Strip Club News

Flesh Club in San Bernardino, California, will be closed for at least the next eight months as a result of a decision by Superior Court Judge Donald Alvarez.

The strip club was closed for allegedly allowing sex acts to occur in its VIP rooms. The city has been fighting with the club for at least a decade, claiming that it is a house of prostitution. As of November 14th, the club is shut down. The city has won—albeit temporarily—as the club may re-open after its court-ordered closure is done.

During the lengthy trial, dancers and private investigators testified that prostitution was a regular occurrence inside the club.

Judge Alvaraz also fined the owner $25,000.

After failing to garner enough signatures to petition a statewide vote on new strip club restrictions, Ohio adult entertainment business owners have now taken their battle court.

The new law that was passed earlier this year and went into effect last month forces strip clubs to close at midnight and enacts harsh new penalties for innocuous contact between patrons and dancers.

A coalition of adult entertainment businesses has asked US District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. to throw out the new law on the basis that it unconstitutionally restricts free expression and is too vague.

Originally, the coalition of business owners tried to force a statewide vote by collecting enough petition signatures, but fell short by 60,000 despite spending a reported $1.5 million on the campaign.

Opponents of adult entertainment businesses argue that gentlemen’s clubs increase crime, lower property values, degrade women, cause child molestation, and generally contribute to the destruction of society. All that from a naked woman…simply amazing.

We wish Ohio strip club owners and the patrons who enjoy those fine gentlemen’s clubs the best of luck in their battle against this egregious infringement of civil rights.

This past Saturday an employee of Good Guys in Washington DC was set on fire by an angry patron who was kicked out of the gentlemen’s club and returned a short while later to exact revenge.

A customer described as a bald Middle Eastern or Hispanic male was made to leave the club for taking pictures of the dancers. He returned 15 minutes later and doused the employee with gasoline and set him on fire inside the club.

The victim, described as a bartender or assistant manager, has second and third degree burns over 80 percent of his body. His condition was upgraded from critical to critical but stable Sunday. Doctors are hopeful he will survive.