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palominorn
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Posted - Jul 22 2013 : 1:28PM
in a society with porn everywhere, MMA fighting available live, video games like mortal kombat and call of duty, interesting that (even throughout the world) live sex is so taboo....
hoochimama
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Posted - Jul 22 2013 : 1:30PM
pat362
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Posted - Jul 22 2013 : 8:25PM
^Maybe you know this but can a man and woman have sex in a club in front of a crowd? If yes then I don't know what the Op is talking about but if not then maybe that's what he's saying.
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Posted - Jul 22 2013 : 8:40PM

During the 70s both NYC and San Francisco had live sex shows. In fact several pornstars from that era had daytime jobs performing live sex shows (e.g. Juliet "Aunt Peg" Anderson, Marilyn Chambers, Sharon Mitchell, Samantha Fox, and Kelly Nichols just to name a few). Marilyn Chambers used to perform at the Mitchell Brothers Theater and one of her shows was actually filmed and released as a porn movie. In Beyond DeSade/Never A Tender Moment she does a fisting peep show with a young Erica Boyer. The NYC shows had people fucking on stage while guys in the audience watched.
I don't remember exactly when they were shutdown? Some of the old raincoater crowd guys probably remember. You can probably find articles and info online about it also. I think during late 70s early 80s when Ronald Reagan took over they shut them down. I remember something about NYC cleaning up Times Square and getting rid of all the porn theaters and sex shops. Off course the VCR killed a lot of that business also.
I think the SF Bay Area still has "swinger" type clubs where people hook up in public but I believe most of them are gay clubs now. I don't see why they cannot have live sex performances if they allow this? My guess is its all supply and demand. With so much porn readily available who wants to watch live performances where you cannot jerk off while watching?
hoochimama
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Posted - Jul 22 2013 : 8:42PM
Unless swinger clubs, peepshows, explicit performance art etc are made explicitly illegal then I don't see why they couldn't. I've certainly seen them in different countries(only the G/G shows are hot imo). And it's not like you can't watch live sex shows of local people on cam anyway, I really don't see how it's a taboo.
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Edited by - hoochimama on 7/22/2013 8:44:20 PM
 
