This story relates to the NoPornNorthampton story posted earlier, as the adult store chain involved is the same chain, and this may come into play as Northampton’s fight moves forward. The town council in Kittery, Maine approved a license that would allow the store to continue operating its private viewing booths, which were shut down last year after complaints that gay men were using the business as a place to obtain anonymous sex. Complaints also alleged that used condoms and pornography were being discarded outside the store. Full story at Fosters, Dover, NH.
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It should be noted that conditions at Capital Video’s Kittery outlet improved only after the town proposed and passed viewing booth health regulations last year. These regulations included removing the doors from the booths and improving the lighting.
Capital Video vigorously opposed these regulations in court and lost. We recount the story here.
Fundamentally, the problem is that Capital Video has a financial incentive to be lax about activities within their stores with viewing booths (patron: “…there’s more money going in the machines with lights off and holes in the walls”).
In the absence of regulations, one of Capital Video’s own patrons suggests an awareness that lax periods follow restrictive ones (periods when Capital Video cracks down to avoid government action): “I agree that it is not really worth the time with the bright lights and no holes but they will be back eventually. Be Patient!”