[www.dailypress.com]- The traveling Sex Workers’ Art Show wasn’t quite greeted with the southern hospitality Williamsburg is known for Monday when it returned to the College of William and Mary’s campus for two performances.

The art show — which features strippers, porn stars and prostitutes performing written or musical numbers about their work — was welcomed by a group of protesters and outspoken local residents who were against the show being held at the university and in Williamsburg.

The protest is something that the sex workers, who have held shows at the university for the past four years, have come to expect and in many ways accept.

But what the performers wouldn’t accept was some restrictive conditions the university tried to impose in their contract.

Representatives from the art show, along with the American Civil Liberties Union, challenged William and Mary’s restrictions and just before the show won the right to have a question-and-answer period with the audience without a moderator, to sell merchandise in Commonwealth Auditorium where the show was being held and to videotape performances, all of which the university tried to restrict.