In 1990, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld “the constitutionality of a City of Minneapolis, Minnesota ordinance which: (1) prohibited the construction, use, design, or operation of a commercial building for the purpose of engaging in, or permitting persons to engage in, sexual activities which include high risk sexual conduct;[Footnote 3] […]
Viewing Booths
Law Article: “Preventing the Secondary Effects of Adult Entertainment Establishments: Is Zoning the Solution?”
Dana M. Tucker makes health, safety and economic arguments for regulating adult entertainment establishments in “Preventing the Secondary Effects of Adult Entertainment Establishments: Is Zoning the Solution?”, 12 Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 383 (1997). The bracketed numbers refer to footnotes.Health impact of porn shops with viewing booths (pages 414-417)One of the adverse […]
Cleveland: Cameras Put in Viewing Booths To Deter Sexual Activity
June 11, 2005, as reported by WKYC, a Cleveland TV station: “Two years ago, unprotected male on male sex was running rampant in the back room video booths. “Channel 3 News was tipped off about the open sex by a local schoolteacher, who claimed her boyfriend told her he had unprotected sex with over 100 […]
What They’re Saying about Capital Video’s Kittery Store at Squirt.org (explicit)
Capital Video’s Amazing.net porn shop in Kittery, Maine has been a hot topic of conversion on squirt.org, “your neighborhood cruising guide”. Squirt’s profile of the site gives directions and “hours” of 10am – 1am. Who goes there? “Married guys looking for head and those who provide it.” Here are some (graphic) comments about the site […]
What You Can Expect to Find in Your Average Peep Show Booth (explicit)
From the report of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography (1986). The bracketed numbers refer to footnotes in the report. Inside the booths the viewer may see approximately two minutes of the movie for twenty-five cents.[2159] As the number of sexually explicit scenes or diversity of sexual acts increase, the viewing time decreases.[2160] Tokens or […]
The Condition of Houston Peep Show Booths
From the report of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography (1986): As part of the public hearings conducted in Houston, Texas, the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography toured three of the fifty “adults only” pornographic outlets operating in that city. The Commissioners were accompanied on this tour by several detectives from the Houston City Police […]
Peep Shows: “Generally unsanitary”, “frequent sexual activity is apparent”; Porn industry connected to organized crime
From the report of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography (1986): …Increasingly, however, the peep show, often combined with an outlet for the sale of pornographic books and magazines, is a major form of meeting consumer demand. The typical peep show is located on the premises of an “adults only” establishment selling large numbers of […]