ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the geographic and economic scale of and some of the material impacts that hypersexuality has on cities. It explores how the presence of the strip club in neoliberal cities as an architectural syntax for the normalization of sexual violence against women and girls. The chapter also introduces King Street in Melbourne and the strip club's spatial organization as a discrete entity and also as a spatial precinct that can be seen as a territory of hypersexualized violence in cities. It examines the hypersexualized city of Surfers Paradise on Australia's Gold Coast, using the 'Meter Maid' phenomenon as an example. The veiled location of stripping, pole dancing and lap dancing in the business segment of 'leisure and entertainment' and not as part of an overt zone for the sex industry is contested. The ability to be able to meet the sexualized standards of porno-chic is viewed as an achievement in popular media that portray the sex industries as glamorous.
