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It appears there's such a thing as being too sinful, even in Sin City. The line was drawn after two Las Vegas strip clubs – Little Darlings and Déjà Vu – began promoting the venues by putting gyrating pole-dancers in the back of a truck with see-through sides and driving it around town. Deja Vu's marketing director, Larry Beard, first told the Las Vegas Sun that he’d fight to keep the trucks rolling – crediting them for a big boost in business. He later decided to suspend the racy campaign on the advice of his lawyer. “My client has authorized...

The stripper-mobile won’t be the talk of the town — or the nation — much longer. Las Vegas attorney Jay Brown, who represents Little Darlings and Déjà Vu strip clubs, said the controversial Strip run of the U-Haul-like truck outfitted with Plexiglas walls to showcase clothed strippers is over. “My client has authorized me to make it clear that due to concerns of County Commissioners Chris Giunchigliani and Steve Sisolak, and because my client wants to be a good citizen, effective immediately that truck is offline,” Brown said Friday afternoon.

<p>"The last time he was here, I remember checking his military ID at the door, and he paid his $15 cover and stayed for six or seven hours," Matthew Jones, general manager of Starz, told the Web site of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. Starz is located just down the road from one of Fort Hood's entrances and does not provide alcohol for its customers, though they are allowed to bring their own beverages.</p>

CRAZY Horse, the upmarket Paris cabaret that insists its strip show is art, is revamping its decades-old revue to include a number that presents clothes removal as a solution to economic crisis. The cabaret off the Champs Elysees, which has seen stars like Madonna, U2 and Gerard Depardieu sip champagne in its red velvet seats as they watch women undress, has hired star choreographer Philippe Decoufle to update its show. Decoufle, who staged the 2007 Rugby World Cup and the Albertville Winter Olympics ceremonies in 1992, will launch the new revue next Monday after months of rehearsals. "We work with...

MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — Call it “Strippergate” with a twist, a scam and a fall. Four Mountlake Terrace men decided to extend a bout of heavy drinking early Saturday by ordering up erotic dancers they found advertised on the Internet, Mountlake Terrace police Sgt. Doug Hansen said. The men, ages 22 to 46, or “old enough to know better,” as Hansen said, found an advertisement on Craigslist for strippers. They pooled their cash — $440 — and found some women who looked appealing to them, Hansen said. Around 5:45 a.m., three dancers arrived at the home of one of the men...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - An adult entertainment club will soon open their doors in Nashville. City leaders seem to be giving it a thumbs up, but the nature of what happens inside the club will be a shock to many. Gentlemens' clubs with female exotic dancers are common to Nashville. "This is going to be the first male strip club in Tennessee," said club co-owner Cole Wakefield. "We cater to anybody who wants to come see men dance naked." Wakefield said this was not burlesque or Chippendales. He bought the old Ken's Gold Club on 5th Avenue. Later this month Wakefield...

Bill O'Reilly discusses with Lis Wiehl and Megyn Kelly.

Sweden's tax authorities are seeking the bare facts about webcam strippers' income, estimating that hundreds of Swedish women are dodging the law. The search involves tax officials examining websites that feature Swedish strippers, in an effort to identify them and chase them for tax returns. The tax loss is estimated at about 40m Swedish kronor (£3.3m) annually. Project leader Dag Hardyson said 200 Swedish strippers had been investigated so far. He said the total could be 500. "They are young girls, we can see from the photos. We think that perhaps they are not well informed about the rules," said...

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As a bartender and trainer at a national restaurant chain, Rebecca Brown earned a couple thousand dollars in a really good week. Now, as a dancer at Chicago's Pink Monkey gentleman's club, she makes almost that much in one good night. The tough job market is prompting a growing number of women across the country to dance in strip clubs, appear in adult movies or pose for magazines like Hustler. Employers across the adult entertainment industry say they're seeing an influx of applications from women who, like Brown, are attracted by the promise of flexible schedules and fast cash. Many...

Old Glory Radio Morning Report Mar 13th 2009. We here at Old Glory are 100% behind the proposed stripper tax proposed by New York Assemblyman Felix Ortiz.

