In New Orleans, an 'Anti-Trafficking' Initiative Is a Clear Move to Criminalize Strip Clubs
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Enterprising Strippers Organize #NYCStripperStrike in Response to Pervasive and Racist Pay Disparities
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.
Report: the Rigged Lamestream Media Kicked Back with the Trump Campaign at a Las Vegas Strip Club
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…
Why Are Strippers More Heavily Vetted Than Uber Drivers?
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 Wants to Work in a Strip Club Called Washington, I Guess
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:
Pentagon Investigating Whether Thousands Spent at Strip Clubs, Casinos Was Business-Related or What
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…
Former DC Councilman Starts New Career as Gay Male Strip Club Boss
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.”
Oregon Strippers to Lobby Legislature for Better Working Conditions
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…
Don't Be an Idiot at the Strip Club: A Stripper's Guide
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…
Determined Man Absconds with Ambulance, Heads to Strip Club
Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.
In Houston, the City and Its Strip Clubs Call an Uneasy Truce
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.
Court Rules That Lap Dances Aren't Dramatic and Artistic Enough for Tax Exemption
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…
NY Strip Club Seeks Tax Exemption Because Art
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…
The Art of the National Convention Strip Club Trend Piece
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?"
Your Magic Mike Dreams, Shattered: There Are No Male Strip Clubs in Tampa
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.
Strip Clubs in Illinois Will Now Pay a New Tax to Help Fund Rape Crisis Centers
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,…
Strip Club Hires Sarah Palin Lookalike Just in Time for Republican National Convention
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…
Treatment For Rape Without Insurance Costs More Than Some Good Used Cars
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.
Strip Club Business Is Doing Just Great Because Of GOP Conventions, Thanks For Asking
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:…
Strip Clubs Say Taxes Violate Freedom Of Expression
Strip clubs in Texas are supposed to pay a special tax to help fund sexual assault prevention programs. But some allege the tax violates clubs' First Amendment rights — and lots of clubs simply aren't paying.