This came out of Verizon’s “superpages”—an alternative to the Yellow Pages that covers three cities—so maybe that’s why they didn’t bother to think about the potential shock that people might suffer if they started randomly flipping through the book.
It had some general information about each city in the first couple pages, then went through the business listings on white pages with a gray bar on the side. Those names are in alphabetical order, whereas the yellow pages are divided into fields of business that also include some advertisements (e.g., the list of Attorneys from pages 25 through 38). It’s easy to find the categories on each page because the upper corner shows what’s included: page 214 covers “Physicians—Pipe.” If what you’re looking for fits within that spread of the alphabet, that’s the page you need to check out.
So I looked at page 1. The first word at the top ([blank]—[blank]) was “Abortion.” It clarified lower on the page that the category was actually “abortion alternatives” and wasn’t advertising abortion services or abortion referrals, but just looking at the top… wow. Now I’m afraid to look through the book anymore because I might find something like a listing on page 214 for a physician who specializes in “abortion alternative alternatives.”
