Peep show
A peepshow (from English to peep “peek through a narrow opening”, in Switzerland also support lisex ), often also referred to as a live show, is a theater in which the paying and almost all male visitors can watch a person who is naked Flaunting bodies in explicitly sexual poses . This facility can often be found in the context of a sex shop .
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There are single cabins for visitors. Usually around ten of them form a U-shape around the show room. After inserting a coin or using a bonus card, the view of the stage is released for a certain period of time - around 1 to 3 euros per minute are common. Traditionally the viewing device was constructed in such a way that the visitor remains unrecognizable to the actor and the other visitors; However, this has changed in Germany, as courts saw this as incompatible with human dignity .
The actresses usually take turns every 5 (in the evening) or 10 minutes (in the afternoon). The performance begins more or less clothed. While the actress alternately poses in front of the booths, on a mirrored wall or on the turntable in the middle of the room, she gradually takes off her clothes. Some actresses loll around on the turntable the entire time or even encourage the customers to masturbate with clear looks and gestures as well as their posture . Others explicitly point out that this is not allowed.
Usually there is the possibility to invite an actress for a higher fee into a single booth, in which more explicit poses and actions are shown, whereby there are sometimes fluid boundaries to direct prostitution . This type of prostitution is sometimes referred to as cabin sex , especially in Vienna .
Many peep shows offer special events at set times, where the time interval is reduced by half and thus the price per minute is doubled. The most common are so-called lesbo shows, in which two women present themselves on the revolving stage and interact with each other. Or (as in Bochum, for example ) all of the usually five to seven busy women romp around on the stage at the same time for ten minutes.
In some cities (e.g. Hanover and Bochum) so-called couple shows were also offered at times. Several times a day at set times, a man and a woman in different positions performed unprotected sexual intercourse. The man was evidently mostly the actual boyfriend of the woman employed in the peepshow. The couples were changed weekly.
When there was still a sufficiently large number of peep shows, the workforce was completely replaced at the beginning and the middle of the month. The already predominantly foreign women toddled through the individual establishments across Europe every two weeks.
A peep show enables the people involved to interact with their customers in the most harmless form. The separation of customers from providers of sexual acts by a pane of glass eliminates the risk of infection and aggression.
Peep shows in Germany
The first peepshow in Europe opened in 1976 in Bayerstrasse near Munich's main train station. Walter Staudinger (* 1942), who is also known as the “Godfather of Munich” and who Wolf Wondratschek used as a model for the hero role in his work Eine von der Strasse (1991) . He got the know-how and material in New York . According to stories, he obtained approval from the district administration department on the pretext of wanting to build a stage for nude models with booths for penniless painters. His birth father brought him to it, who regularly worked as a landscape painter to earn a living , since landscape motifs were free, unlike nude models.
In addition to the one in Munich, there have been other peep shows in Germany since the mid-1970s, including in Hamburg (7), Hanover (2), Berlin (4), Bochum , Gelsenkirchen , Frankfurt am Main (6), Mannheim , Saarbrücken ( 2), Kaiserslautern , Karlsruhe , Stuttgart (3) and Nuremberg (2). Approval was refused by the cities of Düsseldorf , Cologne , Dortmund and Marl .
In the summer of 1982 the Federal Administrative Court in Berlin ruled that the display of naked female bodies in this form violated “good morals” and violated the dignity of women. Peep shows are therefore not eligible for approval in Germany.
The regulatory agencies reacted differently to the highest court ruling: Some used it to immediately order closings - as in Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main. In Stuttgart , the administration opposed prohibition requests with the argument that “the legal situation must first be checked thoroughly”. Most local authorities interpreted the judgment as meaning that no further operating permits had to be issued, but that existing peep shows enjoyed grandfathering.
The Hamburg authorities reacted promptly to the judgment and ordered the peep shows in St. Georg and St. Pauli to be closed at the end of 1983. A demonstration by the women concerned for their jobs could not change that. Individual establishments apparently defended themselves in court and were able to stay afloat for a few years. In February 1990 the last peep show in Hamburg closed.
In Frankfurt am Main, Mayor Walter Wallmann ( CDU ) ordered the closure of six peep shows in 1982. The AStA of the University of Frankfurt protested against this "outrageous measure". 45 of the women concerned fought to keep their jobs by collecting signatures.
In Frankfurt am Main and Mannheim, two peep shows tried to preserve their license through a conversion: "Instead of anonymous booths, the strip-watchers are there in a kind of arena where they can see and be seen," as Spiegel wrote in 1992. However, this did not go down well with the public and the facilities had to close a few months later because there were no customers.
Most of the existing peep shows were able to continue their operations after the judgment of the Federal Administrative Court in 1982. This grandfathering often expired when the owner changed. Fundamental renovations or extensions were no longer approved by the authorities. Over the years this led to the gradual extinction of peep shows in Germany.
Individual peep shows in the province managed to stay afloat for another 30 years, although peep shows went out of fashion in the 1990s and sales were steadily declining. The last ones to close their doors in Saarbrücken (probably 2011), Kaiserslautern (2013), Bochum (August 2014) and Nuremberg (November 2014).
Today there is no longer a single real peep show in Germany. Facilities that still call themselves that today only have video booths or offer a classic table dance. However, the customer no longer has the opportunity to satisfy his or her sex drive when looking at "real" women - not even in any solo booths or private rooms.
Peep shows in Austria
In total there are only three peep shows in Austria . From there, the peep shows in Graz and Vienna have adopted a concept that deviates from the standard peep show. In addition to the revolving stage, these also offer fully approved rooms in which legal prostitution can be pursued. This describes these peepshows as a "peepshow with a Laufhaus / studio system".
In the past, customers were offered a daily "live show" in the Viennese peep shows, during which a couple had sex on stage. These were held up to five times a day in the best establishments. Today, however, the offer is limited to weekly demonstrations. In addition to prostitutes, these shows also regularly feature amateur porn stars and porn newcomers.
Cabin sex exists as a separate form of prostitution and is clearly differentiated from peep shows.
Peep shows in Switzerland
In Switzerland , peep shows are generally referred to as support lisex . In Swiss German , a franc is also referred to as a stutz. The name was derived from the amount of money to be used. In the 1970s and 1980s there was a peep show in Zurich . In other cities there were only single booths in sex cinemas.
Peep shows in Belgium
The last peep show in Belgium , which was located in Brussels in the red light district behind the North Station, has also been closed since June 2016.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Sex Shows: Window to the Meat . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1976 ( online - 20 December 1976 ).
- ↑ Obscure object: Spiegel editor Ariane Barth on the peep show . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1979 ( online - Feb. 26, 1979 ).
- ↑ Münchner Stadtmagazin , No. 5/1992, February 19, 1992, p. 28 ff.
- ↑ Kai Greiser: Sex in the Seventies: Backstage at the peepshow. In: one day . January 20, 2009. Retrieved December 22, 2017 .
- ↑ BVerwGE 63, 274
- ↑ a b c peep show: Dr. Mabuse speaks . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1982, pp. 114-115 ( online ).
- ↑ Self- description: “The Peepshow with Laufhaus / Studio System”. Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Support lisex ensures red heads. (Video Stream) (Not available online.) In: srf.ch . Archived from the original on March 2, 2014 ; Retrieved on December 22, 2017 (Swiss television report on the opening of a support lisex restaurant in Zurich). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Support lisex is closed. (Video Stream) In: srf.ch . July 19, 2001, accessed on December 22, 2017 (Swiss television report on the closure of a support lisex eatery).
