The transition of Sex-related industries in Toronto - Yonge Street Strip...
Adma and Everyone: Interesting article about the Yonge Street Strip's transition away
from the seedy sex-related clubs and related venues to a more tourist-oriented business
orientation...I first visited Toronto in Summer 1979 and I noticed the Strip right away...
The first thing I thought of was the Emile Jacques murder in 1977 and the initial backlash
to sex-oriented businesses on the Yonge Street strip and afterwards
changes in attitudes about those businesses along with time noting those 1993
changes there...I noticed gradual change during my visits to Toronto mainly over
the course of the 80s...
This also reminds me of the changes to the Sex industry in NYC during the administration
of Mayor Rudy Giuliani after 1994 in Midtown Manhattan especially in the
Times Square area...I wonder how those businesses will fare during the more
conservative Rob Ford era in Toronto...can he be compared to Guiliani on this subject?
In NYC Gentlemen's Clubs (the strip emporiums of today) tend to be just enough out
of the way in Manhattan or in the close-in outer Boroughs...
The old-fashioned "Topless Bar" is becoming increasingly harder to find...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! LI MIKE