zambi
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Posted - Jul 22 2013 : 9:48PM
^ They can easily make public commercial performances illegal using zoning laws and revoking permits. I think Rudy Guiliani used that to clean up Times Square in NYC when he became mayor? He also went after organized crime who ran most of those sex shops. And of course there is also obscenity charges the city, state, or feds can use. That is probably what prevents people from doing public sex performances and claiming its for "art" instead of money.
Here's a recent article mentioning Rudy's war against sex shops in NYC.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/porn-king-richard-basciano-survived-rudy-giuliani-plans-risk-article-1.319185
The Mitchell Brothers almost went bankrupt fighting these cases in court when SF went after their clubs.
Edited by - zambi on 7/22/2013 9:49:58 PM
CummingLinguist All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jul 23 2013 : 4:53PM
^ In New York under Giuliani, there was also just some low-grade intimidation.
The cops and fire department would come by just to see what was going on, and this tended to turn down the thermostat on the whole scene. Presumably these nuisance enforcements didn't directly impact the scheduled live sex shows, but they certainly affected the mood.
pat362
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Posted - Jul 23 2013 : 6:24PM
Now I'm more confused than before. Is it legal or not to show a man and a woman have sex in a strip club type establishment. I don't want info on semi-private clubs because these by their nature require some type of membership .
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Posted - Jul 23 2013 : 7:38PM
Throughout the world? You should come visit Amsterdam some time.
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Posted - Jul 23 2013 : 8:25PM
^I already know it's very common in Europe but my question is in regards to North America.
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Posted - Jul 24 2013 : 5:15AM
^I was replying to the OP, not you. The OP claims it's a taboo throughout the world.
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Posted - Jul 24 2013 : 7:01AM
Different localities have different laws, and we can't tell you about the laws in your locality.
In many US locales (including New York and San Francisco), it was either legal (or tolerated) in the 70s, and then during the 80s (the era of Reagan, the Meese Commission, the Tracy Lords incident, etc.) there was a shift in much of the US. If it legal anywhere in the US today, I don't know about it.
Technology no doubt plays a role in this as well. With the rise of VCRs, people who wanted to watch people have sex (or even just look at naked people) had the opportunity to do so at home. Strip clubs shifted more towards satisfying the desire for physical contact, and you saw lapdancing emerge as a common form of live entertainment. Back in the 70s lapdances were rare. The one place I know of that offered them often stepped over the line, and was functioning as a brothel.
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Posted - Jul 24 2013 : 7:52AM
In the early 1980s in New York Times Square you could lick a stripper/porn star/burlesque dancer's pussy for $1 and openly whack off in the front row. Oh, the good old days ...
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Posted - Jul 24 2013 : 6:40PM
^ I used to be one of those front row guys.
There was one couple that used to perform both at Show World and at the smaller places that the Show World people ran. She was blonde and a bit chubby, and he had brown hair and average build. He used to leer at the audience, and sometimes they would invite members of the audience to use a dildo on the blonde. Do you remember them?
One time I was in the front row-- a raincoater without a raincoat-- and the seat next to me was empty. The guy lifted his girl off the stage, and placed her in the empty seat, and fucked her for several minutes. I assumed that it wouldn't have been OK for me to touch her so I didn't, but they certainly didn't mind that I was touching myself. Since then I've wondered what would have happened if I tried to take it to the next level.
Either way, they were close enough for me to touch them, and anyone watching the show couldn't help but see what I was up to.
I'm not nostalgic in general, but I am deeply nostalgic for the old Times Square. Like all nostalgia, it's as much about the time and place as the fact that even if I could go back to that time and place, the person I have become is too concerned about my career and reputation to enjoy the freedom I once enjoyed.
In another thread, I discussed some other memories, involving strippers. In particular Susaye London seemed to especially enjoy seeing what her admirers were up to. In an episode of the Rialto Report, they talk about the making of Captain Lust. It turns out that Susaye (who doesn't appear in the movie but was on set) was an even bigger sex freak than I realized.
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Susaye London never did a live sex show that I saw, but she showed more love for those who showed their love to her.
Edited by - cumminglinguist on 7/24/2013 6:42:17 PM
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Posted - Jul 24 2013 : 10:05PM
Watch the classic anti-porn documentary Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography (1981) available on youtube (click the link).
I remember seeing this back in college during the late 1980s. It was intended to be an anti-porn film produced by the 19080s feminist movement. But ironically classic porn era fans loved it because it has interviews with couple stars from that era like Marc Stevens and Suze Randall. I think there is a shot of Ron Jeremy posing for Suze also? They interview Suze while she is shooting stills for Hustler magazine. Later they show Suze coating a girl's pussy with oil coated q-tip before she photographs her.
At the 25:40 mark in this movie they visit live sex show on 42nd St in NYC and interview an interracial couple (black man, white woman) who perform live sex shows. They actually show the couple having sex on stage while audience watches. The funny part is when the girl talks about how white guys love to watch her get fucked by a black guy. At 37:50 mark you see a peep show of three women having live sex.
If you ignore the feminist propaganda bullshit its actually worth watching to see what it was like back in the 70s.
You can see how sleazy these places were and why they became obsolete when home video porn biz took off. Nowadays you have live webcams. It's funny to see how this part of sex industry has evolved.
Edited by - zambi on 7/24/2013 10:06:09 PM
 
Cuddly Wombat
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Posted - Jul 25 2013 : 6:34AM
Sadly I found out about these live sex places way too late - but I was always more of a closeted VHS/Beta porn fan any way, lol.
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Posted - Jul 25 2013 : 7:26AM
^ I remember the crackdown. Cops and fire marshals started to show up with enough frequency to make the customers and girls nervous.
At the smaller club where the story I just told took place, the management posted cameras so the staff could keep an eye on the goings-on. I think I mentioned in another thread about a stripper fucking me while the rest of the audience watched. I didn't mention that before doing so, she guided me to a corner where the camera wouldn't see what we were up to.
At Show World, they put up a sign saying, "No unzipping your pants in the front row." I found this a little incongruous, as they were clearly implying that it was OK in the second row.
The crackdown was gradual. I left New York in the late 80s, and when I returned, the VCR was in its full glory, and my fear of being exposed to the world beyond Times Square had reached the point where I all but stopped going, so I didn't see how the process played out.
I also feel a need to state the obvious. In an earlier post, I mentioned Reagan, the Meese Commission, the Traci Lords affair, and the VCR as all contributing to the shift. Fear of AIDS was a a big part of it as well.
oldguy
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Posted - Jul 25 2013 : 2:09PM
Wow, those times must have been glorious for any true porn dog afficianado. There have to be underground clubs someplace in our country where this sort of thing still happens, at least I hope there are. If anyone knows about these venues please let us know so we can plan to visit those sorts of places.
And I still maintain that porn producers are missing the boat by not allowing customers to watch their filming and also joining in the process of pure screwing and masturbation and such. It would be a great way for producers to supplement their income I would think. Liability by clients could certainly be waived for the right dollar figure.
C'mon producers, help us out on this one!
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Posted - Jul 25 2013 : 10:18PM

