Closing of Downtown Intimates adult business recalls Rochester's pornographic past

Closing of Downtown Intimates adult business recalls Rochester's pornographic past

ROCHESTER — The history of smut and pornography in Rochester is a long and colorful one. Yet, when Downtown Intimates/The THC Joint, an established downtown Rochester adult entertainment and vaping shop, announced its closure last week, it passed with scant notice — a far cry from the atmosphere of uproar and titanic battles once waged between city fathers and sellers of pornography over their sex-oriented businesses and the First Amendment. The…