Miami to Shut Down Gay Porn House

MIAMI, FL  --  Miami's Code Enforcement Board ruled late Monday that Phillip Bleicher's Flava Works, an Internet porn production and distribution company, is illegally running an adult entertainment business out of a single-family home in Miami and ordered those operations to cease.

Flava Works own the web site CocoDorm.com, where visitors can watch live video streams from the house. The performers, young males in their twenties, are paid $1,200, plus room, board and meals, to live in the house for a month while having sex with each other on schedule.

"I think the city has met its burden of showing a link between the house on 27th Street and the website," board member Oscar Rodriguez Fonts said.

Benjamin argued that the house, leased by Flava Works from owner Angel Barrios, was not part of an adult entertainment operation because business transactions don't happen at the house but take place at Flava Works' business office elsewhere. He cited a Tampa case where the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a similar operation was not guilty of violations.

"No member of the public came to the location to view, buy, trade or obtain any adult entertainment," Benjamin said.

However, the board found that differences between Miami and Tampa laws scuttled Benjamin's argument, The Miami Herald reports.

"Miami's adult entertainment ordinance encompasses Internet activity in a way the Tampa ordinance did not," Rodriguez Fonts said.