Petition drive started in response to strip club law
A Cincinnati man began a petition drive today, in response to a Sharonville group's legislative effort to place further restrictions on strip clubs and other adult-oriented businesses.
David Howard of Finneytown created a petition here.
Citizens for Community Values has collected more than 220,000 petition signatures and is asking state lawmakers to pass Senate Bill 16, which would limit club hours and keep patrons at least six-feet away from exotic dancers. The full initiative, as introduced in the state Senate, can be found here.
If the Ohio General Assembly passes new strip club rules by the end of next month, they become law. A proposed initiative goes on the Nov. 6 ballot only if state legislators fail to vote, or make changes that proponents don't agree with.
For more details, see today's article here:
Citizens for Community Values would have to collect another 120,000 by Aug. 8 to place the statewide initiative before Ohio voters on Nov. 6.
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Post a Comment*The SoS and Boards of Elections better check each one of those signatures. This is, after all, an organization that has a history of breaking the law with fraudulent petitions.
http://www.citybeat.com/2006-08-30/news.shtml
Just out of curiosity, how many times do they have to break the law before people stop taking them seriously? I mean, I know reasonable people already don't, but I'm looking for Dick Cheney, or Ann Coulter-like believability.
How pathetic. Another corporate Republican scam to get the value voters to the polls. Last time it was the gays, this time it is sex.
Conservative voters are so gullible. They will never learn that you can't legislate morality. All they accomplish is to elect Republican corporate shills who say one thing and do another.
with all the bad evil things that are going on in this world, a lot if it in the name of my religion is better than yours, it never fails. you can always count on the gang at ccv to do something stupid to save us from ourselves.
perhaps next they can tackle the rampant problem of outhouse parity in our farming communities.
Isn't this group - CCV - closely associated with the people who were just indicted for changing the addresses of petition signers in Cincinnati - falsifying the petitions?
Someone needs to challenge the signatures on the petition and then start asking who CCV is to be involved in any community value issue.
The hypocrits
A strip club is a nightclub or bar that offers striptease and possibly other related services such as lap dances. High-end establishments tend to call themselves gentlemen's clubs. Low-end establishments may be referred to as titty bars or girly bars. Go-go bar may imply a greater focus on stage dancing and music. In a bikini bar dancers are restricted to wearing bikinis or lingerie.
Contents [hide]
1 Clubs
2 Performers
3 Legal issues
4 See also
[edit] Clubs
Men are the primary consumers of this form of entertainment, at straight clubs and gay clubs, but at least one chain, Chippendales, caters mainly to straight women. Since the main attraction of a strip club is the stage show, almost all clubs have a cover charge.
Gentlemen's and strip clubs, are a $5-billion dollar (U.S.) industry, generate approximately 22% of the gross revenue in adult entertainment. Such clubs are also found outside the USA.
Sapphire Gentlemen's Club in Las Vegas has been billed as the world's largest and most expensive strip club; in 2006 it was sold at auction for $80 million.[1] Tampa, Florida is well known for its strip clubs including the famous Mons Venus. Howard Stern makes frequent mention of Scores in New York City.Manila, Bangkok and Pattaya are world famous for their go go bars offering a variety of extra services (but no legal strip-tease). Amsterdam is famous for its live sex shows in De Wallen.
[edit] Performers
Performers are called strippers, exotic dancers or just dancers, or entertainers. House dancers work for a particular club or franchise. Feature dancers tend to have their own celebrity, touring a club circuit making appearances. Porn stars will often become feature dancers to earn extra income and build their fan base.
Dancers collect tips from customers either while on stage or after the dancer has finished a set and is mingling with the audience. A typical tip is 1 or 2 dollars, folded lengthwise and placed in the dancer's g-string or garter. In countries without small paper bills (such as Euro nations, Australia and Canada) customers can throw $1 or $2 coins onto the stage. Often times these coins will be placed in the mouth of a male patron and the dancer will take the coin using her private areas.
Dancers may offer additional services such as lap dances or a trip to the champagne room, for a set fee rather than a tip.
