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PUBLIC
HEALTH
The unprotected sex common to cabarets,
massage parlors, and peep show booths in adult
bookstores is a breeding ground for a myriad of
sexually transmitted diseases. The documentation
below provides a sample of the public health risks
associated with "adult" businesses.
For more information, see chapter
1.3 of our manual.
SUPREME COURT
LOCAL ORDINANCES
Madison
County, Illinois
The use of booths, rooms or cubicles
in an Adult Business can, by reason or their design
and intended use, facilitate the spread of sexually
transmitted diseases (both fatal and non-fatal).
Insofar as the County has a substantial government
interest in protecting the public health, safety
and welfare of its citizens and all persons within
the County, the following standards have been
propounded to eliminate the possibility of infection
by contagious sexually transmitted diseases.
Maricopa
County, Arizona
The Board of Supervisors finds that
individual and interactive sexual activities in
adult video facilities pose a risk of sexually
transmitted disease, especially AIDS, and that
the booth configuration options of the ordinance
will reduce that risk. The Board of Supervisors
finds that the harmful secondary effects of adult
oriented businesses are more pronounced when conducted
continuously or during late night hours.
ARTICLES
Peep
Show Booths a Menace to Public Health - The
July 1997 edition of the Obscenity Law Bulletin
contains quotations from more than 20 court cases
that demonstrate why video booths in sex businesses
foster crime and spread disease.
"Glory
Holes" Spell Death by AIDs for Girlfriend
of Peep Booth Patron - A woman tells how
a friend died of AIDS because of a boyfriend's
affinity for unprotected sex through "glory
holes" in peep show booths of adult bookstores.
LINKS
ObscenityCrimes.org
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