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HAMBURG, Iowa, August 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Nude dancing in strip clubs is "artistic" even when performed by an under age girl, according to an Iowa judge in a ruling issued late last month. Fremont County Judge Timothy O'Grady called the strip club a "theatre" and agreed with the club owner who argued that the state's indecency law does not apply to "theater, concert hall, art center, museum, or similar establishments." Hamburg, Iowa, a town of 1,200 just across the Missouri River from Nebraska, has one strip club. After the 17-year-old niece of the local Sherriff, Steven MacDonald, did a...

FOUR women in conservative mainly-Muslim Malaysia have been charged with performing a striptease show, local media reported today. The four women, who were waitresses at a nightclub in a Kuala Lumpur suburb, were charged with behaving in an obscene manner while dancing in the nude on December 16, said the New Straits Times. Zainah Abdul Rahman, 23, Nor'ain Mamis, 20, Zaleha Abdul Rahim, 30 and Rena Miasin, 25, who were alleged to have been performing for a group of businessmen from Singapore, face up to three months in jail or a fine or both if convicted, said the Malay Mail....