Strip Club News

It looks like every state in the union is trying to infringe on the constitutionally protected rights of American citizens.

Kansas is the latest state to consider harsh new regulations on strip clubs with the intention of making it more difficult to conduct business.

Current proposals are working their way through legislative committee. In addition to a typical requirement that adult businesses be located at least 1,000 feet from schools, churches, and residences, are conditions that could prohibit nudity and ban the sale of alcohol. Not only could people not drink where nude entertainment is taking place, but strip clubs would be required to close at midnight and all dancers would have to remain six feet away from patrons. So no more lap dances in Kansas if this passes.

Many strip clubs don’t even start getting busy until midnight. A 12 AM closing time would surely hurt the income potential of club owners and dancers, which is the underlying goal of these types of restrictions.

Not long after opening for business, the owner of Casa Diablo strip club in Portland, OR, has put the establishment up for sale.

The asking price for the property is $995,000, according to this listing. And the Craigslist entry.

We get visitors every day who are looking to open a strip club. Right now probably isn’t the best time given the weakening economy. Strip clubs are closing all the time, so it isn’t a business that is immune to failure.

The reason for the owner of Casa Diablo selling is not known. However, we have seen an example such as this where an owner opens a strip club then sells it after a short time before.

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of a suit challenging the ordinances in Houston, TX, which could put most strip clubs out of business, effectively upholding the dangerously restrictive 1997 law.

Clubs have been battling the Houston ordinance for the past ten years. Houston law restricts strip clubs from operating within a completely arbitrary distance of 1,500 feet from residential neighborhoods, schools, parks, and day care centers, and prevents other strip clubs from operating within a certain distance of a similar business.

The goal of this ordinance is not to protect the populace from naked women writhing behind closed doors, unseen by passersby. The intent is to shut strip clubs down by making it impossible to find any land that satisfies the distance requirements, which is nearly impossible in most urban areas, and this is by design.

When the police in Houston begin enforcing the law, many clubs will be forced to close. The city, in typical fashion, argues that strip clubs create negative secondary effects on neighboring areas. But how does a woman removing her clothing cause crime, graffiti, and blight? Nobody knows.

More lawsuits are expected to be filed by club owners when enforcement action begins.

We here at Strip Club Central have never heard of anyone going on a crime rampage because they saw a woman without her clothes on. Have you?

“Look, there’s a booby! I better go shoot someone!” Sorry, but that king of thing does not happen.

County commissioners in Lawrence County, Missouri, are planning a ballot initiative to discourage strip clubs from opening in the area. Their planned weapon: excessive taxation.

Currently, there are no gentlemen’s clubs in Lawrence County. The freedom stealing politicians aim to keep it that way by levying a 10% tax on a strip club’s gross income should any come to the area. The proposal would only apply to strip clubs, thus it is nothing more than politicians using the power of government to rob consenting adults of their court-affirmed rights to enjoy nude entertainment.

Residents of the county will vote on the proposed tax on April 8th. If it passes, it will be temporary and need to be renewed again in another four years.

More and more, governments are using their power of taxation to injure the ability of strip clubs to do business, of dancers to make a living, and to punish the millions of law-abiding people who enjoy the live entertainment they find at strip clubs. At the top of the year Texas began a $5 per head tax on strip club patrons. New Mexico is considering a similar tax. Other states are looking at proposals along the same vein.

If the citizenry does not want strip clubs to exist, they won’t exist because the clubs won’t have any customers and will go out of business. The people will vote with their dollar. It’s as simple as that.

Hopefully, state and federal courts will put a stop to this tactic of using taxation as a weapon against free expression. Otherwise, the United States will be regressing back to an era where the human body was viewed as shameful instead of beautiful. If this assault on strip clubs continues, you can rest assured that similar tactics will be used against other forms of speech that politicians and their vocal constituents wish to suppress.

We are on a slippery slope toward oppression. The enemies are on both the left and the right. A revolution at the ballot box may not be enough this time around.