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Adult Movie Theatres in Philadelphia

Pennsylvania · last checked 24 September 2026

Philadelphia still has a room with a screen and seats in it, which puts it ahead of most of this list. Scorpio, off Juniper Street in Center City, runs a small multi-screen theatre and a bank of peep booths, and there is a second shop with booths up on State Road. The Forum on Market Street, the city’s last real porn palace, is a car park.

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Scorpio Adult Boutique and Video

Theatre

205 South Juniper Street, Center City, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Theatre
Three big screens, leather couches
Booths
Private peep booths, around 2,000 channels
Hours
10am to 11pm Monday to Thursday, 10am to 2am Friday and Saturday, 10am to 8pm Sunday
Phone
(215) 545-2181

A block off Broad Street, which makes it the most central venue anywhere on this site. The theatre is small and reviewers are frank about its condition; the booths get consistently better notices.

Last checked 24 September 2026 · Listing refreshed April 2026

Fantasy Island Adult Book Store

Booth arcade

7363 State Road, Holmesburg, Philadelphia, PA 19136

Booths
Private viewing booths
Hours
9am to midnight Monday to Thursday, 9am to 4am Friday and Saturday, midday to 10pm Sunday
Phone
(215) 332-5454

Up in the north-east, near Cottman Avenue, and open until four in the morning at weekends. It states plainly that women and couples are welcome, which not every venue of this kind bothers to say.

Last checked 24 September 2026 · Listing refreshed September 2026

Do not go looking for the Forum

2208 Market Street has been a car park since 2013. The Forum is still carried by guides and still turns up in searches for adult cinemas in Philadelphia, because for years it was the only answer. The building is gone, not merely closed.

The last porn palace

The Forum Theater at 2208 Market Street, Philadelphia, in June 2012. Its marquee reads TWO XXX ADULT HITS, EXCLUSIVE FIRST RUN, 3 NEW SHOWS EVERY FRIDAY AND TUESDAY, with a Chinese restaurant next door and a condominium tower behind advertising low interest mortgages.
2208 Market Street in June 2012, six months before the end. Two XXX adult hits, exclusive first run, three new shows every Friday and Tuesday. Behind it, a condo tower advertising once-in-a-lifetime pricing. Photo Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Forum opened on 14 July 1972 with a single screen and 250 seats, and it outlasted every other adult cinema in the city by decades. Philadelphia Magazine went to see it in 2007 and called it the last porn palace, which by then it was.

It did not fall to a raid or an ordinance. The city had refused the owners permission to expand the Forum to take in Les Gals, a venue a block away, after the neighbours objected. Then the rent went unpaid.

  1. 01September 2012The landlord sues the Forum's operator over $29,000 of unpaid rent.
  2. 0230 November 2012Eviction notice served.
  3. 03First week of December 2012The Forum shows its last film after forty years.
  4. 04February 2013Demolished. The site becomes parking.
Five months from the writ to the rubble.

Look at the photograph again. The banner on the tower behind the marquee is advertising mortgages at once-in-a-lifetime pricing. That block was worth more as somewhere to park than as somewhere to sit, and the same arithmetic has closed more of these places than every court case on this site put together.

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