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Outlets for adult -only material in the City include several book stores, drug <br />stores, grocery stores, etc., with sections of books and magazines featuring nudity <br />and nonexplicit sexual activity. Pornographic publications featuring nudity with <br />explicit sexual activity, are available within the City in only seven known loca- <br />tions, three being adult theaters with books, magazines, novelties and peep shows. <br />These are dispersed lineally across the CBD and its fringe. There are also four <br />book stores that devote space to publications featuring pornography with explicit <br />sexual activity. No attempt has been made to locate all activities featuring minimal <br />amounts of pornographic publications. <br />As can be discerned from this overview of the extent of pornography distribu- <br />tion within the City, our current problem is not great. However, the following <br />paraphrased statement concerning Mason City, Iowa, illustrates the potential for <br />growth of the adult entertainment industry. <br />Between 1963 and 1964 go-go dancers gradually began to appear in the <br />lounges and bars of the town. By 1955 the dancers were topless. In <br />1973 the City received an application for its first adult moviehouse <br />license. The license was refused (probably by an arbitrary and subjective <br />decision). The applicant filed a judicial appeal and won the case forcing <br />the City to grant the license. In 1973 an adult book store opened, complete <br />with sex novelties and movies. Also in 1973 a popular lounge hired totally <br />nude dancers. Four competitors soon followed suit. Finally the. City <br />gained its first massage parlor.b <br />There is no reason to assume that Amarillo will be exempt from a growth of <br />adult oriented businesses similar to Mason City. The lack of any valid City <br />mechanism to control and regulate the anticipated growth could lead to <br />(a) concentrations of adult entertainr-pent businesses creating a crime incidence <br />condition equal to or greater than the current situation around concentrations <br />of alcohol only businesses, and (b) a proliferation of adult entertainment <br />businesses in and around residential areas and other family or juvenile oriented <br />activities.. <br />EVER00331 <br />