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24-522: [REDACTED] Look up peep show in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peep Show or Peepshow may refer to: Peep show , a live sex show or pornographic film viewed through a slot Raree show , an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a hole Music [ edit ] Peep Show (Alternative TV album) , 1987 Peep Show (Goudie album) , 2000 Peepshow (album) , by Siouxsie &

48-577: A "double in the bubble" show in which two performers worked simultaneously. During the winter of 1997 to 1998, the business had thirty-five performers. At this time, over 80% of performers there attempted to unionize and "signed union authorization cards for representation by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 790". The business was owned by Bijou Group, Inc., a privately held company in San Francisco that

72-471: A 2004 novel by Leigh Redhead Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Peep Show . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peep_Show&oldid=1162326701 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

96-556: A famous Vientiane bar during the war, featured floor shows in which women used their vaginas to smoke cigarettes and fling ping pong balls. Around the Reeperbahn , the red-light district of Hamburg , several sex theatres ( Salambo , Regina , Colibri , Safari ) were once located in the Große Freiheit ("Great Freedom") street. They showed live sex acts on stage, but by 2007 the Safari

120-427: A faux chat show segment hosted by professional wrestler Christian Other uses [ edit ] Peepshow (burlesque) , a burlesque show created by Jerry Mitchell Peepshow (comics) , a comics series by Joe Matt Peep Show (film) , a 1956 short film by Ken Russell Peep Show , a film by Noel Lawrence (as J. X. Williams ) Peepshow , a poetry collection by Valerie Grosvenor Myer Peepshow ,

144-614: A fee for a "private dance", which can take place in a peep show booth with a clear window and seating space for only one spectator. Research on peep show establishments in California examined the hypothesis that neighborhoods surrounding sex businesses such as peep show establishments and X-rated movie stores have higher rates of crime. The researchers compared 911 calls in peep show and control neighborhoods in San Diego. Although peep show neighborhoods had approximately 16 percent more calls,

168-638: A legal battle to shut down the Times Square peep shows. Following a major legal decision in Giuliani's favor in 1998, the peep shows mostly closed. The former Lusty Lady peep show in Seattle, Washington, was, unlike its namesake in San Francisco, not unionized. Similar to the Lusty Lady in San Francisco, however, the Seattle peep show was deemed an iconic local landmark by the time it finally closed in 2010. Its closing

192-667: A major part of the way in which video pornography was accessed. In 1986 a US Presidential report into pornography said that peep shows were making significant earnings which were often undeclared or untaxed, and in some US locations peep shows were subsequently suppressed. For live peep shows, booths can surround a stage upon which usually a female performer performs a striptease and sexually explicit poses. In Barcelona female performers at times also perform sexual intercourse with male performers on stage. In some cases, booths include paper towel dispensers for customers who engage in masturbation. A customer and performer can mutually agree on

216-549: A woman smoking a cigar using her vagina, a dominatrix who humiliates a volunteer from the audience, and a couple having sex on a rotating stage. In Thailand, locations like Patpong in Bangkok , Walking Street, Pattaya , Bangla Road in Phuket and Ta Pae Gate in Chiang Mai have numerous venues hosting ping-pong shows. The expression "going to Bangkok" sometimes serves as a euphemism in

240-431: Is also distinguished from regular prostitution in that the performers usually engage in sex acts only with other performers and not with spectators or paying customers. Sex shows can overlap with other sectors of the sex industry . For example, a strip club may also offer live sex performances, and a prostitute may offer to perform sex acts with another prostitute for the gratification of a patron. In Havana , Cuba, in

264-438: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages peep show Several historical media provided voyeuristic entertainment through hidden erotic imagery. Before the development of the cinema in 1895, motion pictures were presented in peep boxes , such as the kinetoscope and the mutoscope . These remained relatively popular for erotic and pornographic films, such as What

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288-599: The 1950s, during the second presidency of Fulgencio Batista , there were semi-legal sex shows and live pornographic theaters, such as the Shanghai Theater and the Tokyo Cabaret. The English novelist Graham Greene , writing in his autobiography Ways of Escape , described "the Shanghai Theatre where for one dollar and twenty-five cents one could see a nude cabaret of extreme obscenity with the bluest of blue films in