In the U.S., striptease dancers are generally classified as independent contractors. While a few smaller strip clubs may pay a weekly wage, for the most part all of a dancer's income is derived from tips and other fees they collect from customers. In most clubs, dancers have to pay a "stage fee" in order to work a given shift. This fee can range from a few dollars to $100 or more for larger, high-end clubs. In addition, many clubs take a percentage of each sale of private dances. It is customary in the United States for dancers to also pay a "tip out", which is money paid to staff members of clubs like DJs and bouncers, at the end of their shift.
[edit] Legal issues
In several regions of the US, primarily due to the local legal restrictions, strip clubs often fall into one of two categories: topless and all/fully nude. Dancers in topless clubs are allowed to expose their breasts, but they are prohibited from exposing their genitals. Topless dancers typically perform in a G-string and depending on local laws, may be required to wear pasties covering their nipples.
Fully nude clubs may be subject to additional requirements such as restrictions on alcohol sales or no-touch rules between customers and dancers. [2] To get around these rules two "separate" bars -- one topless and one fully nude -- may open adjacent to one another. In a small number of states and jurisdictions, where it is legal for alcohol to be consumed but not for alcohol to be sold, some clubs allow customers to bring their own beverages. These are known as BYOB clubs.
In Barnes v. Glen Theatre, decided in 1991, the US Supreme Court ruled that a state can totally ban topless or nude dancing as Indiana did. A liberal social climate keeps most locales in the USA from doing this though. However, in recent years, many cities, such as New York City, have enacted ordinances prohibiting "adult entertainment" businesses from within a certain distance of houses, schools, and churches. Often, a distance of nearly half-a-mile is stipulated, thus guaranteeing that no new strip clubs can be opened in many major cities. Courts have generally upheld these zoning laws.
Touching of strippers is illegal in most states. However, some dancers and some clubs condone touching of dancers during private dances. This touching often includes the fondling of breasts, buttocks, and in rare cases the vaginal region. In some locales, dancers may give a customer a "friction dance", whereby the dancer grinds against the customer's crotch while he is fully clothed in an attempt to arouse him or bring him to climax.
[edit] See also
Go-Go dancing
Discothèque
House mom
Bar fine
Burlesque
Clip joint
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_club"
CCV and COAST you can bet this will this will be a text book case of fraud. I am sure Brinkman will be pocketing more under the table cash again.
Who and how can Senate Bill 16 possibly be enforced? Who is going to measure whether the dancers are at least 6 feet from patrons? Is this silly or what?
I'm a dancer, I usually work a "normal" job while I dance. I worked at DHL for 5yrs. I am 30yrs old w/no children. I have danced off & on for 12yrs. I have an AA in Business & am currently in school now to become an RN @a school that only accepts 80 student twice a year, you have to have a high SAT or ACT score or a high GPA from another college to be accepted. I graduated w/a 3.2 from Business school. I am an intelligent woman who chooses to dance b/c the money is very good, I like working another job for insurance but like to have extra $ & security(a weekly paycheck). Maybe if "real" jobs paid more we as women wouldn't need to work another job(yes we choose to dance b/c we can make in 1 day what a "real" would pay in a week. Alot of "strippers" have children w/no insurance, no father around & do what they need to do to care for there family, since the government is so messed up & has their priorities ALL mixed up. Strip clubs provide a safe & regulated outlet for adult entertainment. There is a demand for a fantacy & grown men pay a cover charge to enter a "gentlemens" on there own "free will" as americans. If we start regulating perfectly harmless strip clubs, where does it stop...what will the government "regulate" next!! It is our right to do what we want if it does not hurt others. Also, strip clubs DO NOT promote prostitution...if you regulate strip clubs which will lessen custermers that come into these clubs which will inturn close the strip clubs...THAT will promote prostition...for those of you who have children know you would do ANYTHING to care for your children...DON'T under-estimate what you would do for your family. Do not judge what you don't understand. Don't cast the first stone. It is not your place to judge us, we will all be judged in the end. Remember, WHEN WILL IT STOP. Let us have our freedom!!!
This kind of stuff makes me sick. We are such a violent loving culture yet adult nudity in a controlled and usually safe environment is labelled as the downfall of our society. The real downfall is when our personal rights to decide what is best for us are taken away. Controlling people's sexual and personal lives is something the government has no right to do. Every society that has become a dictatorship/fascist society always starts in this direction, by trying to control people's sexual morals.
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