How much is online porn cutting into business and shakedowns?
I live in a city pretty famous for it's vice, one of the big adult shops (sold videos, sex toys and bondage stuff) that had a fairly good mail-order business was shut down. I know friends of the owner and they said it was because he had next to zero internet presence. Online mechants simply killed him.
The local old-school adult theatre seems to be on it's last legs and nieghborhood it's in is rapidly gentrifying, so it will probably be gone in the next couple of years.
The strip-clubs are still going strong of course, plenty of tourists come here with wads to gamble at the casinos and husbands on "business trips" want to see the real thing.
The legal cat-houses are going strong too even though they have to set-up 25 miles out of town.
But I know a couple of girls who are cam girls and they make a pretty good bank for $500 investment on equipment and the cut from the websites they work for. The only way to shakedown someone doing that is blackmail, but thier already on the internet for anyone to see in the first place. If someone wants to find you, they will find you.
On line porn changed everything,there had been a legal dispute between the producers and the "tube" sites bootlegging clips, but that has been worked out with hit and ad exchanges, so both parties make money off the other.
Generally the only reason you still see theaters are that they usually provide other services. There is a establishment in Melrose park Illinois for example, that is a theater, spa bookstore, toy store and banquet hall for stag parties and the like
A guy was just convicted here in Chicago for planning the murder of a strip club owner, in order to bring the other hood out into line, and bring the majority of the adult industry in the area in line, the sick part of that is, they both got in line without anyone getting killed
