Editing Sideshow (section)

==Decline==
[[File:Side Show gorilla poster, Florida, 1960s.JPG|thumb|left|Decaying sideshow advertisement, [[Florida]], 1966]]

Interest in sideshows declined as television made it easy (and free) to see the world's most exotic attractions. Moreover, viewing "human oddities" became distasteful as the public conscience changed, and many localities passed laws forbidding the exhibition of freaks.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fordham |first1=Brigham |title=Dangerous Bodies: Freak Shows, Expression, and Exploitation |year=2007 |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1g32z0dx |journal=UCLA Entertainment Law Review |volume=14 |issue=2 |doi=10.5070/LR8142027098 |access-date=23 February 2019|doi-access=free }}</ref> The performers often protested (to no avail) that they had no objection to the sideshow, especially since it provided not only a good income for them, but in many cases it provided their only possible job. [[Emmitt Bejano]], a man with [[lamellar ichthyosis]] who performed as “The Alligator Boy”, said: “[Sideshow work] keeps me off the relief line.”<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rivera |first=Doc |title=Percilla Bejano The Monkey Girl |url=https://www.docsmidwaycookhouse.com/historical-circus-carnival-videos/percilla-bejano-the-monkey-girl/ |url-status=live |website=Doc’s Midway Cookhouse}}</ref>