Adult Theater

Posted by: pornlover

Adult Theater - 03/09/06 12:56 AM

Before VCR was invented, do Adult Theaters really show XXX rated movies in their theaters? Usually, how do the audiences control themselves while watching? Were they usually straight men or gay men?

Byron
Posted by: faceblaster

Re: Adult Theater - 03/09/06 01:26 AM

Yes, they were films, shown on big screens via real/reel projectors. Some were in full size raked theaters and some were more like storefronts with theater seats on a level floor. The audience controlled themselves except for a few single men in the front rows making the floors sticky. These are the original "raincoaters". I don't know if they were gay or straight, but you did not see public sex in the theater during the movies.The big 70s movies attracted a lot of trendy couples and curious suburbanites. I saw Deep Throat, Misty Beethoven, and Behind the Green Door in very mixed crowds. Lots of what we now call yuppies in the seats.
Much, much later....after the porn theaters had died-out...you saw some couples doing public sex stuff in a few of the remaining theaters. There were several in the south that still had an active swinger scene as late as a few years ago. There are some yahoo groups and stuff about that.
Posted by: asdf

Re: Adult Theater - 03/09/06 02:58 AM

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Before VCR was invented, do Adult Theaters really show XXX rated movies in their theaters? Usually, how do the audiences control themselves while watching? Were they usually straight men or gay men?

Byron




there's an adult theater in portland called the jefferson theater, it's a real piece of work. once ceara and i went in on a lark when we were imbibing. i uh briefly closed my eyes for a couple seconds, then we noticed that they were moving in on us like so much carrion and we got creeped out and left. the porn was boring but the guys seemed gangrapingly straight, maybe they just liked to mingle. do you think if one asks another for a cigarette outside afterwards the eye contact last a little too long? do they get competitive? do they ever organize events or fundraise for whore timeshares?
Posted by: pitchshifty

Re: Adult Theater - 03/09/06 09:42 AM

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there's an adult theater in portland called the jefferson theater, it's a real piece of work. once ceara and i went in on a lark when we were imbibing. i uh briefly closed my eyes for a couple seconds, then we noticed that they were moving in on us like so much carrion and we got creeped out and left. the porn was boring but the guys seemed gangrapingly straight, maybe they just liked to mingle. do you think if one asks another for a cigarette outside afterwards the eye contact last a little too long? do they get competitive? do they ever organize events or fundraise for whore timeshares?




I used to live like 2-3 blocks away from there and from what I remember the outside of the building was constantly littered with used condoms and creepy old men who propositioned anything with a pussy that happened to walk by. Some friends and I went on an expedition there as well one night after some drinking, and yeah, it was quite an experiance. Mid-nineties crapass feature porn with a ton of leering weirdos and and overall vibe of desperation tinged with a hint of potential gangrape. There are couches on the stage where the screen is so I think it's like a makeshift swinger thing, some other friends of mine went there once and witnessed a shot-out old whore who was dragged in there by her husband being gangbanged within an inch of her life by every single patron in the place. I think they have a gay theater as well upstairs, god only knows what goes on there.

I was googling for a picture of the place because mere words really do not do it justice, and found this. Sounds pretty accurate to me.
Posted by: todhunter

Re: Adult Theater - 03/09/06 10:31 AM

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Before VCR was invented, do Adult Theaters really show XXX rated movies in their theaters? Usually, how do the audiences control themselves while watching? Were they usually straight men or gay men?




There was a chain of adult theatres called "Pussycat" in L.A. and they maintained strict decorum standards, like in most theatres until relatively recently. Ushers would walk the aisles every so often, and you would no sooner whack off there than you would at your neighborhood mainstream theatre. (And yes, there are exceptions, we've all cut a hole in the bottom of a popcorn tub or had a surreptitious quickie but that happens everywhere.) The company was run by a guy who kept certain rules, including one that said that nothing tangible like a leaflet or flyer would ever be available in Pussycat Theatres because it could wind up a piece of litter and get picked up by a kid, which is bad for everybody.

When watching porn became a solitary pursuit, attitudes changed. It wasn't "going to the movies" any more, it was "get yourself turned on so you can whack off." Attitudes have also changed in mainstream, where you go into a movie theatre and half the audience is talking at full voice volume to the other half.

--t
Posted by: Jack Mehoff

Re: Adult Theater - 03/09/06 11:33 AM

I'm suprised there isn't an XXX-rated theatre on every corner in America.

Here there are still a few around in the CBD.

I went to one with 2 friends like 5 years ago to see what it was like. Once was more than enough.

It was a quiet night. We went in, they had some porn you could get on DVD anywhere showing on a big screen.

It was dark. I felt odd about sitting in the seats. Every once in a while some chick would come out and do a striptease on the stage.

Men kept coming and going from the door which we figured led to the toilet.

The worst bit was I looked up at the wall and there were white splatters up to about 3 metres all over all the walls.

There was a seedy little porno store attached. They had private booths with little red curtains in another area.

We went in a booth each, it fucking stank like stale man jam and there was a bin full of tissues. The glass between us and the show was so filthy I couldn't even tell what was going on.

Now I'm quite happy to watch porn, I don't feel ashamed or guilty about it [except maybe for the girls, but that's another story], but that place was seedy as all hell. Never again.


I also stumbled across some gay American guy's blog once while googling for female sex story blogs [yes, really!], apparently its all the rage, and he had all these little vignettes of how he goes to adult cinemas and fucks men.

So perhaps adult theatres are like the toilet culture, straight men go there to fuck guys. Go figure.


