Quote Originally Posted by maump View Post
When I was younger, the male equivalent was present in USA big cities (NYC, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Ft Lauderdale, orlando, Philadelphia) now largely or completely gone. pushed out by local laws/religion (I mean NYC in the 70's was awesome sleeze, now is disney and starbucks). Stripper, whores, sex shows... orgies in adult book store dark areas, sauna that were awesome. I saw it all. now largely gone.
Yeah, even as a foreigner living there in the 2000s it was pretty dismal. Or wonderfully safe and livable for a big American city, depending on which side of the debate you fall on. I found it awful - Starbucks, D'Agostinos, Kinko on every other block. Haven't been back since I left the country; apparently it's all million-dollar condos in Park Slope now. (???) When I hear stories like maump's, I get nostalgic for times I never had the pleasure to experience.