Mobile County, AL Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

02 prohibits, at any licensed establishment (one holding an Alcoholic Beverage Control Board license) in the unincorporated area of Mobile County, employing or using any person to sell or serve alcohol while unclothed or exposing the female breast below the top of the areola, or the male or female pubic hair, anus, cleft of the buttocks, vulva, or genitals. It also bars live entertainment simulating sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, or flagellation, and bars caressing, licking, kissing, or fondling of breasts, buttocks, anus, or genitals, or displaying pubic hair, anus, vulva, or genitals.

Contests, promotions, special nights, or events encouraging patrons to engage in that conduct are also banned. There is one carve-out: premises of a performance house, museum, or theater that derives less than 20 percent of its gross annual income from alcohol sales are exempt from this section. The Legislature's stated basis, found in § 45-49-20, is that nudity and sexual conduct combined with alcohol service in public places threatens the safety, health, and morals of county residents, enacted under the state constitution's local alcohol-regulation authority.

01 limits the ban to 'licensed establishments,' meaning it reaches bars, lounges, and similar alcohol-service venues in the unincorporated county, not businesses without an ABC license.