The community of almost 17,000 people has one adult store, Pure Pleasure Adult Megacenter, which opened in 2006. City authorities fought the business and passed a law to stop it from opening, leading to negotiations between the city attorney and Pure Pleasure's attorney Louis Serkin to open the store.
"The city attorney agreed with Lou Sirkin that the store should be allowed to be opened," Pure Pleasure owner Don Kleinhans told XBIZ. "An agreement was drafted. We had to give in on viewing booths. We had to remove them from the premises. We can function as full adult retail, as long as there's no viewing on premise, the windows have to be opaque, the verbiage on the sign had to be approved. It says 'Pure Pleasure Adult Megacenter.' We're in 100 percent compliance, and we have had zero police calls to the property."
Alderman Norman Miller said he hopes the new ordinance means Fairview Heights won't allow any other sexually oriented businesses in the city and Pure Pleasure could be "grandfathered out."
"If we go to court, we go to court," Miller said at the meeting.
Alderwoman Carol Warner, the lone no vote, said she voted against the ordinance "because it violates the U.S. Constitution, and we all know that."
Kleinhans told XBIZ that he had not seen the ordinance and he did not know if it applied to Pure Pleasure.