Kink.com shoots live sex events. They have a series called "Public Disgrace" and a couple others I don't remember. Early "Public Disgrace" episodes had Steve Holmes taking euro girls out on the public streets walking them around nude and fucking them in places like under a bridge or a subway. Later episodes I think shot in SF area take pornstars to bars and have them fuck in front of the patrons. Sometimes they setup a display in some location with a BDSM audience watching. Not the same thing as the old live sex shows on stage at strip clubs.
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Posted - Jul 26 2013 : 12:00AM
I don't think there were any live sex shows in Los Angeles.
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Posted - Jul 26 2013 : 4:15AM
^^ I've looked at some of the trailers for Public Disgrace, and they look exceptionally well done.
For me, the "disgrace" aspect is a bit of a turn off. I have great admiration for what Kink seems to be doing in general, but it's not really my cup of tea.
hoochimama
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Posted - Jul 26 2013 : 9:36AM
Some chicks eat each other out in those wet-t tshirt/stripper contests. Sometimes even the host gets some action. In Europe pretty much all the porn conventions feature live sex shows, G/G, B/G or otherwise.
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Posted - Jul 26 2013 : 7:36PM
I'm not old enough but a friend with whom I work told me there used to be a BDSM live show "Belle de Jour" in NYC. According to her, you'd buy tickets for a performance, just like a theatre performance. She said the shows were completely hardcore with bondage, genital torture, golden showers (G on G) with piss swallowing and hardcore sex with oral, anal and vaginal intercourse and cum eating. Supposedly it was very well attended by not only women as well as men but also couples. In some instances an audience member was selected and participated. She specifically says she recalls a guy who two mattresses gagged and strapped to a bondage board and used him for CBT. A female was also selected and came up on stage and administered a whipping. At the end, the mistresses gave him a bound HJ and he shot off right on the stage. She's not one to BS and I believe her but maybe someone here can verify??
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Posted - Jul 27 2013 : 7:23AM
^ On three or four occasions, I went to an S&M club called "The Vault" which was also in NYC, and happened to be the setting for one of the photo shoots in Madonna's "Sex" book.
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It catered to both the hetero and gay crowd, and therefore allowed single men in (which explains why I went there but never went to Belle du Jour). As a result, a lot of the straight action involved lots of guys and one girl, or a couple with a bunch of guys standing around jerking off. The gay action was normally restricted to one room, but there were also a few tranies who would go back and forth between the gay room and the rest of the club. The main room had a lot of contraptions, and audiences would sometimes gather to watch the goings on.
Groping and jerking off were commonplace, handjobs were frequent, oral sex was rare, and the one time I saw penetrative sex, I had the strong feeling they were violating club rules. (They were hidden in a corner of the club, and there were a lot of guys watching, so any club personnel would not have seen what was happening.)
I remember watching a threesome engage in S&M play in the main room; two female doms had a guy strapped down on some sort of wooden plank so he couldn't move. He we hard as a rock, and they were teasing him by stroking his hardon with a feather, and doing other things that seemed more painful. (After watching the show, I tried pouring hot wax on myself at home-- not my cup of tea.) I didn't watch long enough to see if the guy came, but I would be very surprised if he didn't.
I was more drawn to the non-penetrative gangbangs. Like I said, I only went a couple of times, but these seemed to mainly involve groping, with the girl's boyfriend maybe eating her out. One time, guys were able to switch off, and I licked the girl's pussy for a few minutes, but this was the only time I got beyond second base.
Another time, I (along with four or five other guys) was groping a girl while her guy was licking her pussy. I told her how much I liked her tits, and she invited me to cum on them, which I did.
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Posted - Jul 27 2013 : 8:32AM
Wow, great stories about those clubs in New York back in the day, damn I wish I could have been there to watch and participate in all of those lovely proceedings.
Does anyone know of any other terrific gatherings like this, either in public or private? Sure would like to see films of this super stuff also.
And some producers of today simply must get moving on recording these sorts of wonderful proceedings that I am sure still exist today. I would think that some of this stuff is available to the general public. Or certainly should be.
And what a great vacation it would be to participate in this type action: sign me up!
 
