Sex For Sale: The Urban Battleground

Duration: 1600

Year Published: 1977

Creator: ABC News

Complete Record: Narrated by Howard K. Smith Expose on sex businesses -- strippers, topless dancers, massage parlors, sex shops. Prostitutes on the street. Pimp guy calling customers into the shop. Older guy looking at the porno magazine. The shots of adult video stores. Anti-prostitution / sex work stance. Men looking at pornography. Sex businesses in poor neighborhoods, drunks and winos. Signs for topless bars, strip joints. Streetwalkers, prostitutes. Interview with priest and professors about prostitution. BW images of prostitutes and drug dealers on the street. Interviews with local shop owners. Teen prostitutes, drug dealers. Nude dancers in G-strings. Police cars. Decay of NYC neighborhoods; old buildings with broken windows. Shots of strip clubs in NYC. Negative economic Influence to Times Square neighborhood. Picketers protest sex businesses. People with boards and American flag in hands demonstrating against prostitution. Flashy strip club and empty store. Buildings with wrecked, run-down interiors. Interviews with professors about prostitution and sex role. Strippers obediently serving male customers. Reporter explaining the connection between credit card and prostitution. Shots of houses of prostitution which accept credit cards. Drawings of man receiving services from prostitutes. The shots of massage parlor, strip clubs, adult bookstore. Prostitution houses owned by major film studios, Columbia University and banks. Drawings of topless dancer dancing and serving customers. Prostitutes being handcuffed and arrested. Interviews with law enforcement and police officers. Still images of naked prostitute and customer. Detroit Zoning Law. A man explaining the law. The story of battle between people and prostitutes in 70s in Detroit. Interviews with residents of neighborhoods that have been overrun by prostitution. Group of women sitting at the table and talking about how prostitution disturbs their lives. Johns prostitutioning prostitutes. Images of prostitutes on the street dressed up and waiting for customer. Interview with Detroit prostitute talking about her experience. Picketers demonstrating against prostitution. Police officers in uniform walking down the street. Street prostitutes and johns. Prostitutes under thirteen years old and minority. Grainy, surveillance type shots of hookers and johns. Various shots of street prostitutes and customers in business suits. Prostitutes being arrested. Prostitutes being led off to jail or to the paddy wagon. Woman with handcuffs. Pimps inviting customers in the shops. Belly dancer. High angle shots of prostitutes and money exchange. Man picking up a prostitute. Prostitutes waiting on the street and men looking at them. Prostitutes in color. Narrator giving commentary about Prostitution and pornography. Grainy images of young men and prostitutes wandering on the street.