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• • , 1 discussed. The experience of other communities in this regard is 2 pertinent . There need not he an elaborate record made in each and 3 every case as to the impact upon a particular area by virtue of 4 the one theatre involved . Renton is entitled to take defensive S note of the common experiences of other communities and need not 6 introduce the testimony of experts on an effect which is very com- mon in experience . Ci.tt9 of Whittier v. Walnut Properties, Inc. , 8 139 Cal . App. 3rd, 618 ( 1983) . 9 Sexually explicit films are stimulative by definition. The 10 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the 11 American Psychiatric Association, 3rd Edition ( 1982) itself at 12 section 302 .82 states , "watching pornography, filmed or live, 13 causes sexual excitement . " While it may be difficult , of course, to establish that speci- 14 fic untoward predatory sexual overtures are likely to occur as to 15 young children or high school students or others in the vicinity 16 of an adult theatre as a result of over-stimulated patrons of the 17 theatre , there can be some risk of that sufficient to justify 18 dispersal to areas where young people are not likely to be easily 19 20 accessible . One of the films stipulated as representative, "Debbie Does 21 Dallas , " which the advisory jury found obscene, focused upon sex 22 in many forms by older married men with teenage girls . In fact, 23 24 the high school girls would normally have been of a chronological 25 age under 18 . These young adolescent girls are portrayed as 26 highly precocious sexually and engage in various money transac- 27 tions designed to assist them in accompanying the football team to 28 a game in Dallas . The tone of the film projects a message that 29 these young women are sexually available , knowledgeable, entrepre- 30 neurial with respect to sex, and that sex with young women of this 31 age is not only enjoyable and desirable, but consensual . We also 32 33 MEMORANDUM DECISION -- 8