Ocean City, MD: City Official Reveals True Intent Of Strip Club Restrictions
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007All over America, governments at the state, county, and city levels are enacting restrictions on “sexually oriented” businesses such as strip clubs. These restrictions are designed for one purpose only: to harm the ability of clubs to do business.
These restrictions make strip clubs less economically viable by not allowing the sale of alcohol or nudity and pushes them out on the fringes away from population centers and the customers who patronize them. These arbitrary and unnecessary regulations enable governments to punitively circumvent prior court rulings upholding free expression rights of citizens.
In a news article, Ocean City, Maryland, city planner Jesse Houston was quoted as saying: “There must be sites physically and legally available for (adult oriented) uses according to the First Amendment. Whether these locations are economically viable is not relevant.”
Thus, city planner Houston has revealed the true intent of these types of strip club restrictions.