Posted on 03/30/2010 6:46:30 AM PDT by Cronos
A legislation banning striptease in Iceland and barring clubs from making profit from the nudity of employees of will take effect on July 1, 2010. The legislation was passed with 31 votes. Two MPs of the Independence Party abstained but no one voted against it.
From Goldfinger. Photo by Páll Stefánsson.
“It is pleasing how fresh the breeze of equality is at Althingi [the Icelandic parliament] these days,” said Siv Fridleifsdótttir of the Progressive Party, the bill’s first presenter, Fréttabladid reports.
She also said a step had been taken towards increased democracy, considering a legislation which was presented by a member of the opposition was passed.
Stripping had generally been banned in Iceland before yesterday’s legislation was passed, but a few clubs were operating on a legal exemption. Now they will no longer be able to do so.
Ásgeir Davídsson who runs the strip club Goldfinger in Kópavogur is looking into whether he can sue the Icelandic state for compensation.
“I have reached the age where I’m not sure whether I want to bother with this hassle anymore,” he said. “I would be relieved if they just paid me compensation and I would quit.”
Davídsson said yesterday’s legislation reminds him of regulations in countries where hardly any part of a woman’s body can be seen in public. He claimed Iceland is the first European country to ban stripping.
Fridleifsdóttir said she doesn’t know whether it is true that Iceland is the first country in Europe to pass such a legislation.
“But we showed consideration while passing the legislation by allowing the clubs a long time to adjust,” she said, adding that the parliament’s General Committee does not believe strip clubs are entitled to compensation.
I would think it is too cold there to strip.
Their economy must be doing fine that they can worry about such things.
Althingi?
So Iceland is out for the RNC Convention?
Good for Iceland.
And they have some of the prettiest women in the world.
I wanted to become a fan dancer but I kept tripping over the extension cord.
Typical nannystate crap, IMHO. Who the heck really cares as long as it’s kept to adults?
This type of thing should be local government regulated, not nationwide, even in Iceland.
In Iceland, the national govt is the local govt.
BTW, who cares?
I wanted to become a fan dancer but I kept tripping over the extension cord.
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I do the box step but my wife doesn’t like to box.
Gotta love the faux conservatives.
Yah, prostitution is a victimless crime. Just ask the prostitutes, their pimps, the wives of the johns, the diseased johns, and the children of all of them.
“Good for Iceland.”
Sure you’re on the right site?
The “there oughta be a law” one is called DU
I’m positive I’m on the right side. Localities here, up to the state level should do the same.
Stripping is NOT prostitution. While I do not, and never have, frequented or even attended such places, in the whole scheme of things, is this really where we should focus? We have socialism and government control invading every aspect of our lives, and you’re afraid of a couple boobs?
Yes, I realize this is in Iceland, but your cheerleading of such things is evident of the problem in the conservative movement today.
with bjork who knows
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