NationStates Jolt Archive


Strippers go down on, I mean to, the San Francisco city hall.

Drunk commies deleted
07-08-2006, 19:28
San Francisco, or Iran as I like to call them, is considering banning the use of private rooms in strip clubs. These repressed, conservative, hyper-moral government officials want to eliminate a big money maker for these single women who are often trying to work their way through college. They'll force dancers to make appointments for private sessions in sleazy motel rooms where the risk of encountering an abusive trick or a serial killer is much higher.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/05/BAGQEKBSMH1.DTL
Deep Kimchi
07-08-2006, 19:29
San Francisco, or Iran as I like to call them, is considering banning the use of private rooms in strip clubs. These repressed, conservative, hyper-moral government officials want to eliminate a big money maker for these single women who are often trying to work their way through college. They'll force dancers to make appointments for private sessions in sleazy motel rooms where the risk of encountering an abusive trick or a serial killer is much higher.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/05/BAGQEKBSMH1.DTL


Maybe gays want the heterosexuals to have sex somewhere out of sight, where it won't gross them out.
Drunk commies deleted
07-08-2006, 19:46
Maybe gays want the heterosexuals to have sex somewhere out of sight, where it won't gross them out.
Then they should support the existence of private rooms in the strip clubs.
PootWaddle
07-08-2006, 19:52
Maybe gays want the heterosexuals to have sex somewhere out of sight, where it won't gross them out.

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k23/PootWaddle/DohGeez.jpg
Wanderjar
07-08-2006, 19:57
I personally wouldn't utilize a private room for a strip club, (or would I? ;))



But that doesn't mean that some dudes wouldn't. Thats really dumb. But you can thank the religious right for that one.
PootWaddle
07-08-2006, 20:17
But that doesn't mean that some dudes wouldn't. Thats really dumb. But you can thank the religious right for that one.

How are you going to blame the religious right for this one? San Francisco’s Commission on the Status of Women is NOT likely to be a hot bed of religious conservatism...
Call to power
07-08-2006, 20:28
must be one of those things were the people in power think that nothing bad will happen if they ban this because they doubted anyone would show themselves to complain whereas they think they can score some cheap support from parents and the religious community
The Aeson
07-08-2006, 20:29
Maybe gays want the heterosexuals to have sex somewhere out of sight, where it won't gross them out.

Therefore they're banning the use of private rooms? That makes no sense...
Drunk commies deleted
07-08-2006, 20:32
I personally wouldn't utilize a private room for a strip club, (or would I? ;))



But that doesn't mean that some dudes wouldn't. Thats really dumb. But you can thank the religious right for that one.
Wait, I use the private rooms. What's stupid about that? Sometimes you just want to be alone with the dancer. Well, maybe you don't but I do.
PootWaddle
07-08-2006, 20:34
Did you people even read the article? What’s with all this religious-right scapegoating?

The committee was/is thinking about getting rid of the rooms because they were told that the club owners were forcing the dancers to pay room compensation unfairly at extortion rates, and thus, forcing the girls to try and make more money in the rooms, as implied.
Xenophobialand
07-08-2006, 20:37
Therefore they're banning the use of private rooms? That makes no sense...

It makes sense if you've outlawed prostitution and you've received reports that dancers are using private rooms to engage in prostitution. Now, that still doesn't in my mind justify the ban (I've been in places both with and without private rooms, minus prostitution in either case, and the with was by far superior even at the higher price), and I'm at best ambiguous about banning prostitution anyway, but I'm thinking that this was really just a case where local politicians made a decision without considering the unintended consequences, namely that the loss of money from the loss of private rooms will force dancers elsewhere.