The Blue Store and Blue Door video, two of Chelsea's aging Eighth Avenue porn shops, have been the site of a number of recent questionable arrests for prostitution. Gay City News reports:
Robert Pinter, a licensed massage therapist, has a thriving business. When he was arrested [for solicitation], he had $207 and a check for $110 in his pocket, according to the police voucher.If you're still getting your porn from video stores, I suppose it'd pay to be careful while you're there. An even better idea? Get your porn and sex accoutrement online!
His arrest is just one of a number of improbable arrests that officers from the Manhattan South Vice Enforcement Squad made in Blue Door Video this year . . . Blue Door was closed in June under the city nuisance abatement law after vice cops made ten prostitution arrests there in January and February. The criminal complaints in those arrests were filed as part of that lawsuit. In every case, it was police who first mentioned money.
Asked if the police were entrapping gay men in city porn shops, Paul J. Browne, the police department's spokesman, wrote in an email, "Robert Pinter was arrested for prostitution on October 10 after he asked the officer how much money he had, and then offered to perform oral sex on the officer for $50. The location, Blue Door Video, has been the subject of prostitution complaints previously. It's currently enjoined by the court from conducting, permitting, or promoting prostitution. Blue Door Video and the landlord paid $2,500 in settlement costs stemming from the injunction."
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