A customer and performer can mutually agree on a fee for a "private dance", which can take place in a peep show booth with a clear window and seating space for only one spectator.
Although peep show neighborhoods had approximately 16 percent more calls, the researchers concluded that the difference was not statistically significant.
[4] Regal Show World was an adult entertainment business on lower Market Street in San Francisco, California.
[12] The former Lusty Lady peep show in San Francisco, California, entered the news in 1997, when it became the first U.S. sex business to be unionized.
Female performers would stand undressed on a small semicircular or circular stage surrounded by individual booths.
After taking office as mayor in 1994, Rudy Giuliani waged a legal battle to shut down the Times Square peep shows.
[14] The former Lusty Lady peep show in Seattle, Washington, was, unlike its namesake in San Francisco, not unionized.
Similar to the Lusty Lady in San Francisco, however, the Seattle peep show was deemed an iconic local landmark by the time it finally closed in 2010.