Archive Report
Archive Report
Rapid Growth in Recent Years
New Permissiveness: Boon to ’Adult’ Trade
It was noon in Washington and the usual crowd of bureaucrats, clerks and tourists filled the sidewalks near the White House. But to their normal midday activities of eating in the parks and window-shopping on the way back to work, another has been added — visiting the dozens of close-by “X-rated” movies and pornographic bookstores. For not only is the area around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue famous as the president's neighborhood, one of the city's busiest pornography markets is only a few blocks away.
In Washington, as in many other cities throughout the country, “adult” entertainment has become a growth industry, and it is growing in many directions. Once confined to relatively tame magazine stands, strip clubs ...