ALBANY - Call it an un-cover charge. A Brooklyn assemblyman introduced a bill yesterday that would require patrons to pay the state $10 every time they visit a strip club or topless joint. Felix Ortiz, a Democrat, said the flesh fee could raise as much as $500 million for victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, sexual abuse and child prostitution.

After two fatal tower crane accidents last year, New York City instituted a series of reforms to increase safety and oversight in the construction industry, including requiring a 30-hour class for crane operators and other workers on the safest way to raise and lower a tower crane. But some sessions of the city-mandated class are being taught by a union official who has admitted that he helped unqualified people, including organized crime figures, get into his union, according to sworn testimony and investigative reports. He and other union officials helped some of those men secure licenses to operate smaller cranes...

<p>The "polemania" that overtook Hollywood, Australia and Japan a decade ago has grabbed France, where pole-dancing schools say they turn away clients eager to learn routines once the preserve of strip clubs and girlie bars.</p> <p>"It's sensual, not sexy, we leave eroticism in the changing room", said Violetta Carpentier, 31.</p>

The students selling their brains and bodies for cash Officially, Cambridge students do not work during termtime. A few hours a week at the college bar is all that is allowed. It’s an open secret that many of us fit evening and weekend jobs around our studies. Undergraduate life is expensive these days, especially for those who enjoy the odd luxury. But why are 350 Cantabridgians working as escorts? Why are 500 – nearly one in twenty – writing bespoke essays for anonymous clients? The Call Girl I slept with clients on 40-50 occasions over a period of two months....

A new study from the University of New Mexico found that, on average, strippers make the most money in tips during the most “fertile” days of their monthly cycles, Psychology Today reports. -snip- For their research, psychologist Geoffrey Miller and colleagues visited local gentlemen's clubs and counted tips made on lap dances. Dancers made about $70 an hour during their peak period of fertility, versus about $35 while menstruating and $50 in between. Researchers attributed the fluctuation in tips to the changes in body odor, waist-to-hip ratio, and facial features that occur throughout a woman's cycle.

Bachelor Party Checklist: Timing - Try not to have the party on the eve of the wedding. This is very bad for everyone involved including your friend. It is highly likely that he (or she) will be spending a good part of their life savings the following day, they will want to be sober for it. A week in advance is a good idea. Even a month in advance is acceptable. Friday and Saturday nights are best. Food - You probably won't be expected to truly feed everyone, however you should provide something to eat. It could be pot luck...

Sylvia Calkovska would love to go back to her native Czech Republic for her brother's wedding in the fall. But the 30-year-old exotic dancer at Club Pro in Concord has been in Canada on a work permit for the past four years and she's afraid if she leaves, she won't get back in. She was among about 100 dancers and adult entertainment industry owners and managers who met at Toronto City Hall last night to lobby against Ottawa's proposed immigration law amendments. They say the new policy would ban foreign strippers from coming to Canada and penalize those already here...

The Ohio Democratic Party moved last week to quell a local controversy that had made international headlines. After meeting with Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern and other party leaders, the top two officials of the Lucas County Democratic Party agreed to resign. Lucas County Democratic Party Chairman John Irish and Executive Director Domenic Montalto were in hot water for hiring employees of a local strip club to work a June 29 party fundraiser. Lucas County Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz told the Toledo Blade that a woman exposed herself in front of some 20 people on the golf course. He also...

PORT CLINTON — John Irish, chairman of the Lucas County Democratic Party, resigned his post yesterday after being caught up in a scandal involving strippers at a recent golf fund-raiser. The incident cast light on divisions in the party and raised concerns and accusations about its purported long-standing culture of sexism. Mr. Irish’s resignation is effective Monday, other party leaders said. The resignation occurred a day after Mr. Irish dismissed calls from some fellow county Democrats for him to step down. Chris Redfern, a state representative from Catawba Island who is chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, announced at a...

OTTAWA, Canada, May 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Immigration Minister Diane Finley introduced a bill Wednesday that would prevent sex trade workers from entering the country on a stripper’s visa. Bill C-57 is intended to prevent sexual exploitation and trafficking of foreign workers under the guise of exotic dancer visas. “What we’re trying to do here is protect vulnerable foreign workers, ones that could easily be exposed to sexual exploitation, harassment and abuse,” Finley told the House of Commons Wednesday. “The previous Liberal government gave blanket exemptions to foreign strippers to work in Canada. (This was) despite warnings that they were...

