Word: reeperbahn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeared when Conductor Erich Leinsdorf lowered his baton for the overture. Tenor Hugh Beresford wandered over a barren wooden platform; instead of a balletic orgy, there was a huge human brain populated with frightening, dim figures miming psychiatric problems ranging from infantilism to sadomasochism. Venus arrived looking like a Reeperbahn stripper...
...boutiques in several cities offer an endless variety of erotic paraphernalia, and coyly clinical ''sex education" films pack moviehouses. In Hamburg's seamy, mile-square St. Pauli district, whose fleshpots draw 300,000 visitors a month, businessmen who are shy about being spotted on the notorious Reeperbahn can swing into an underground garage, park, choose a fraülein at a discreet Kontakthof (contact court), then take an elevator to one of two six-story, modern sexscrapers named Eros Center and the Palais d'Amour...
...Formula. Along with a younger rival called the St. Pauli Zeitung (circ. 535,000), the Nachrichten carries the sort of news and pictures that no other paper sees fit to print. As basic how-to (and how-much) sheets, the papers are vital to Reeperbahn newcomers who do not know the cost of a "car-strip" girl ($4 to $6) or an all-nighter ($40). Outside of Hamburg's St. Pauli area, where their success lies, the papers have sought to establish themselves as national arbiters of porn. The Nachrichten runs regular reviews of erotic art shows, sex books...