5/10/2023 0 Comments Right-Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin![]() ![]() In the late 1970s I led groups of suburban women on tours through Show World and other Forty-Second Street hot spots, exposing them, in the interests of consciousness-raising, to pornography's various genres: Nazi porn, nurse porn, lesbian porn, bondage porn-none of it terribly imaginative. But Peepland (MULTI-VIDEO BOOTHS! NUDE DANCING GIRLS!) still reigns, and Show World, a glitzy sex emporium, still anchors the west end of the block, right around the corner from The New York Times. New sex businesses-yuppie topless bars and downscale lap-dancing joints (don't ask) -are prospering elsewhere in Manhattan. What city officials call "sex-related uses"-triple-X video (formerly book) stores, peep shows, and topless bars-have declined in number since their heyday in the 1970s, and much of the block between Seventh and Eighth avenues is boarded up, a hostage to development. Despite efforts to redevelop it, New York's Forty-second Street retains its underground appeal, especially for consumers of pornography. ![]()
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