DON'T FEEL TOO SORRY FOR THE DUKIES Mike Nifong, the North Carolina prosecutor who pursued a case of rape and kidnapping against three Duke University lacrosse players, has been found to have been reckless and deceitful in the discharge of his duties according to the state's attorney general. He abused the power the people of Durham granted him. Based on the public record of what he did in this case, he may well be properly disbarred. The accuser in this case has been shown to be either a vicious liar or a troubled fantasist. The three young men who she...

[This Just In: Police allege molestation claim faked. Woman, teen daughter charged after accusing stepfather using diary Special to the Beacon Journal. Dateline Akron. When a Medina woman spoke to a detective in late February, it appeared she was living a parent's worst fear. Cathleen M. Carpenter told Medina police Detective Mark Kollar that as she went through her 16-year-old daughter's room, she came across a diary page that described how the teen's stepfather had sexually molested her. But Kollar said what he found in his investigation was not a molester, but a woman out for revenge. Kollar said Carpenter,...

Enter the Shooter Alley strip club in Doraville, Ga., and you'll find plenty of naked young women entertaining their male clients, writhing and shaking only inches away from their faces. It was there that two dancers, Ashley Miller (known as "Adrienne") and Heather Johnston (who went by "Charlie"), met recently and became fast friends. The pairing proved ill-fated. Both were reportedly on a destructive tear. Johnston, 19, was heavily using drugs, according to a fellow stripper at the club. And Miller, 18, had struck up with a reputed drug dealer. The two reached a nadir last week when they robbed...

Out with the cross, in with the strippers. The formerly Christian college that sparked a national furor by removing a cross from its chapel in the interest of diversity this week packed out its auditorium with an explicit porn show.

Nude dancers will not be coming back to Pine Bluff, WI. Efforts by the owners of the defunct Hot Rod's strip club to regain their liquor and adult entertainment licenses have failed, with Dane County Circuit Judge Angela Bartell ruling against the owners and in favor of the town. "This is a major victory for Pine Bluff, which fought an uninvited strip club from the very beginning," said attorney Mark Hazelbaker, one of several attorneys working on the town's behalf in the case.The owners had sued the town in June 2005, after the town revoked the liquor license for Hot...

BURLESQUE entertainment at a climate forum in Canberra was "probably not appropriate" but people shouldn't overreact, Prime Minister John Howard has said. The government last night withdrew funding for the 17th Australia New Zealand Climate Forum after a number of top scientists, many of them women, stormed out of the forum dinner at Old Parliament House on Wednesday night, offended by the organising committee's choice of burlesque entertainment. Today Mr Howard said he understood the performance may have upset some women but "we don't want to overdramatise our reaction". "I'm sensitive to the view of many women in relation to...

See for example this thread first. The Chinese say they will arrest any strippers while you're laid to rest The question is if the dead man's a "stiff"? ..and just who had invited the guest?

There were picket signs, picket lines and protesters imploring motorists to honk for their cause. But all similarities between Friday afternoon's rally in front of City Hall and other political gatherings in San Francisco ended there. About 50 exotic dancers and other adult club employees gathered to protest outside as the Entertainment Commission heard public testimony on a proposed ban on private rooms and booths at the clubs. The Commission on the Status of Women proposed the legislation on the ban based on interviews with dancers who said sexual assaults have occurred inside the private rooms. The rally more closely...

NEW BRAUNFELS — In the midst of attempts to crack down on raunchy and rowdy behavior during traditional summertime tubing river trips through this city, a San Antonio topless club is planning a tubing excursion featuring strippers. Trey Maddox, a manager at Palace Men's Club, said Sunday's excursion on the Comal River — during which men can pay $25 to join the strippers — isn't meant to fly in the face of the city's new rules. "We're not hookers, dope dealers or Mafia thugs," he said, noting that the strippers will be appropriately dressed. "We're just coming to have a...

