Bar Sex (1970s) -

: Academic articles, such as those hosted on ResearchGate , examine how the 1960s and 1970s "sex districts" were a new phenomenon driven by shifting legal definitions of "obscenity" and the libertinism of the era. 3. International Context

Other articles use the term to describe the burgeoning commercial sex scene in cities like New York and San Francisco. Bar Sex (1970s)

: By the mid-1970s, New York’s Times Square featured over 100 sex shops and topless bars . Articles from the period and retrospective analyses, such as those in the New York Times , describe this as a "boom time" for the sex industry. : Academic articles, such as those hosted on