Adult cinemas =
Posted by: weeeee

Re: Adult Theater - 03/10/06 07:16 PM

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Before VCR was invented, do Adult Theaters really show XXX rated movies in their theaters? Usually, how do the audiences control themselves while watching? Were they usually straight men or gay men?

Byron




there's an adult theater in portland called the jefferson theater, it's a real piece of work. once ceara and i went in on a lark when we were imbibing. i uh briefly closed my eyes for a couple seconds, then we noticed that they were moving in on us like so much carrion and we got creeped out and left. the porn was boring but the guys seemed gangrapingly straight, maybe they just liked to mingle. do you think if one asks another for a cigarette outside afterwards the eye contact last a little too long? do they get competitive? do they ever organize events or fundraise for whore timeshares?




You know, even though they were playing straight porn and we almost got hella molested in our sleep I think the crowd there is primarily HOMO. When I worked at the porn shop I had one of my few straight customers who would come in everyday waiting for chicks to come in looking for action wack-off boothes. Needless to say this guy was a real winner and got laid all the time. Anyway, me being the only thing with tits and a pulse he'd stand there talk my ear off while he loitered and ate his peanut butter and jelly sandwich (he packed one for lunch everytime). He told me plenty of awesome stories about trying to get action at Jefferson Theatre, but instead always having to battle with a sausage fest of horny fags constantly winking and gesturing him to sit next to them. But apparently the 2 or 3 times he HAD seen a willing lady go in there it was like, a 10 man cock slam, or a bakers dozen, or a 65 guy cream pie.... Basically like a lot of fat gross dudes on one uggo with an extra hole.
Posted by: Jack Mehoff

Re: Adult Theater - 03/11/06 10:36 AM

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You know, even though they were playing straight porn and we almost got hella molested in our sleep I think the crowd there is primarily HOMO. When I worked at the porn shop I had one of my few straight customers who would come in everyday waiting for chicks to come in looking for action wack-off boothes. Needless to say this guy was a real winner and got laid all the time. Anyway, me being the only thing with tits and a pulse he'd stand there talk my ear off while he loitered and ate his peanut butter and jelly sandwich (he packed one for lunch everytime). He told me plenty of awesome stories about trying to get action at Jefferson Theatre, but instead always having to battle with a sausage fest of horny fags constantly winking and gesturing him to sit next to them. But apparently the 2 or 3 times he HAD seen a willing lady go in there it was like, a 10 man cock slam, or a bakers dozen, or a 65 guy cream pie.... Basically like a lot of fat gross dudes on one uggo with an extra hole.





There are so many elements to that I don't even know where to start.

Entertaining retelling, amusing, funny, but oh so
Posted by: jaime

Re: Adult Theater - 03/11/06 01:09 PM

There was a theater in the bay area called the palm that was similar to the jefferson. There were actually quite a few women that would frequent the place. If you didn't have a male escort that could control things it basically turned into gangrapes "r" us.
Posted by: JRV

Re: Adult Theater - 03/12/06 12:41 AM

The last drive-in theater in central TX survived into the first few years of the 1980s showing hardcore porn.
Posted by: xvod

Adult Theater Idea - 03/12/06 08:49 AM

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There was a chain of adult theatres called "Pussycat" in L.A. and they maintained strict decorum standards, like in most theatres until relatively recently. Ushers would walk the aisles every so often, and you would no sooner whack off there than you would at your neighborhood mainstream theatre.




Hmm, you know... this gives me a great idea! Why not open an xxx-theater where companies can come in and premier their new releases? I'm talking do the whole the red carpet thing - since the high-budget feature is on the way back and existing movie venues are crashing and burning. What do you think? Would something like this fly???
Posted by: c62

Re: Adult Theater - 03/12/06 09:26 AM

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There was a chain of adult theatres called "Pussycat" in L.A. and they maintained strict decorum standards, like in most theatres until relatively recently.




There was a "Pussycat" theater in San Diego(National City) right across from a club I used to go to when I was in the Navy, looking for WestPac Widows. Anyways the Nasty City errrrr National CIty council wanted it torn down to put up something nice, cause it was kind of an eye soar. Whoever owned it wouldn't sell, so the city kept upping the ante. Finally they sold at $1.5 million, you wouldn't believe how small the plot of land it sat on was. The land itself was worth maybe $250K, at most.
Posted by: Dane

Re: Adult Theater Idea - 03/12/06 09:39 AM

I know there was one in either oakland or berkley that i read about on a hooker forum and the johns would take them there to the private booths for their date
Posted by: Anonymous

Re: Adult Theater - 03/12/06 09:40 AM

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Before VCR was invented, do Adult Theaters really show XXX rated movies in their theaters? Usually, how do the audiences control themselves while watching? Were they usually straight men or gay men?




There was a chain of adult theatres called "Pussycat" in L.A. and they maintained strict decorum standards, like in most theatres until relatively recently. Ushers would walk the aisles every so often, and you would no sooner whack off there than you would at your neighborhood mainstream theatre. (And yes, there are exceptions, we've all cut a hole in the bottom of a popcorn tub or had a surreptitious quickie but that happens everywhere.) The company was run by a guy who kept certain rules, including one that said that nothing tangible like a leaflet or flyer would ever be available in Pussycat Theatres because it could wind up a piece of litter and get picked up by a kid, which is bad for everybody.

When watching porn became a solitary pursuit, attitudes changed. It wasn't "going to the movies" any more, it was "get yourself turned on so you can whack off." Attitudes have also changed in mainstream, where you go into a movie theatre and half the audience is talking at full voice volume to the other half.

--t




didnt they just sue the pussykat dolls recently?
Posted by: RenfieldGyps

Re: Adult Theater - 03/12/06 09:59 AM

There are still a few in New York City.