ABSTRACT
Sexual services and products have long been a part of the US entertainment and leisure industries. In a 1997 article for US News & World Report, Eric Schlosser reported that in the prior year Americans spent “more than $8 billion on hard-core videos, peep shows, live sex acts, adult cable programming, sexual devices, computer porn, and sex magazines.” The number of major strip clubs catering to heterosexually identified men nearly doubled between 1987 and 1992, and an estimate for late 1998 put the number of clubs at around 3,000 with annual revenues ranging from $500,000 to more than $5 million.