SOUTH PLAINFIELD — At first, Andrea Leipow thought the severed human hand nicknamed Freddy, found in a mason jar of formaldehyde on a basement table, was just a bizarre joke. But when a resident at the home on the quiet suburban street read a satanic text in the language Enochian, the 25-year-old Leipow, who moved into the home in February, started to get "creeped out," she said. Things grew much darker at the house, which was shared by a group of people in their 20s, Leipow told the Home News Tribune yesterday. The two exotic dancers living there, Linda E....

Author’s note: Pseudonyms are used in today’s column. Other minor facts are altered to protect the identity of former students. Last night I had a dream that I was sitting in a diner not far from the beach. A girl with a suntan walked into the diner and sat down next to me. She had beautiful green eyes, sun-bleached hair and the face of a cover girl. We knew each other through a mutual friend who teaches in the public schools. When I asked her how she was she said that she was having trouble finding her place in the...

A Duke University lacrosse player has been reinstated to the team following his suspension for sending a vulgar e-mail about killing strippers, according to a letter obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The e-mail was sent by sophomore Ryan McFadyen in March, hours after a party where a dancer claimed she was raped by three players. The school had suspended McFadyen, 20, of Mendham, N.J., after authorities investigating the rape allegations released a search warrant for his dorm room that included the graphic e-mail sent from his Duke account. .....snip...... The student's e-mail, which Moneta said was sent "in jest,"...

Russian communists reacted with dismay yesterday after they discovered that strippers and drunken businessmen had turned the birthplace of Lenin, once one of the most hallowed museums in the land, into a wild party zone.The Lenin Memorial Museum, a complex of buildings with Lenin's home at its heart in the central Russian town of Ulyanovsk, admitted throwing open its doors to corporate parties in an attempt to raise revenues.Museum staff acted as waiters at vodka-tasting parties and other events hosted by local banks and factories that often degenerated into binges with strippers, local newspapers reported.It is all a far cry...

EAST HARTFORD -- A Manchester Board of Education member is facing criminal charges, including driving under the influence and resisting officers, after his arrest outside the Venus Lounge, an East Hartford strip bar known for prostitution and drug activity, police said. John M. Rowe, a Democrat elected in November to a three-year term, refused to submit to sobriety tests and threatened recrimination to the officers during his June 2 arrest, police said. Rowe, 41, of 31 Gerard St., Manchester, was so inebriated that an officer had to hold him up to keep him from falling over during his arrest and...

April 24, 2006 — A Duke University student and lacrosse team captain calls Allure Escort Service to order two strippers. He says it's for a bachelor party, but the dancers arrive to a gathering of college boys, many drinking and some underage. Is this just your average Monday night at college? ABC News spoke with students and recent college graduates from around the country. All of them wanted to speak anonymously given the delicate nature of the topic, and all said the same thing: They had seen strippers at parties on or near campus, often at fraternity and athletic team...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Time-stamped photographs will show an exotic dancer was already injured and "very impaired" when she arrived at a party where she claims she was raped by members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team, an attorney for one of the players said Sunday. Durham attorney Bill Thomas said some of the photographs, taken when she arrived at the house, indicate the woman was injured before getting to the party March 13. They show extensive bruises and scrapes on her legs, especially around the knees, he said. "This young lady was substantially impaired. She had fallen several times...

BRITAIN'S Prince Harry visited a strip club with some friends to celebrate the end of his army officer training course, British tabloids have reported. The third in line to the throne turned down a lap dance with one of the scantily clad girls at the Spearmint Rhino Club, west of London, saying "No thanks, I've got a girlfriend," the Daily Mirror said. But the dancer, named in the newspaper as Mariella Butkute from Lithuania, said Harry, 21, did let her sit on his lap for a 10-minute chat. The prince and his friends went to the club in Colnbrook in...

SYDNEY, Australia -- Some Australian strippers are now wearing the union label. The country's Industrial Relations Commission has given the strippers' union new rights. Striptease Artists Australia has won overtime pay, meal breaks and maternity leave for its members.

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Australian strippers have won the right to take time off after taking their clothes off. The country's Industrial Relations Commission on Friday approved new workplace rules for members of the strippers union, the Striptease Artists Australia. "We've got rights to have public holiday pay now, which we've never had in our career before," said a union spokeswoman called Mystical Melody. "We've got rosters and set hours. We can't work more than 10 hours a shift."

