[bvw]

The atmosphere in and around strip club does breed crime. More indirectly, by lowering the bar of expectations, and diluting, removing, even mocking the sense of shame that should accompany working in or attending such a place.

There is also direct crime -- prostituion, pimping, drug-selling, slavery, extortion, bribery, robbery, common in these places. In nearly every case they degrade the spirit.

I'm not a absolutist -- in a uncommon times and places some small number of these places may be a help. I'd rather not go into why, and wherefore, because people are prideful.

[MrLeRoy]

The atmosphere in and around strip club does breed crime. More indirectly, by lowering the bar of expectations, and diluting, removing, even mocking the sense of shame that should accompany working in or attending such a place.

How does a lowered sense of shame about working in or attending such a place lead to crime?

There is also direct crime -- prostituion, pimping, drug-selling, slavery, extortion, bribery, robbery, common in these places.

You didn't address my suggestion that these crimes might be merely relocated rather than bred by the strip club.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

even mocking the sense of shame that should accompany working in or attending such a place.

Isn't up to the individual to decide for himself what is and what isn't shameful? You sound like a tongue-clucker.