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kinds of pornographic adult businesses that could have a blighting effect upon a <br />neighborhood if allowed to grow uncontrolled. The list also points to the problem of <br />attempting to define each new adult business. <br />Pornographic Adult Businesses <br />Adult bookstores <br />Adult mini motion picture theater (peep shows) <br />Adult motion picture theaters <br />Artists body painting studios <br />Eating places with adult entertainment <br />Exotic photo studios <br />Lounges and bars, topless <br />Lounges and bars, bottomless <br />Massage parlor <br />Nude theater <br />Nude wrestling parlor <br />As cities strengthen laws dealing with certain listed businesses, new businesses <br />providing the same or similar services have been invented by the industry. For <br />example,in Birmingham, laws governing massage parlors were tightened forcing most to <br />close• As a result, shoeshine shops, where you can lie down while getting your shoes <br />shined and providinq the same service as the massage parlor, were opened. The Ejty was <br />then forced to adopt another ordinance requiring that a person could not lie down <br />to get a shoeshine. Similar situations occurred in Boston when massage parlors were <br />under attack. A quick metamorphosis was made of adult entertainment businesses <br />under the guise of sensitivity training parlors, nude wrestling studios and <br />exotic photography centers. These later generation businesses were clearly not <br />massage parlors, even though similar services were offered, and were not subject <br />to the massage parlor ordinances. <br />Two distinctly different zoning techniques have been used to regulate the adult <br />entertainment industry. They are: <br />I. The Boston, Massachusetts approach. In 1974 Boston was the first city <br />in the nation to put its official stamp on the adult entertainment zone. <br />Boston created a special zoning category for adult bookstores, peep <br />7 EVER00327 <br />