Stormy Daniels, the porn actor currently suing Donald Trump for defamation after a 2006 affair, was arrested early Thursday morning at a strip club in Columbus, Ohio, for allegedly touching some of the club’s patrons while she was on stage, CNN reports. Daniels posted a bail of $6,054 and was quickly released.
For Women’s History Month, Jezebel and The Root are partnering for JezeRoot, a series that focuses on women of color, domestic workers, and sex workers.
On October 22, Gizelle Marie, a 29-year-old Bronx native who has worked as a stripper since she was 18, was venting over Snapchat with some of her fellow dancers about how she was fed up with all the stories of mistreatment she’d heard about—particularly of darker skinned dancers.
The New York Post’s Page Six is reporting that a group of reporters from the rigged, dishonest, lamestream, Clinton-loving media went to a strip club in Las Vegas with senior Trump campaign officials. What better outing for a group of media professionals and the campaign staff of a man accused of an ever-growing…
After losing an extended, expensive fight in Austin over an ordinance passed in December that mandated fingerprinting for ridesharing drivers, Uber and Lyft have ceased operating in the city. Drivers are upset about the loss of income. Riders are angry about being stuck with Austin’s insufficient cab service. Everyone…
Mike Huckabee has a new ad. (In related and probably somewhat surprising news for most of the country, Mike Huckabee is still running for president, polling at around 6 percent.) In an exceedingly strained metaphor, the ad compares Washington D.C. to a strip club of some kind:
The Pentagon is looking into whether Defense Department employees tried to get the U.S. government to reimburse them for all the money they spent at strip clubs and casinos. Not whether military personnel spent tons of money at strip clubs and casinos, because they sure, sure did—no, just if they tried to get paid…
Only in Washington, D.C. can a former city councilman become a gay strip club impresario. Meet Jim Graham, the 69-year-old former politician with a new start-up touting topless men and screaming patrons at something he calls “Rock Hard Sundays.”
A group of Oregon strippers are planning to lobby the state legislature to implement better health and safety requirements for strip clubs, including better security and a requirement to display a poster about entertainers' rights. It's the first time a group of dancers have used the legislative system to push for…
It's your birthday, hurray! You're going to a strip club with a bunch of your lesbian friends, fun! You're bringing LIKE SIXTY GODDAMN PEOPLE and you want them all to act right, so you send out a long letter filled with well-intended but frequently wrong advice and thoughts on how strip-club-going squares with your…
Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.
It's an odd American dichotomy, the South's bible belt blended with a thriving strip club economy. But in Houston, that very chasm is the source of a 16 year lawsuit from the city against a number of local clubs.
The New York Court of Appeals in Albany upheld a lower court ruling that lap dances are not entitled to tax exemption because they're not, "dramatic or musical arts performances." Not dramatic? Really? Because there isn't a difference between "highbrow dance and lowbrow dance," in New York state law, this case could…
A strip club just outside of Albany called Nite Moves made the case Wednesday in New York's Court of Appeals that its cover charge ($11) and lap dance fees ($20 for three minutes) shouldn't be subject to the state's eight percent sales tax because naked dancing is an art form, not unlike ballet. After a 2005 audit of…
Being a stripper means that other people will never run out of questions for you. "How much money do you make?" "Can they touch you?" "Do you do that thing on the pole?" "Who tips better, Democrats or Republicans?"
If you're planning on one day visiting scenic Tampa, Florida and replicating the Magic Mike experience at a local establishment staffed by dancing dudes who take their pants off, I've got some bad news. There is no all-male revue in Tampa. Magic Mike was a bulging lie.
On Saturday, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law that will force strip clubs to pay an additional tax, which will in turn be used to fund programs aimed at preventing sexual assault as well as counseling sexual assault victims. The new tax is expected to haul in about $1 million a year for rape prevention programs,…
Hoping to capitalize on conservative men's possibly-lingering collective crush, a Tampa Bay strip club has hired a Sarah Palin lookalike to headline during the Republican National Convention in an attempt to draw in business. But this Faux-Palin just any exotic dancer — she's adult film star Lisa Ann, who played Sarah…
First of all, here is a 1996 Subaru on sale in Wilton, Connecticut for $3,995. Let's all just let that marinate in our brain-juice for a second.
With the Republican National Convention close at hand, the host city of Tampa's preparing their local strip clubs for the deluge of GOP patrons that will be pouring in with singles. As it turns out, the RNC singlehandedly buoys struggling strip joints out of debt and improves the town's economy (obviously this is re:…
