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Published On: Thu, Aug 10th, 2017

THE SEX FILES: RedTube Goes Down On New York

This past June, probably without you noticing (I certainly didnā€™t notice) the New York Court of Appeals reinstated a handful of regulations that bar any NYC city establishment from ā€œlive performances characterized by an emphasis on certain specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities.ā€ This also touches on keeping the selling of explicit sexual videos to specific city zones. X-rated shops (which sometimes include peep shows) are scrambling, hoping freedom-of-speech and long-held tolerances will prevail. As I reported here when Show Worldā€™s Richard Basciano died, the crack down on pornography in the Disney take-over of Times Square changed the landscape forever (for good or bad?ā€¦.well certainly tourism increased). But we have seen slippery slopes before. Legislation in this country often takes on Lingchi-like maneuvering, a bit-by-bit slicing away of our freedoms so before we know it, once again, we have lost a whole lot more than we ever dreamed we could.

Letā€™s just say I worry for men and women trying to sell adult toys in this city, maybe a naughty DVD or my friends over at Vivid Cabaret trying to provide upscale entertainmentā€¦hell, I worry for us all.

But if it might be stopped above ground, maybe there is hope some sexiness can still happen belowā€¦.

The city just went ahead with a long-planned Second Avenue subway line, and the plans are in the works to extend the subway north to 125th Street and south to Hanover Square. Our governor also introduced a plan to woo corporate sponsorship for much needed cash for these and other subway improvements with his Subway Partnership Program; 72 stations would be involved. Jumping on this ā€˜offerā€™ RedTubeā€™s VP Alex Taylor offered Andrew Cuomo at least $600,000 to ā€œadoptā€ a subway station. The plan, as Taylor outfitted in his letter to the governor would be to decorate a station with RedTube ads and ā€˜red-themedā€™ artwork, as well as trains. As Taylor said ā€œa number of trains in red/RedTube branding so people could actually ride a red tube.ā€

This is not the first sponsorship the infamous adult site has backed and Cuomoā€™s Subway Partnership Program is just an idea at this point. But maybe porn, sexual imagery, salacious ads and suggestiveness will be completely taken from the streets up above and ā€œgo underground,ā€ where many critics feel this stuff belongs anyway.

Though nobody would have ever imagined RedTube down in our subways beyond maybe flashing across some ridersā€™ phones.

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THE SEX FILES: RedTube Goes Down On New York