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Posted - Jul 28 2013 : 1:20PM
^ If you are ever in San Francisco, you may want to get in contact with Kink. I don't know how they recruit their audiences for Public Disgrace, but I imagine it might just be people who want to participate.
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Posted - Jul 28 2013 : 2:21PM

1980's Live-Sex show performers in Times Square
Somebody posted earlier about http://www.therialtoreport.com. They have some great podcast interviews with long lost classic era pornstars they tracked down like George Payne. He talks about the live sex shows he used to do with Annie Sprinkle. He says they would release a movie and then to live sex shows to mimick some of the scenes. He and Annie did BDSM scenes for those infamous Avon movies he shot.
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Posted - Jul 29 2013 : 9:12AM
^ I watched the clip 3 or 4 times to try and remember exactly which theater the announcer is standing in front of. I couldn't place it.
If you notice at the 15 second mark, you get a brief glimpse of boob. In the 70s and 80s, there was a slight loosening up on broadcast TV, and they would occasionally show body parts that would be censored now.
This was rarely done gratuitously, but I remember one TV medical drama about a young woman with breast cancer. The whole thing turned out to be a long set up for the 3-second "reveal" that reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy could restore a woman to her former beauty. (She literally opened up her gown to show her boobs to the other cast members.)
I would note that it was very rare, but I was a horny teenage boy at the time, so I remember those few incidents I saw.
Edited by - cumminglinguist on 7/29/2013 8:22:43 PM
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Posted - Jul 29 2013 : 2:52PM
^ A little off topic but .. Its really crazy to think how when I was teenage kid it was a major deal just to see a nude magazine let alone a rare viewing of an actual porn movie. I remember how the newspapers had ads for live shows in the sports section. Nowadays a kid can simply get on the internet and see all kinds of really extreme hardcore porn videos. Makes you wonder if these kids will end up more warped and twisted or just desensitized to it because of that.
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Posted - Jul 29 2013 : 8:54PM
^ Returning to the topic. When I was younger, I jerked off in public a lot, and it all started with with my casting furtive glances around a porn theater before stuffing some toilet paper down my pants.
Although I enjoyed myself, and especially enjoyed jerking off during live sex shows, I don't think it's any less twisted than jerking off at home while looking at a computer.
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Posted - Jul 30 2013 : 7:50AM
^^^
Jerking off is twisted?? Not in my life it isn't, it is the next best thing to being there which we cannot always do unfortunately.
Hmm, I wonder how often I will be twisted today.
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Posted - Jun 4 2014 : 3:17AM
I wish they had porn theater locally as I would love to do that too, the local chain had all that removed as this state is very puritanical but a couple of thousand miles away in another state they do have them. Now that would be a long trip building a great deal of anticipation compared to the instantaneous PC viewing :)
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Posted - Jul 21 2014 : 7:26AM
I just listened to The Rialto Report's interview with Serena.
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They discussed her relationship with Jamie Gillis. It seems they met at Show World.
She didn't discuss the live sex shows in the interview, but she has written a book which is slated for release around Thanksgiving. I imagine it will be discussed in the book.
Unfortunately, by the time I moved to New York, Serena was basically retired from porn, and certainly wasn't doing live sex shows in New York. But I would have loved to see them perform.
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Posted - Aug 23 2014 : 1:13PM
I would love to watch men and women fuck live on stage.
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Posted - Dec 6 2014 : 7:01PM
I may be projecting back to my past, but to answer your question:
Before the VCR, most porn fans would jerk off in dark seedy theaters. This may have created an atmosphere where it didn't seem that outrageous to jerk off to a live show. Now that people have the option of watching people have sex in the privacy of their own homes, the appeal of live shows is reduced.
Nowadays, most strip clubs are not about voyeurism, but about lap dances and other forms of physical contact. The girls earn tips during their shows, but it is mainly a way for them to advertise their lap dances.



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