Sex show
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A sex show is a form of live
Content
A performance can include actual or simulated autoerotic acts and/or sexual activity with another performer. The performance can be in a theater style, or it can be in a peep show style. An increasingly popular form of sex show is a webcam performance in which the viewer is able to view and interact with webcam models in real time.
Sex shows are distinguished from entertainment such as
Locations
In Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s, during the second presidency of Fulgencio Batista, there were semi-legal sex shows and live pornographic theaters, such as the Shanghai Theater and the Tokyo Cabaret.[3] The English novelist Graham Greene, writing in his autobiography Ways of Escape, described "the Shanghai Theatre where for one dollar and twenty-five cents one could see a nude cabaret of extreme obscenity with the bluest of blue films in the intervals".[4]
During the 1960s and 1970s the
Around the Reeperbahn, the red-light district of Hamburg, several sex theatres (Salambo, Regina, Colibri, Safari) were once located in the Große Freiheit ("Great Freedom") street. They showed live sex acts on stage, but by 2007 the Safari was the only live sex theatre left in Germany,[8] and that closed in 2013.[9]
In the
In Thailand, locations like
Legality
Sex shows are subject to varying laws such as licensing requirements and locations are subject to local zoning regulations.[15] Some jurisdictions regard a sex show as prostitution.[16] The content of a sex show may also be subject to national and local obscenity and other laws. Some areas allow striptease, but no sexual activity, others may allow only simulated sexual activity or autoerotic activity, while others allow anything that is legal in recorded pornography to be performed live.[citation needed] Generally, as of 2010, autoerotic activity is the most common legally-available kind of live sexual activity.[citation needed] In some cities and countries throughout the world, live sexual activity between multiple performers is legal. Webcam performances are largely unregulated.
See also
References
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- ^ "Death of the Reeperbahn: Hamburg's streets of shame". The Independent. 21 March 2008.
- ^ Schaefer, Daniel (5 February 2014). "Kiezclub Safari schließt nach 50 Jahren seine Türen" [Neighborhood Club Safari Closes its Doors after 50 Years]. Hamburger Abendblatt (in German).
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- ^ Pringels, Djanlissa (2 September 2019). "A Night with the Couple Who've Been Having Sex on Stage for the Past 16 Years". Vice.
- ^ Sanders-McDonagh (2016), pp. 9–10.
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- ^ E.g., in the United Kingdom, sex establishments require a Sex Establishment Licence Archived 2010-11-19 at the Wayback Machine from the City Council under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982, and a premises licence under the Licensing Act 2003.
- ^ news.com.au: Coffee shop girls face charges over sex shows February 08, 2010