QUITO (ECUADOR): For a genre built on frenzied promiscuity, pornography draws a remarkably faithful [one might even say, religious] crowd in the Ecuadoran capital, whose last two porn cinemas are just surviving the Internet age thanks to a trickle of steadfast patrons.
A man watches an XXX rated movie at the Hollywood cinema in Quito, on March 6. – AFP Photo/Rodrigo Buendia
The Hollywood and the America, the last movie theaters of their kind in Quito, used to get more than 1,000 clients a day in the late 1980s, screening international porn stars’ latest escapades around the clock.
The two cinemas are both located in central Quito, a neighborhood more known for Catholic churches than porn in this traditionally conservative city of 2.5 million people.
A board at the Hollywood porno cinema in Quito, advertises the latest movies as well as warning only men are allowed, on March 6, 2015 (AFP Photo/Rodrigo Buendia)
Their last competitor, the Granada, closed its doors several years ago.
Today, the theaters each sell about 120 tickets a day to a dying breed of customers, usually 40 to 70 years old, who ignore the abundance of online porn and the social stigma to continue watching explicit sex scenes on the big screen.
