SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco city officials are putting the brakes on plans for a pornography studio to move into the old SF Armory on Mission Street.
According to KCBS reporter Barbara Taylor, the deal for the move is not final.
For years city officials had envisioned turning the old armory into housing but that ended when Kink.com, a porn film company, bought the building for its new studio.
Some neighbors have expressed concern over the business moving in and now Mayor Gavin Newsom [pictured] is asking the Planning Commission to get involved.
A spokesman for Newsom, Peter Raggone, said he wants a public hearing. “The simple fact is, is that many people who live in the Mission, feel like they haven’t had a chance to weigh in on the fact that the S&M porn studio is going to be going into their neighborhood,” he said.
But Kink.com CEO Peter Acworth sees the hearing as a chance to win new friends. “We welcome the discussion and want to talk with the neighborhood groups and I think that when we get a chance to talk I will be able to diffuse a lot of the misunderstandings about this,” he said.
He said all the kinky sex will be behind closed doors and will be no more apparent to the public than any other sex in the neighborhood.