Adult Movie Theatres in Philadelphia
Pennsylvania · last checked 2 November 2026
Philadelphia still has a room with a screen and seats in it. Scorpio, a block off Broad Street in Center City, runs a multi-screen theatre with three big-screen TVs and leather couches, and video booths with 2,000 channel selections. The Dream Boutique has a theatre section and a booth section, Fantasy Island on State Road a viewing area for $3 cash, and Venus Video’s booths are listed open around the clock. Do not go looking for the Forum on Market Street: it was demolished in early 2013, and an office tower now stands on the same block.
Rooms open in the city now
The Dream Boutique
Theatre6039 Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19153
- Theatre section
- $10, by a customer on 3 January 2026, and still $10 to enter on 17 July 2026
- Booth section
- $5, by a customer on 3 January 2026
- Phone
- (215) 724-8507
A customer on 3 January 2026 described a toy shop at the front, a booth section and a theatre section. Another, on 17 July 2026, described rooms showing videos.
Last checked 2 November 2026 · Rooms showing videos, described by a customer on 17 July 2026
Scorpio Adult Boutique & Video
Theatre205 South Juniper Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
- Hours
- Monday to Thursday 10am to 11pm, Friday and Saturday 10am to 2am, Sunday 10am to 8pm
- Theatre
- Three big-screen TVs, leather couches
- Booths
- Video booths, 2,000 channel selections
- Phone
- (215) 545-2181
A block off Broad Street in Center City. Its own page lists a multi-screen theatre with three big-screen TVs and leather couches, video booths with 2,000 different channel selections, and DVDs from $9.99.
Last checked 2 November 2026 · A theatre listed on the shop's own page on 2 November 2026
Fantasy Island Adult Book Store
7363 State Road, Philadelphia, PA 19136
- Viewing area
- $3 cash to enter, $10 by card, by the shop on 17 October 2026
- Hours
- Monday to Thursday 9am to midnight, Friday and Saturday 9am to 4am, Sunday noon to 10pm, by its listings
- Phone
- (215) 332-5454
The shop says it has been there since 1978.
Last checked 2 November 2026 · A viewing area named by the shop on 17 October 2026
Venus Video
6307 Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19153
- Video booths
- $10, by a customer in about May 2026
- Hours
- Open 24 hours, by its listings
- Phone
- (215) 937-1545
Last checked 2 November 2026 · Video booths described by a customer in about February 2026
Danny’s Midnight Confessions, 133 South 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, (215) 925-5041, is an adult shop. A customer reviewed it on 15 February 2026.
Romeo and Juliet’s, 4853 James Street, Philadelphia, PA 19137, (215) 533-6969, is an adult shop. A customer reviewed it in about June 2026.
Checked 2 November 2026.
The Forum lost twice
The Forum, at 2208 Market Street, opened in the 1970s and showed adult films; Cinema Treasures lists a single screen and 250 seats. In October 2007 Philadelphia Magazine ran a piece on it under the headline “The Last Porn Palace”.
March 2011
The city's zoning board had let the owners expand the building, and neighbours had appealed. A state court overturns the permission. The Forum stays open.
September 2012
The operator is sued for about $29,000 in rent.
30 November 2012
An eviction notice is issued.
By the end of 2012
The doors are shut.
Early 2013
The building is demolished.
2020
A 19-storey office tower is planned for the same block.
No raid and no ordinance closed it. A court stopped it growing, and the rent ended it.
Look at the photograph again. On the tower behind the marquee, a banner sells thirty-year fixed mortgages at once-in-a-lifetime pricing. The land under the Forum was worth more than the seats in it, and an office tower now stands on the same block.
The Sansom Cinema carried on
The headline was the magazine’s, and the Forum was not the city’s last adult cinema. Cinema Treasures lists the Sansom Cinema downtown as showing gay adult films until fall 2014.
Sources
- Forum Theatre, Cinema Treasures
- The Last Porn Palace, Philadelphia Magazine, 24 October 2007
- Judge: Porn theater on Market St. may not expand, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 11 March 2011
- Pornos Not Returning to the Forum, Philadelphia Magazine, 11 December 2012
- Forum Theater's closing gives Philadelphia a chance, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 December 2012
- The Philadelphia Inquirer, 13 March 2019
- The Philadelphia Inquirer, 21 January 2020
- Sansom Cinema, Cinema Treasures
- The Forum Theater, Philadelphia, 21 June 2012, Wikimedia Commons
- Scorpio Adult Boutique & Video, own site
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