SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Kevin and Sandra Otterson didn’t rob any houses, didn’t sell any meth, didn’t puke on anybody’s front lawn, didn’t TP any cacti, and didn’t scare any horses when they lived in Scottsdale, AZ — but they apparently left a lasting impression on their neighbors.The couple moved to Oregon two years ago, but are considering a move back. When word of a possible return made its way to their ex-neighbors, The Arizona Republic claims they sprang into action; not to prepare a welcoming committee, but to brainstorm ways to keep them out of their high-priced part of town, regardless of their ability to pay.
The Otterson’s run the popular adult website Wifey’s World, something residents of their old north Scottsdale neighborhood apparently find intolerable. Residents of the area have begun receiving postal mail claiming a desire to protect the desert paradise from the couple known as Hubby and Wifey to the online erotic community.
Of concern to the activist minded members of the neighborhood are possible consequences that could befall the area if the couple returns and conducts their eight-year-old web based business in their home. So worried are some of the locals that at least one has begged the city itself to bar the Otterson’s from moving back.
Hubby Otterson says he understands where the citizens’ concerns are coming from, but believes they are unnecessary.
Although the mailer, which urged recipients to contact the Scottsdale Citizen and Neighborhood Resources agency and register their concerns, suggested otherwise, Otterson insists that “There is no studio going in,” he assures. “I’ve never had a studio.”
He also insists that, contrary to other false claims in the mailer, his life is pretty much like anyone else’s. The site only contains footage of the married couple’s antics and so, he explains, claims that they “hang out with this porn element” and will have porn folk in their home are “complete nonsense.”
The glossy mailer sent out by a previously unknown group calling itself the Northeast Valley Coalition Against Pornography, warned that “In order to protect your neighborhood and your children, it is imperative that you take action now.”
As it stands now, the Otterson’s purchased a $456,000 property in the high brow Ancala subdivision last March, with the intention of having a home build there. Although plans have been filed by the couple’s architect, nothing is likely to happen for months, according to the city.
Judy Register, manager of Citizens and Neighborhood Resources, says that since there is no law against operating Web-based adult business from one’s home, there is nothing that can be done to stop the couple from living wherever they wish. “We cannot take any action unless there is indeed some illegal activity,” she explains.
The mailer may have backfired in some cases. The Arizona Republic quotes resident Michael Craig as saying that only one thing about the flier offended him, and that was having someone suggest that they had the right to control other people’s actions within the privacy of their own home.
“Let me wish you continued luck and success in your business,” Craig wrote to the Ottersons in a note he also sent to the city. “And don’t let other people stick their noses in it, unless they want to pony up the monthly fee to watch.
