Adult movie theater

Adult movie theaters show pornographic films primarily for either a respectively heterosexual or homosexual audience.

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 simply tolerated by the management.

Before the VCR and later, the Internet, a movie theatre or cinema house was often the only location where people could see hardcore erotic films.

The spread of home videos and later of Internet pornography has led to a drastic reduction in the number of adult theatres.

Local governments commonly prohibit adult theatres from operating within a certain distance of residential areas, parks, churches and/or schools.

[11] Before Rudolph Giuliani became mayor, Times Square was New York City's largest district of its "adult" businesses.

An adult video arcade is a pornographic movie viewing area where masturbation is tolerated and expected (and sometimes openly encouraged).

It is almost always attached to a sex shop or an adult book store, where magazines, movies, and sexual aids are sold.

An arcade, which is a type of peep show, consists of typically a dozen or more private (or sometimes semi-private) viewing booths, containing a video monitor, a panel of controls, and a seat.

Still, a system required a certain amount of maintenance – breakdowns needed to be repaired, and there were a lot of things to break – which implied good management.

[16] Generally a selection of 15 to 50 movies running in Blu-ray/DVD players is available for viewing, sometimes diverse (e.g., straight, gay, fetish), other times monotonously similar.

[20] Most adult book stores require and enforce that movies be operating at all times while arcade booths are occupied.