... in the trashcans, outside the "art studio", every night.
Posted on 02/17/2005 6:01:03 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
Strip club artfully slips by anti-nudity law
BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - A strip club in Boise, Idaho has found an artful way to prance past a city law that prohibits full nudity.
On what it calls Art Club Nights, the Erotic City strip club charges customers $15 (8 pounds) for a sketch pad, pencil, and a chance to see completely naked women dancers.
In 2001 the Boise City Council passed an ordinance banning total nudity in public unless it had "serious artistic merit" -- an exemption meant to apply to plays, dance performances and art classes.
"We have a lot of people drawing some very good pictures," said Erotic City owner Chris Teague, who has posted many of the drawings around the club.
Teague said he got the idea when a customer asked if he could get in for free to sketch the dancers. Realizing that "art classes" were exempt from the law, Teague decided to bill Mondays and Tuesdays as art nights, and let the dancers go without their G-strings and pasties.
In the two months since they began, Art Club Nights have drawn full crowds of 60 people but no police citations, he said.
Wanna' come up and see my sketchings?
I've always wondered why prostitutes don't just give away their services for free, with the "understanding" that a gift might be forthcoming afterward.
This strip club owner is taking a big risk. He may find that this will attract a lot of undesirable characters (art students) to his establishment, and they may chase away his paying customers ;^)
"Where the girlies dance in their underpants.......at the Nudie Bar!"
Then he'll probably just turn it into a BYOB establishment, and charge a higher cover and more for "private time" (aka lap dances).
Thats what bouncers, ahem, "Art critics" are for.
Be very careful on this thread. There are many freepers out there who are clenched of sphincter and entirely void of humor.
They won't take kindly to any expression of tongue in cheek humor.
They'll waste no time in telling you what rotten people you are and begging the moderator to take down any obvious tongue-in-cheek comment because it offends their delicate sensibilities because of their utter failure to grasp the concept of humor.
As for me, you people are cracking me up! GO for it!
Probably because very few gifts would be coming afterwards.
I was there - see:
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We have one such here. Fellow was going to open as BYOB to avoid TABC regs. The city passed a "sexually oriented businesses" ordinance, making his location illegal. He promptly moved out of city limits, opened a place that still exists some ten years later, and, as per my prediction, sued the city over the overly broad ordinance. Got $40,000 from the taxpayers and $15 a head for everybody who has walked in since. Aside from the money, city did him a huge favor, moved him from a building he owned in town to one much closer to the airbase and willing customers.
RE: I've always wondered why prostitutes don't just give away their services for free, with the "understanding" that a gift might be forthcoming afterward.
They do.
They're called 'girlfriends'.
Hey, honey. Me and the boys decided to take art classes. Do you mind picking up some pencils while your out ?
... in the trashcans, outside the "art studio", every night.
If the reason for this "art class" springs from the definition of obscenity: some thing totally lacking serious artistic, literary or scientific value . . . appealing only to prurient nature, maybe they could make it a, hmmm, nude book review club.
"So, 'Treasure Chest', what do you think Wolfe was trying to say here?"
{Squealing, then pole dancing)
"My thoughts exactly!"
Or wives, as the case may be.
Why aren't people who marry for money arrested for prostitution?
Is that your pencil or are you glad to see me?
Perhaps in order to punish them?
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