Adult Movie Theatres in Seattle
Washington · last checked 19 October 2026
Downtown Seattle has nothing left. First Avenue was a solid row of adult cinemas and bookshops into the 1970s, and the last survivor, the Lusty Lady, shut in June 2010. What is still trading is one shop with booths, out in West Seattle.
What is open right now
Taboo Adult Video, West Seattle
Booth arcade9813 16th Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98106
- Has
- Three themed theatres with couches, plus a booth arcade
- Theatre
- $8 for five hours, $10 all day. Women free
- Arcade
- A dollar buys just under three minutes
- Hours
- 10am to 10pm
- Phone
- (206) 767-4855
About seven miles south-west of downtown, off Roxbury. This page originally called it a shop with booths and nothing to sit down in. That was wrong: a customer in May 2024 describes three themed theatres with comfortable couches, and says you can change what is playing. Another in December 2023 found the theatre and arcade areas clean and maintained.
The prices come from a visitor who asked at the counter: eight dollars buys five hours in the theatre, ten buys the whole day, and women get in free at any time.
Last checked 19 October 2026 · Theatres described in a review dated 27 May 2024
One more, added 19 October 2026
Adult Airport Video 2
Theatre21635 Pacific Highway South, Des Moines, WA 98198
- Has
- On-site viewing, described by customers as a theatre
- Hours
- 10am to 2am
- Phone
- (206) 878-7780
Fifteen miles south of the city on Pacific Highway, near the airport. The business describes on-site viewing in its own listing, and a first-time visitor wrote about being nervous going into an adult theatre alone, which settles what the room is.
Out of the city, like the Everett shop on the Boston page, and listed here because it is the nearest room to Seattle rather than because it is in it.
Last checked 19 October 2026 · On-site viewing stated by the business; thirty reviews
Three others are worth naming and are not counted. Hollywood Erotic Boutique on Lake City Way trades from 6am to 5am and is listed as adult entertainment rather than retail, and a customer describes a theatre there, but we could not date that account and the business says it has no private rooms. There is a second Adult Airport Video up in Everett. And Steamworks on Capitol Hill is a bathhouse with video areas, open around the clock.
Two addresses not to drive to
Taboo’s downtown branch at 1012 First Avenue is closed. Its listing was updated as recently as June 2026 and says so, but the address still circulates. If you want Taboo, it is the West Seattle shop above.
So is the Lusty Lady, at 1315 First Avenue. It closed in June 2010 and guides still list it, partly because it was famous enough that people assume it survived. It did not.
When First Avenue was porn row
That block is Pike Place Market’s South Arcade today. In 1972 it was news stands, bookshops and cinemas running adult films around the clock, a few minutes’ walk from the fish stalls.
The one that became a landmark
The Lusty Lady opened in the 1970s as the Amusement Center and moved to 1315 First Avenue in 1985, where it stayed for twenty-five years. It was a peep show, not a cinema: booths, a window, live dancers behind the glass.
What made it a Seattle institution was the sign. The marquee changed constantly and the puns were the whole point, and because it sat directly across First Avenue from the Seattle Art Museum, half the city read it on the way past. The museum’s own director called it a landmark. Its happy-face logo, captioned Have An Erotic Day!, is where Nirvana got the idea for theirs.
Last posting, June 2010
THANK YOU
FOR 25 YEARS
And on the other side
LUSTY LATER
It closed in June 2010, killed by the recession and by internet pornography, which had made the trip downtown unnecessary. The buildings around it had emptied out first.
One thing worth separating, because it gets attached to the wrong city. The Lusty Lady that unionised was the San Francisco one, on Kearny Street: its dancers organised in 1997 as the first successfully unionised sex business in the United States, bought the place outright for $400,000 in 2003 and ran it as a worker cooperative until it closed in September 2013. Seattle’s was the original and the more famous sign, but the union was down the coast.
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