Strip Clubs Facing Extinction In Houston, Texas
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.