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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 18 adult entertainment venues
Best adult entertainment venues in Philadelphia
The 10 most notable adult entertainment venues in Philadelphia, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Venus Video
6307 Passyunk Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.214, percentile 100 of 18
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2
Scorpio Adult Boutique & Video
205 S Juniper St
116 m from Walnut–Locust, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.214, percentile 94.12 of 18
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3
Cheerleaders Philadelphia
2740 S Front St
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.202, percentile 88.24 of 18
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4
Condom Kingdom
437 South St
784 m from 9–10th & Locust, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.111, percentile 82.35 of 18
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5
Sin City Philadelphia
6130 Passyunk Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.085, percentile 76.47 of 18
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6
Danny's Midnight Confessions
133 S 13th St
202 m from Walnut–Locust, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.085, percentile 70.59 of 18
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7
Lou Turk's
500 Powhattan Ave
listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.085, percentile 64.71 of 18
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8
Purple Orchid
3275 S 61st St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.052, percentile 58.82 of 18
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9
19th Hole Lounge
3011 Jenkintown Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.039, percentile 52.94 of 18
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10
Club Philly
1220 Chancellor St
125 m from 12–13th & Locust, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.905, percentile 47.06 of 18
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).