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CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Some Vegas strippers are going to court to keep the sin in Sin City. The Nevada Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to a city ordinance that bans certain types of touching by exotic dancers. The law makes it a misdemeanor for a stripper to fondle or caress a patron or for the patron to do the same to the dancer. More than a dozen strippers are challenging the Las Vegas ordinance. Their lawyer contends a stripper could be arrested for merely shaking a customer's hand. But a lawyer for the city tells the state high...

FEBRUARY 3--Florida investigators yesterday returned to the scene of the grind, arresting more than two dozen strippers in an undercover investigation. According to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, the dancers were allegedly involved in a variety of criminal activities, including cocaine peddling, prostitution, lewdness, exposure of sexual organs, and the improper solicitation of alcohol sales. The strippers, who were nabbed late last night and early this morning, worked at six Tampa-area clubs: Lollipops; Calendar Girls; Vegas Showgirls; Brass Flamingo; Bare Assets; Foxy Lady; and Club Extasy. Last July, dancers at five of those clubs were arrested as part of a...

Two guys from Minneapolis embark on a four-state tour of topless clubs, shelling out for champagne, lap dances and various favors from VIP-room strippers. The men are Minneapolis police officers. They are on duty. And their commanders know exactly what the officers are doing, handing them cash advances for their cross-country foray. Minneapolis police sent two officers on the road in 2004 to evaluate whether the city should grant a liquor license to a Denver businessman who owns a chain of strip clubs. The license would have given the businessman, Troy Lowrie, control of a well-known downtown Minneapolis club.

Lap Dances,Drugs and alcohol LAKEWOOD, Colo. (News 4) News 4 has learned of disciplinary action against baseball players and coaches at Bear Creek High School. The action came after players went to a strip club during a spring break trip. While in Arizona for a baseball tournament, some players and coaches drove south to Mexico. That side trip, and the activities in Mexico, led to a number of Jefferson County School District violations. The school District is now sharing all the details. They include talk of strippers, lap dances and drugs and alcohol. And in the end, no one is...

STRIPTEASE artists have had an early win in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission in their fight for an award to establish basic wages and workplace conditions. Canberra-based union Striptease Artists of Australia (SAA) presented its 47-page log of claims listing more than 300 businesses as respondents at a two-day hearing of the AIRC in Melbourne, beginning yesterday. The union has sought pay rates of up to $310 for three minutes of lap-dancing in skimpy clothing, $360 for a topless dance and $510 for a three-minute nude performance, $1960 for a 15-minute explicit table-top dance and $1100 an hour for a...

LITTLE ROCK -- The case of the spanking strippers has been settled with a plea deal. A patron of the Sensations Night Club Three in Jacksonville, Ark., complained he was spanked with a big wooden paddle on his birthday. And it hurt. Three dancers and two other employees of the club have pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Second-degree battery charges against the dancers were dismissed. The patron, a truck driver, said the paddling left his backside bruised. The judge in the case has now ordered the paddle destroyed, so it can't be sold for a profit. The prosecutor suggested the...

As we here in the United States debate the merits of a guest worker program, our northern neighbors are debating the value of their own policies; in particular their “blanket approval” policy for visas to foreign strippers. Read More... Craig DeLuz Visit The Home of Uncommon Sense... www.craigdeluz.com

IT'S happened again. Another innocent man who just wanted a few lap dances claims to have been victimized by an exclusive New York strip club, Scores. This time it's an executive from Missouri named Robert McCormick, who, treating himself and friends, ran up a $241,000 bill at Scores on his corporate American Express card two years ago. American Express is now suing him for refusing to pay up. Several other unhappy customers have also sued Scores over large bills.

IT SHOULD come as no surprise that some Hurricane Katrina evacuees were found to be blowing their federal cash handouts on booze and strippers, as the Boston Herald reported on Tuesday. Behaviors that beget poverty are not instantly overcome with the receipt of taxpayer money. First, people were shocked to discover that huge sections of New Orleans were deeply poor. Now people are shocked to find that some of those same poor people are wasting their government aid. How do they think these people became poor in the first place? If there is a cycle of poverty in America, it...