# Do any movie theaters still show porn? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-movie-theaters-still-show-porn/556456 "2010-10-08T03:22:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-movie-theaters-still-show-porn/556456/41 "2011-02-15T10:46:27Z")
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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-movie-theaters-still-show-porn/556456/42 "2011-02-15T14:38:34Z")
> [@Foggy](#): > > Zombie Porn I give you [LA Zombie](http://www.lazombie.com/) by Bruce Labruce. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-movie-theaters-still-show-porn/556456/43 "2011-02-15T15:13:50Z")
Hrm…seems our new friend has only one post, so we know what he came for. **BdoMcGrego** , bless his heart, came in, woke up this slumbering zombie in the middle of the night, made his deposit and left. And what a deposit it was eh! ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-movie-theaters-still-show-porn/556456/44 "2011-02-15T15:18:06Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > I ran the projector in a wank-in-- uh, _walk_-in porn theater in Oklahoma some years ago. Patrons masturbated frequently right in the theater. You’d also see them head for their cars, stay for a few minutes of noticeable bouncing, and then leave. > [I also had the cliche experience of recognizing a former girlfriend in the cast of one, but that’s probably a story for another thread…] > Come to think of it, I went with that girl to the Mitchell Brothers’ San Francisco theater to see _Behind the Green Door_ when it was first released. To answer your other question. Where was this theater? I only ask because I was aware of a couple in Tulsa in the early 80s. Sand Springs had the Capri Drive In, which was a drive-in Porn theater. I went there a few times with girlfriend, and a bunch of beer drinking buddies (um never at the same time). ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-movie-theaters-still-show-porn/556456/45 "2011-02-15T15:25:30Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > When I lived in NYC, the artist woman I lived with (roommate) had a job where she created the newspaper ads for all the porno theaters in the (then) seedy area of Times Square. She basically had a library of photos of women with big tits and would cut out a photo, create some fictitious name for the movie and list the show times. Nice, easy gig and she got paid well. > I would sometimes help her create the names for the films - was fun to do and we came up with some really witty, silly names of porn flicks. Only rule being you could not use profanity as the newspapers were very specific about what they would allow. Our paper used to run the ads but most titles were unacceptable; they’d just say “Call for title.” When I was young and naive I’d think maybe they hadn’t gotten the film in before the ad deadline so they didn’t know what they were going to show. Actually, in some cases I suppose that could have been true. Theatres are gone now anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-movie-theaters-still-show-porn/556456/46 "2011-02-15T15:25:56Z")
A friend of mine managed such a place in the 70s. After they closed one night (like 2AM or so), a bunch of us went there for a party. It was great, we watched Deep Throat, and as a precursor to Mystery Science Theater 3000, we made a running commentary to the movie. Pretty hysterical way to watch such stuff. We brought liquor too. Most fun I have ever had watching a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-movie-theaters-still-show-porn/556456/47 "2011-02-16T07:04:24Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Where was this theater? I only ask because I was aware of a couple in Tulsa in the early 80s. Sand Springs had the Capri Drive In, which was a drive-in Porn theater. I went there a few times with girlfriend, and a bunch of beer drinking buddies (um never at the same time). The Olde Tyme Cinema, at, if memory serves, 31st and Harvard. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-movie-theaters-still-show-porn/556456/48 "2011-02-16T13:29:02Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Also has anyone here ever seen a porno in an actual theater? Yep. In the bad old days of White rule (well, up to '90 or so), \*all \*pornography was banned in South Africa (non-racehorse gambling, too). But it was legal in some of the “homelands” - specifically, Bophuthatswana, which was where Sun City was located. Sun City had an X-rated theatre. So when we visited Sun City as bright-eyed uni students far from home, of course we went to see a movie in theatre. Tuned out to be the Traci Lords flick “It’s My Body”, which would probably get you done for kiddie porn in the US. Lucky us. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-movie-theaters-still-show-porn/556456/49 "2011-02-16T13:48:24Z")
In college (late 80’s) there was a circular building on campus that was divided into three wedges, each of which was a pie-shaped lecture hall seating about 400 people. Every so often on a Saturday night one of them would double as a porn theatre- I remember watching _Caligula_ there with some friends (male and female). No hanky panky in the place as far as I could tell, but I’m sure there was plenty of action back at the dorms after it ended. It was weird sitting in Psyche 201 on Monday morning in the same lecture hall & remembering what was going on on the screen in the front of the room a couple nights before. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-movie-theaters-still-show-porn/556456/50 "2011-02-16T14:13:39Z")
When I attended Northern Illinois University from '81-'84, a couple of times a semester they would actually show porn movies in the auditorium at the Student Center. I remember seeing _Deep Throat_ and _Insatiable_ there, and some other lesser-known titles, all with a group of dorm buddies. As far as I know, nobody jerked it during the movies, but as I recall everybody kind of disappeared into their rooms for a while afterward. I’m going to go ahead and take a flying guess that schools don’t show porn on campus anymore. There was also a second-run theater near campus that would have porn showing every now and then, but not as rule. I went to a couple of those, but they were always edited versions with all the actual penetration expunged. ETA – Got distracted and didn’t see **corkboard** ’s post covering some of the same points. Yeah, it _was_ kind of a weird situation looking back. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-movie-theaters-still-show-porn/556456/51 "2011-02-17T02:39:29Z")
We had a local drive in that showed porn up until around 1984. It was right on a main road too. They had bright lights that blocked the view of the screen from the road. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-movie-theaters-still-show-porn/556456.md?page=2)