312-440: The 1990s. Female performers would stand undressed on a small semicircular or circular stage surrounded by individual booths. By inserting a token into a machine, a patron could open the opaque partitions separating them from the stage. He could then choose a performer and, for the payment of a small tip, summon her and fondle her sexually or ask her to perform sex acts on him. After taking office as mayor in 1994, Rudy Giuliani waged

336-477: The Banshees, 1988 "Peep Show", a song by 50 Cent from Curtis , 2007 "Peep Show", a song by SikTh by The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait for Something Wild , 2003 Peepshow tour, a concert tour by Barenaked Ladies , 2003 Television [ edit ] Peep Show (British TV series) , a 2003–2015 sitcom Peep Show (Canadian TV series) , a 1975–1976 drama anthology program The Peep Show ,

360-511: The Butler Saw . In contemporary use, a peep show is a piecewise presentation of pornographic films or a live sex show which is viewed through a viewing slot, which shuts after the time paid for has expired. The viewing slots can be operated by a money box device, or paid for at a counter. Pornographic peep shows became popular in the 1970s as part of the developing pornography industry. Until home video became widespread, peep shows made up

384-524: The West for "going to a live sex show". Sex shows are subject to varying laws such as licensing requirements and locations are subject to local zoning regulations. Some jurisdictions regard a sex show as prostitution. The content of a sex show may also be subject to national and local obscenity and other laws. Some areas allow striptease, but no sexual activity, others may allow only simulated sexual activity or autoerotic activity, while others allow anything that

408-528: The first U.S. sex business to be unionized . In 2003 it was bought by the employees and became a worker cooperative . It closed due to increased rent in 2013. In Las Vegas in the early 1990s, city authorities began to move peep shows and other sexually oriented businesses away from the city centre. The last peep show in Las Vegas closed in 2019. Times Square in New York was famous for its peep shows up until

432-421: The industry stated that closure of the peep show was done as a retaliative measure against attempts for performers to unionize. The company declared bankruptcy after performers made a second attempt at unionization, whereby the performers "signed cards calling for a union election", and the theater was closed. The former Lusty Lady peep show in San Francisco, California, entered the news in 1997, when it became

456-608: The intervals". During the 1960s and 1970s the Laotian capital Vientiane was famous for sex shows at ping pong show bars during the Vietnam War . Travel writer Paul Theroux described a bar in 1973 Vientiane thus: “Your eyes get accustomed to the dark and you see the waitress is naked . Without warning she jumps on the chair, pokes a cigarette into her vagina and lights it, puffing it by contracting her uterine lungs." British journalist Christopher Robbins wrote that The White Rose ,

480-568: The researchers concluded that the difference was not statistically significant. Other researchers reanalyzed the data and concluded that the difference was significant. Regal Show World was an adult entertainment business on lower Market Street in San Francisco, California . The company's slogan was "Where you are king". The business had a peep show and an adult video arcade . The peep show had performers working in an enclosed round room with viewing booths surrounding it and sometimes had

504-616: The spectators or by the organisers of the show. A performance can include actual or simulated autoerotic acts and/or sexual activity with another performer. The performance can be in a theater style, or it can be in a peep show style. An increasingly popular form of sex show is a webcam performance in which the viewer is able to view and interact with webcam models in real time. Sex shows are distinguished from entertainment such as striptease , pole dancing and lap dance , which do not involve sexual activity other than undressing and dancing nude or semi-nude. Sexual activity at sex shows

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528-494: Was attributed to being unable to compete with pornography on the Internet. American singer Madonna plays a peep show dancer in the video for her song Open Your Heart . Regal Show World Sex show A sex show is a form of live performance that features one or more performers engaging in some form of sexual activity on stage for the entertainment or sexual gratification of spectators. Performers are paid either by

552-484: Was founded in 1990. Bijou Group owned similar businesses in San Francisco such as New Century Theater, Market Street Cinema , and the Campus Theater. Bijou Group, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization c.  1994 . In November 1998, management of Regal Show World announced that the peep show would be closed on November 30 of that month due to "economic reasons". At the time, some performers in

576-656: Was the only live sex theatre left in Germany, and that closed in 2013. In the red light district of De Wallen in Amsterdam there are three main venues for sex shows: a hostess bar called the Bananen Bar , and the Moulin Rouge and Casa Rosso theatres, which feature on-stage sex acts and variations on the ping-pong show. Casa Rosso puts on 90-minute sex shows which are made up of nine different performances. The acts include

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