Lap Dancing Faces Legal Threat

Ted C · Post by **Ted C** » 2003-06-11 01:14pm

Not that I agree with the ban, but the "slippery slope" argument the defense is using is glaringly obvious after participating in arguments here for a little while.

Lap Dancing Faces Legal Threat

Ice · Post by **Ice** » 2003-06-11 03:04pm

The Stroy wrote:But the measure, which must win the approval of the full city council, was compared by the thriving adult entertainment industry in Los Angeles to draconian morality laws imposed by the former Taliban government in Afghanistan.

Compared to Afghanistan? Hell, compare it to Tampa, Florida while you're at it. We have the same fucking thing here. Those bastards!

Touching of any kind between entertainers and customers at adult clubs would also be banned under an ordinance that would require dancers to stay at least 6 feet away from patrons.

Hey, Illum and Phong, sound familiar to you, too?

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-06-11 03:07pm

whats wrong with lap dancing, again?

Ice · Post by **Ice** » 2003-06-11 03:09pm

Enforcer Talen wrote:whats wrong with lap dancing, again?

Nothing, unless you're one of those moral law pricks. If you don't like it...then don't go inside you dumbasses!

Ted C · Post by **Ted C** » 2003-06-11 03:23pm

There were complaints that prostitution was occurring (in which case they should prosecute the perpetrators on the appropriate charge) and that noise from the club was bothering the neighbors (in which case they should prosecute the club for violating the local noise ordinance, if there actually is one). Naturally, the solution is to create a law defining a victimless crime.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-06-11 03:43pm

Prostitution occurring? You mean people doing what they want with their own bodies? Surely not!

Ted C · Post by **Ted C** » 2003-06-11 03:45pm

Durandal wrote:Prostitution occurring? You mean people doing what they want with their own bodies? Surely not!

Indeed, people were allegedly committing the heinous and evil act of selling orgasms to consenting adults.

Raoul Duke, Jr. · Post by **Raoul Duke, Jr.** » 2003-06-11 03:47pm

Ted C wrote:There were complaints that prostitution was occurring (in which case they should prosecute the perpetrators on the appropriate charge) and that noise from the club was bothering the neighbors (in which case they should prosecute the club for violating the local noise ordinance, if there actually is one). Naturally, the solution is to create a law defining a victimless crime.

Of course, it's much easier to just write a new law than to enforce existing ones. Probably more fun, anyway.

SeebianWurm · Post by **SeebianWurm** » 2003-06-11 03:56pm

When else do they get to use the magic marker?

Macross · Post by **Macross** » 2003-06-12 01:59am

Enforcer Talen wrote:whats wrong with lap dancing, again?

They cost to much!

I was in Las Vegas for a friends bachelor party, and the lap dances there were 1 for $30 or 3 for $100.

Sad part is, people were actually paying for 3...

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-06-12 05:23am

Ted C wrote:There were complaints that prostitution was occurring (in which case they should prosecute the perpetrators on the appropriate charge) and that noise from the club was bothering the neighbors (in which case they should prosecute the club for violating the local noise ordinance, if there actually is one). Naturally, the solution is to create a law defining a victimless crime.

Like this law will stop the prostitution that might be occuring...

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-06-12 08:03am

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-06-12 08:20am

Macross wrote:
Enforcer Talen wrote:whats wrong with lap dancing, again?
They cost to much!

I was in Las Vegas for a friends bachelor party, and the lap dances there were 1 for $30 or 3 for $100.

Sad part is, people were actually paying for 3...

dude, go to Montreal, at some of the clubs it's $10 CAN for topless and $20 CAN for all nude. Ahhhhh Canada! The great Northern land filled with fine beer and nudie bars from sea to shining sea!

Raoul Duke, Jr. · Post by **Raoul Duke, Jr.** » 2003-06-12 12:51pm

EmperorMing wrote:
Ted C wrote:There were complaints that prostitution was occurring (in which case they should prosecute the perpetrators on the appropriate charge) and that noise from the club was bothering the neighbors (in which case they should prosecute the club for violating the local noise ordinance, if there actually is one). Naturally, the solution is to create a law defining a victimless crime.
Like this law will stop the prostitution that might be occuring...

I often wonder how smart people have to be to put up with stupid shit like that. Somebody's breaking the law! Quick -- pass another law! If they'd just enforce the fucking laws that already exist, they might actually accomplish something.

Of course, as cynicism grows, I realize that the only thing lawmakers exist for is to sponge up tax dollars and find ways to look busy.

Raoul Duke, Jr. · Post by **Raoul Duke, Jr.** » 2003-06-12 12:52pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:
Macross wrote:
Enforcer Talen wrote:whats wrong with lap dancing, again?
They cost to much!

I was in Las Vegas for a friends bachelor party, and the lap dances there were 1 for $30 or 3 for $100.

Sad part is, people were actually paying for 3...
dude, go to Montreal, at some of the clubs it's $10 CAN for topless and $20 CAN for all nude. Ahhhhh Canada! The great Northern land filled with fine beer and nudie bars from sea to shining sea!

If you are trying to entice me to expatriate, good sir, I'll have you know that it's working.

Ice · Post by **Ice** » 2003-06-12 03:34pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:dude, go to Montreal, at some of the clubs it's $10 CAN for topless and $20 CAN for all nude. Ahhhhh Canada! The great Northern land filled with fine beer and nudie bars from sea to shining sea!

I don't suppose there're any US Navy bases there for me to get stationed at in four years?

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-06-14 08:20pm

Unless Canada really is the 51st state, no.

Stupid idiots. If strip dancing is outlawed, then that means no unionizing, and thus horrid working conditions as the strippers continue their work anyway.