The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence of the area.
Keywords: 1970s , new-york-city , porn-industry , pornography , prostitution , drug-use , sex-trade , sexual-exploitation , times-square , 1980s , brothel , corrupt-police-officials , film-directing , hiv-aids-epidemic , peep-show , pimps , sex-shop , sex-show , sex-workers , street-walker