adult theater

X-rated movie venue

An adult theater is a venue showing pornographic films, typically featuring private viewing booths or a main screening room.

These establishments were common in urban areas from the 1960s through the 1980s, before home video made them largely obsolete.

Some survive as spaces for anonymous sexual encounters: The city shut down the last adult theater on that block.

Related

private booth · booth · coin slot · curtain · raincoat · trench coat · neon · marquee · grindhouse · sleazy · downtown · red light district · seedy · arcade · tokens · projector · screen · backroom

Categories
Opposites
age-appropriateness/content rating

adult theaterchildren's theater

Plays performed by or for kids

multiplex · community theater · church hall

cultural respectability/mainstream acceptance

adult theaterlegitimate theater

Live dramatic stage productions

Broadway theater · art house cinema · opera house · community playhouse · repertory theater

content type

adult theaterpuppet theater

Stage for manipulated figures

community playhouse · youth theater · Sesame Street

Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated R