborhoods, bad influence on our families and it’s a bad influence on our kids,” said City Councilman Peter Brown.

An influence members of SISTAS plan to do away with, once and for all.