What is that ineffable quality that makes a strip club a strip club? Is it the stale smell of spilled eight-dollar beers wafting from behind skeevy VIP curtains? Is it the stereo booming "Pour Some Sugar on Me?" Or is it really all about the women dancing naked?That question came before a court in Iowa recently, where strip clubs are outlawed but "art centers" are allowed to have "nude dancing." A judge in Fremont County is set to decide whether such an art center in the town of Hamburg called Shotgun Geniez has broken the law. The outcome could have repercussions for similar establishments throughout the state.
The case stems from an incident that sounds like the beginning of a joke -- the 17-year-old daughter of the town's sheriff climbed up on stage of an art center a year ago and took it all off, resulting in the club's owner being charged with violating state laws. He claims dance is an art and notes that patrons are offered sketch pads.
Question Raised: What makes a strip club a strip club?
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Monday 04 August
By Margaret
What makes a strip club a strip club? The trash inside it. This is not art, it's living porn pure and simple and it is degrading to anyone involved. Most decent men wouldn't think of going inside one of these joints. And the men that do often try to hide it? Because it is not respectable. Sketch Pads? Who is this guy kidding? You want to study and sketch the human form? Go to art school.
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Monday 04 August
By Jimmy
Hey Margaret.....do you actually believe your statement..."Most decent men wouldn't think of going inside one of these joints?" Then you'd be very surprised sweetie, because almost ALL men have patronized a strip club of some type or another in their lives and are not ashamed of it. These men are single, married, separated or divorced, but the vast majority are in heterosexual relationships and most of them have children. These men also come from ALL fields of work, including blue-collar workers, business managers, executives and owners, teachers, professors, engineers, attorneys, doctors, etc., etc., etc. I'm a high school teacher myself. Considering you're probably a fat, prudish, frigid, cold fish, let me enlighten you on some startling news. MEN LOVE AND LOVE TO WATCH NUDE IN-SHAPE YOUNG WOMEN!!! It's hardwired into our DNA and our hormones will not let us forget it. We men should NEVER feel guilty or ashamed of anything so natural, regardless of your or any other woman's puritanical views on the subject.
Tuesday 05 August
By Jen
Margaret,
You are absolutely, right on....through my experiences in life, you couldn't have said it better.
Tuesday 05 August
By Jimmy
Hey Margaret.....do you actually believe your statement..."Most decent men wouldn't think of going inside one of these joints?" Then you'd be very surprised sweetie, because almost ALL men have patronized a strip club of some type or another in their lives and are not ashamed of it. These men are single, married, separated or divorced, but the vast majority are in heterosexual relationships and most of them have children. These men also come from ALL fields of work, including blue-collar workers, business managers, executives and owners, teachers, professors, engineers, attorneys, doctors, etc., etc., etc. I'm a high school teacher myself. Considering you're probably a fat, prudish, frigid, cold fish, let me enlighten you on some startling news. MEN LOVE AND LOVE TO WATCH NUDE IN-SHAPE YOUNG WOMEN!!! It's hardwired into our DNA and our hormones will not let us forget it. We men should NEVER feel guilty or ashamed of anything so natural, regardless of your or any other woman's puritanical views on the subject.
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Tuesday 05 August
By Flawoodpecker
I love the art of a naked woman.
Tuesday 05 August
By Lori
Jimmy, Margaret said most decent men....that doesn't refer to normal men like you in America and elsewhere that would take advantage of legal strip clubs in America to fondle, kiss, and oogle strippers. Decent men are rare and few. Men like you are common and boorish. Normal men like you are too self centered and narcisstic to realize girls that strip do so because they were raped, molested, or suffer from some personality disorder(like yours) that has handicapped them from understanding or remembering their modesty or morality in general. So men like you, will continue to prey on damaged women like strippers, perps continuing to prey on victims of other perps in their past. Doesn't make you normal, makes you sick and common which is why this profession has been allowed to persist. Now men that refuse to participate in strip clubs, etc, and healthy, warm, affectionate, beautiful, and sexy women like me will continue to wonder why Americans degrade our country by allowing these pits of embarrassment to persist but hey then we remember that with freedom, perversion will always find a way to exercise it's sick mind and sick acts. So, on that note, to any males who are willing to learn how to be real men and not perps....stop perping at the clubs and in your bedrooms, offices, living rooms, hotels, just say no to porn. You will go thru withdrawal(serious withdrawal) but you will survive and be able to hold your head high around your yourself(in front of a mirror),girlfriend, wife, or kids knowing you have your integrity, a healthy conscience, no genital warts and a life free from abusing already abused strippers/girls.
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Sunday 10 August
By Sage
Brilliant. Lori. Love your style! Love Sage
Tuesday 05 August
By LAINIE
LORI, YOU HAVE IT EXACTLY RIGHT. I USED TO WORK IN A STRIP CLUB AND ME AND ALL THE OTHER GIRLS DID HAVE SOME BAD STUFF HAPPEN IN OUR PASTS. SOME WERE STILL BEING ABUSED. I WORKED IN A PRETTY UPSCALE PLACE AND THE MEN THAT WOULD VISIT OFTEN WERE PRETTY REGULAR,MOST TIPPED REALLY WELL. MOST OF US THOUGHT THEY WERE PATHETIC AND DESPERATE BUT I DON'T REGRET STRIPPING BECAUSE IT PAID MY BILLS AND I WAS ABLE TO SAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO GET AN EDUCATION. I AM IN MY LAST YEAR OF COLLEGE. WHAT I DO REGRET IS HOW MANY MEN I MUST HAVE GIVEN AN STD TO. BUT THEN AGAIN THAT JUST COMES WITH THE TERRITORY. LAINIE
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Tuesday 12 August
By Sage
I thought you said you stripped for men, not SLEPT with them? So in actual fact, you were a prostitute also? Be honest. You know, a lot of bad things happen to other girls and they dont use it as an excuse to strip, OR sleep around. Sage
Thursday 07 August
By Sage
Well you reap what you sow dont you? And if you play with fire, you will get burned. The people concerned in all of this are human beings, who shall all answer to their own actions. So be it. Simple. What is crooked cannot be made straight except by our lord. However, a woman needs to feel she is most important in her mans life, including sexually, so if her man continues in this way to abuse her faith and trust in him then how can any relationship between them last, without the deepest resentment. When a woman strips or tempts another girl's man, there is always another girl to tempt hers. At the end of the day we all have choice, and know the difference between right and wrong. Yes there is temptation, and we all are prey to it. So we must guard against it. Frequenting these places is not the way to do that, as it just fuels the fires of passion within ourselves. Call it fun, call it harmless, but realise it isnt. Then accept and live with, your own concience. Sage
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Saturday 04 October
By debs
I want to know just how far lap dances go? My fiance tried to convince me men are not allowed to touch, still, a naked woman grinding on his lap and tits in his face while he does who knows what to her (as much is as sh allows depending on how much he is tipping I'm sure)! Tell me please in detail what REALLY happens!
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