Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby mamundsen » March 10th, 2015, 10:41 am

Think of it this way... For the bachelor parties coming to Minneapolis these are actually a draw. If they were all in the burbs or nonexistent we would not be as desirable as a destination.

I speak from experience, I have a few friends who will only come in from the burbs for sporting events or bachelor parties.

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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby Tyler » March 10th, 2015, 11:08 am

I don't think anyone here wants to shut them down. I said "It'd be nice if they went away" in my first post and that was a poor choice of words. I just meant off of Washington.
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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby MNdible » March 10th, 2015, 11:42 am

Just a reminder that there are very strict limits as to where strip clubs are allowed to located in town. Any additional limitations would probably bring a lawsuit, and they'd probably win.

Adult "novelty" retail shops are not included in this limitation, and I honestly don't know if our zoning code distinguishes between them and any other retail establishment.

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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby FISHMANPET » March 10th, 2015, 11:45 am

I remember when the ill fated Hustler store opened in the Lyn Lake area there were people trying to complain but the CMs said there was nothing they could do about the business type based on zoning.

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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby seanrichardryan » March 10th, 2015, 5:46 pm

I remember when the ill fated Hustler store opened in the Lyn Lake area there were people trying to complain but the CMs said there was nothing they could do about the business type based on zoning.
That was on Hennepin south of 24th Street between 5th Element & Valvoline.
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Postby talindsay » March 10th, 2015, 6:49 pm

I think a problem with strip clubs is their very closed nature. It's not like you can show off the goods in the window.
I have the experience to tell you this is incorrect. When my daughter was a baby I was walking around Toronto (on Kings Street IIRC) with her in a baby carrier on my front when I realized a topless lady dancing in the window of a sex store I was passing was waving. She blew me a kiss and smiled. My daughter, of course, was fast asleep but it still seemed more than a little awkward. So maybe the phrase you were looking for was that "it's not like you should show off the goods in the window".

That said, while I don't really look forward to *explaining* to guests that they should get off the light rail in front of the strip club, I enjoy the non-puritanical nature of living in a proper city where we don't have to pretend these businesses don't exist or we're somehow too good for a legitimate entertainment business.

I realize that at this point *anybody* who's paying attention has read it, but for all y'all who haven't gone to the trouble of reading Diablo Cody's Candy Girl: A Year In the Life of an Unlikely Stripper you really need to do so. It's a pretty quick read and gives a really good picture of at least one person's inside take of the Minneapolis adult business scene.

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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby 5th Ave Guy » March 11th, 2015, 7:08 am

I don't think the existing places should go way, I just don't think we need more of them. It's impressive how many strip clubs I pass on my short walk to work every morning.

This place is called Intimate Treasures, btw.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis General Topics & Development Map

Postby xandrex » March 11th, 2015, 10:33 am

I have the experience to tell you this is incorrect. When my daughter was a baby I was walking around Toronto (on Kings Street IIRC) with her in a baby carrier on my front when I realized a topless lady dancing in the window of a sex store I was passing was waving. She blew me a kiss and smiled. My daughter, of course, was fast asleep but it still seemed more than a little awkward. So maybe the phrase you were looking for was that "it's not like you should show off the goods in the window".
That may or may not fly in Toronto, but I very much doubt topless strippers in windows would be allowed in Minneapolis. That was kind of my point. :mrgreen:

I'm pretty nonchalant about these places. I have approximately zero interest in setting foot in them and wouldn't care if they disappeared completely, but their existence isn't a bother (except for the general disrepair of many of these types of buildings).

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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby at40man » March 12th, 2015, 2:49 pm

Many years ago, I naively thought Lickety Split was the name of an ice cream parlor and somehow missed the XXX on the side of the building. I walked in and discovered that they serve a different kind of banana split than what I had wanted. :lol:

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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby PhilmerPhil » March 12th, 2015, 3:14 pm

Know any good rap parlors around these parts?
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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby John » March 12th, 2015, 9:00 pm

Rap parlor. An establishment or place primarily in the business of providing nonprofessional conversation or similar services for adults. What does that mean? :?

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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby seanrichardryan » March 13th, 2015, 3:23 pm

In person phone sex.
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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby Nick » March 13th, 2015, 4:37 pm

There's def a specific ordinance banning glory holes which I've seen but I couldn't find it for the life of me. Def a top ten ordinance.
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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby John » March 13th, 2015, 5:27 pm

There's def a specific ordinance banning glory holes which I've seen but I couldn't find it for the life of me. Def a top ten ordinance.
Those tend to be more clandestine and makeshift so it would be very hard to enforce. I suppose an adult bookstore could be inspected to make sure they were not present and cited if they were not removed.

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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby Nick » March 13th, 2015, 5:38 pm

That's how I learned about the ordinance! Crazy world we live in.
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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby FISHMANPET » March 13th, 2015, 9:34 pm

Ok since you're a city employee there's gotta be a story behind this.

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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby seanrichardryan » March 13th, 2015, 9:44 pm

That's how I learned about the ordinance! Crazy world we live in.
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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby Silophant » March 23rd, 2015, 9:51 pm

Didn't grab a picture, but Spearmint Rhino has their awning up now.
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Re: Adult-Oriented Businesses in Downtown Minneapolis

Postby seanrichardryan » March 23rd, 2015, 10:28 pm

That required a google. Looks...nice? :/
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