Last week, the Pitch had an article about the troubles of Erotic City. If you’re not familiar with it, Erotic City is the adult novelty shop and strip club in Blue Summit, a little unincorporated section of Jackson County near Independence, Missouri. The owners closed the strip club and 26 adult video booths in February due to new county regulations of adult businesses.
I read the new ordinance (section 43), and if Erotic City wants to reopen its video booths, it looks like they’ll have to jump through some serious hoops. Part 4321.1 of the ordinance says the business owner must:
Ensure that each motion picture arcade booth shall have at least one side which is completely open to adjacent public rooms or adjacent hallways…
Yes, you read that right – NO DOORS. What’s the point of going to a booth if you can’t jack off in private? Well, according to the new rules, you can’t even do that. Part 4321.10 of the ordinance says that a business owner must:
Ensure and prevent any person occupying a motion picture arcade booth from engaging in any “specified sexual activities” or causing any bodily disharge of semen… while insde the motion picture arcade booth…
I’m not making this up. A customer could go into a video booth, but if he got caught with his pants down, a staff member would need to stop the one-man action. So instead of just saying that Erotic City can’t have video booths at all, Jackson County passes rules that make the adult booths so unappealing that most people wouldn’t want to use them.
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