Adult Movie Video

An adult theater is a movie theater where pornographic films are shown to an adult audience. There are usually continuous showings. The movie posters in front of the theaters may not allow to show nudity.

Films and patrons

An adult movie theater shows heterosexual pornographic films and/or gay pornographic films. Even if it shows heterosexual films only it often attracts heterosexual, bisexual and homosexual male patrons, some of whom are there for casual and anonymous sex with other patrons. The overwhelming majority of customers are male.

For the patrons, rules are generally less strict regarding partial- or full-nudity and public masturbation or sex, and such behavior may be condoned explicitly or otherwise by the management. Such behavior may or may not be legal, and if not, may or may not be overlooked by local law enforcement. Certain theaters may also include a strip- or sex-show between films, or other sex industry services.

Before the VCR and, later, the Internet, a movie theater or cinema house was often the only location where the average person could see a hardcore adult film. The advent of home video led to a drastic reduction in the number of theaters.

By region

United States

The earliest adult theaters in the U.S. were in California, and showed 35mm Sexploitation films. In 1960 there existed about 20 theaters in the USA that showed adult movies exclusively. In the late 1960s and early 1970s they spread to the rest of the country. Small "storefront" theaters with only a few dozen seats sprang up. By 1970, 750 porn theaters existed in the U.S. In the 70s, theaters shifted from showing 35mm sexploitation films to more explicit 16mm "beaver" films. In the 1980s some theater owners began forming chains to cut their costs, and by 1989 the number of U.S porn theaters had fallen below 250.

Restrictions on adult theaters vary by region, and may be restricted by state, county or city regulations. Local governments commonly prohibit adult theaters from operating within a certain distance of residential areas, parks, churches and/or schools. Often adult theaters have been forced to move to the outskirts of cities in order to protect real estate prices in city centers. Renton, Washington was involved in a 1986 Supreme Court case regarding this issue. In its decision on City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc. , the Court upheld Renton's statute that no adult theater be located within 1,000 feet of a school, park, church, or residential zone; the Court rejected the theater owners' argument that the statute violated the First Amendment, because the statute did not seek to ban the existence of adult theaters outright.

The O'Farrell Theatre in San Francisco, one of America's oldest and best known adult-entertainment establishments, opened as an adult movie theater in 1969.

The Bijou Theater in Chicago is the longest running gay adult theater and sex club in the United States.

The Pussycat Theater chain operated 47 porn theaters at its height.

Something Weird videos sells DVDs of many of the movies that were previously played at porn theaters in the 1970s in the U.S.

See also

  • Adult video arcade
  • Casual sex
  • Dogging (sexual slang)
  • Fellatio
  • Gay bathhouse

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Phillip Brian Harper (1999). Private affairs: critical ventures in the culture of social relations . NYU Press. pp. 77–82. ISBN 0814735940 . http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5n1A879-MJIC .  
  2. ^ Lap Victory. How a DA's decision to drop prostitution charges against lap dancers will change the sexual culture of S.F. -- and, perhaps, the country. SF Weekly, 8 September 2004
  3. ^ Slade, p.1067
  4. ^ Linda Williams (2004). Porn studies . Duke University Press. pp. 370–400. ISBN 0822333120 . http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rdWZ8JD5dkkC .  
  5. ^ Slade, p.1097
  6. ^ Slade, p.1098
  7. ^ Slade, p.752
  8. ^ Thomas C. Mackey (2002). Pornography on trial: a handbook with cases, laws, and documents . ABC-CLIO. pp. 95. ISBN 1576072754 . http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5gOlF6TZedgC .  
  9. ^ U.S. v. Toushin, 714 F.Supp. 1452 at 1454 (M.D.Tenn. April 21, 1989).

References

  • Slade, Joseph W. (2001). Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide . Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0313315213 . http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Opv9nz2M5c0C .  

External links

  • Legal definitions for adult theaters from The General Laws of the State of Massachusetts , United States
  • Missouri Porn Theater Bust Targets Gays
  • A view inside of an adult theater catering to men which is also a membership "private"

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