Minors in Rhode Island can be strippers . . .

[abumbyanyothername]

As long as they are home by 11:30 on school nights . . . .

http://www.projo.com/news/content/teen_dancers_07-21-09_Q6F39ID_v80.3985e27.html

[Hello_Kitty]

1. WTF??

I'm sure some of our Kewl Liberal Dewds will be along soon to defend this.

[DefenseLawyer]

2. Aren't they pretty tired after work?

Oh wait, I misread that... nevermind.

[bluestateguy]

3. Sounds like a loophole in state law

which can, and should, be fixed.

[Joanne98]

4. Prostitution is legal in RI

Rhode Island has abolished capital punishment, making it one of 15 states that have done so. Rhode Island abolished the death penalty very early, just after Michigan (the first state to abolish it), and carried out its last execution in the 1840s. Rhode Island is one of two states in which prostitution is legal, provided it takes place indoors, though there have been recent efforts to change this.<31> In a 2009 study Rhode Island was listed as the 9th safest state in the country.<32>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_island

[MADem]

5. Incredible. That's just not good.

. . .Other states have had mixed encounters with the issue.

After a 12-year-old girl was found dancing nude in a club in Dallas last year, the city council swiftly passed rules barring minors from strip clubs and automatically revokes for a year licenses for sex businesses caught employing or entertaining minors.

But an Iowa county judge ruled last year that a striptease by a 17-year-old girl at a strip club was artistic expression protected by the First Amendment. The state attorney general’s office has asked the state Supreme Court to review the ruling.

Nevada, meanwhile, doesn’t let anyone under 18 work in casinos or in public dance halls where there is alcohol — and there are no strip clubs in Nevada without one or the other, or both, said Cartwright, of the attorney general’s office. Minors aren’t even allowed to deliver mail to brothels.

When questioned about Rhode Island’s law, Michael J. Healey, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office, offered a copy of the current state law but did not comment for this article.

But Weston, of the Providence police, was adamant that the law should be changed.

“It leads to a societal breakdown,” he said. “These are just little girls.”

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[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. It's a loophole that is going to be closed......

....along with the one that allows prostitution inside the confines of a private dwelling.

Sheesh, I know we Rhode Islanders are heathens and all, but some of these things aren't our fault.........