Adult Movie Theatres in Little Rock

What is still open

Cupids Lingerie at 3920 West 65th Street, (501) 753-3353, is open twenty-four hours and is a shop. The branch at 9700 North Rodney Parham Road, (501) 227-8282, runs 10am to 10pm and is also a shop. Both are well reviewed and the staff get named and thanked often, which is more than most places in this directory manage.

Neither has an arcade any more. Nothing else in the city has one either.

The arcades that never reopened

Every other page on this site explains a loss with something you can point at. A clearance order, a prosecution, a licensing rule, a landlord. This one is different and it is probably the commonest cause of all, which is why it is worth setting out properly.

A booth arcade is a room of small enclosed spaces used by strangers one after another. In March 2020 every one of them in the country shut. Reopening meant spending money on cleaning, on staff and on a part of the business that had been losing ground to the internet for twenty years, and a lot of owners looked at that and simply kept the shop. There is no ordinance to cite and no article was written. The only record is customers turning up and finding a locked door.

The same thing shows up in Rochester, where an arcade was still shut three years after it closed and nobody knew whether it would open again.

And the other door

Arkansas passed Act 612 of 2023, which requires age verification on sites where a substantial share of the content is considered harmful to minors, and attaches civil liability for not doing it. It took effect in the summer of 2023 and, unlike the state’s social media law, it has not been struck down.

The two laws get confused constantly, including by people who should know better. The social media one, Act 689, was declared unconstitutional and permanently blocked. Act 612, the adult content one, was not part of that case.

In 2025 the Supreme Court upheld a Texas law of the same kind, which leaves laws like Act 612 on firmer ground than they were. We are summarising secondary trackers here rather than the statute itself, so treat this as the shape of the law and not as advice.

The point for a reader in this state is simple enough. The booths closed in 2020 and the websites started asking for ID in 2023. If it feels harder to find this than it used to be, that is not your imagination.

What we could not find

No adult cinema is recorded in Little Rock. Not one. We went through the cinema archives for this city and found the Rex, the Roxy, the Capitol, the Palace, the Gem, the Arkansas and the Center, and not a single entry describes an adult or X-rated period for any of them.

What the record does say is that downtown emptied westwards. The Center closed in 1977 as the last cinema on Main Street, and the Arkansas Theatre on South Louisiana Street closed the same year as the last one downtown at all. The Rex and the Roxy were pulled down and a parking garage stands where they were. The Capitol was replaced by a bank tower.

That is an absence rather than a finding, and it might only mean nobody wrote it down. For a state capital of this size it is still unusual, and we would rather say we could not find it than invent a scene for the city.