Lap Dance Ban in L.A.!!??!! What the helll?

[Hanuman]

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[Bandit]

1. Just goes to show you need to vote for Mary Carey

She will not only make them legal but tax deductable.

[ant]

2. this made me laugh

I can almost guarantee that many of these clubs will go under if the dancers are required to stay 6 feet away from the patron.

Yeah...I'm sure that if the men can't get lap dances then they will outright REFUSE to see pretty naked women dance at all.

Who are you trying to kid? ;)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. OK but let's look at the WHOLE picture

The ban follows rising complaints by people living near adult cabaret clubs about prostitution, drug use, excessive noise and streets littered with condoms.

These clubs are USUALLY NOT in wealthy areas for GOOD reason. Rich people have more power to keep them out, poor people don't.

People who are socioeconomically disadvantaged deserve better. The clubs certainly could have afforded neighborhood security to ensure their patrons did NOT disrupt the neighborhoods...they didn't care.

Let me ask you...if the clubs were in more industrial areas rather than residential...would this even have been an issue?

[amazona]

4. interesting

In a recent thread, woman after woman denied that "her" man had any physical contact with the strippers in the clubs he visited...yet we all know intuitively that "somehow" "mysteriously" many clubs will be shut down if the dancers are no longer allowed to masturbate men's groins with their bare butts.

Personally, I feel that women should be free to sell their bodies if they like, as long as it doesn't occur in MY neighborhood where it impacts MY property values...but lap dancing is a form of prostitution that used to be called the dry hustle. Nothing more. Nothing less. It is certainly not a "new" industry. It is putting a commercial face on a very old con game. These days all those "support personnel" you cite have their hands out, dancers have to tip everybody out to get the right to work, and most dancers make quite a lot less than they did a decade ago.