Iceland outlaws striptease
samsung1
Ohio
Strip shows have been banned in Iceland following a vote in the Althingi parliament yesterday.
A total of 31 of Althingi's 63 MPs from across the political spectrum supported the bill. It was enthusiastically supported by all parties except The Movement and two of the Independence Party MPs abstained. No votes at all were cast against the bill, mbl.is reports. Some MPs chose not to be present to vote.
According to the new law, it is forbidden to offer strip shows or to offer the nudity of staff or others on-premises by any other means.
It was former Left Green MP and minister Kolbrun Halldorsdottir who first put the proposal forward. But the bill's key backer now is Siv Friedleifsdottir, a Progressive Party MP. Steinunn Valdis Oskarsdottir of the Social Democrats described the parliamentary decision as historic.
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/03/…
24 March 2010
A total of 31 of Althingi's 63 MPs from across the political spectrum supported the bill. It was enthusiastically supported by all parties except The Movement and two of the Independence Party MPs abstained. No votes at all were cast against the bill, mbl.is reports. Some MPs chose not to be present to vote.
According to the new law, it is forbidden to offer strip shows or to offer the nudity of staff or others on-premises by any other means.
It was former Left Green MP and minister Kolbrun Halldorsdottir who first put the proposal forward. But the bill's key backer now is Siv Friedleifsdottir, a Progressive Party MP. Steinunn Valdis Oskarsdottir of the Social Democrats described the parliamentary decision as historic.
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/03/…
24 March 2010
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What else is new old man. News flash: You can't seem to be able to spell much of anything. At least this topic has *something* to do with strip clubs, moron.
Seven strip clubs in Iceland, but only one old review & none of the club's websites seem to work...ugh...
Regardless, it sucks that anybody would want to stop hot girls from taking their cloths off. Who the fuck votes for moron that don't dig naked women. Sad -- Iceland is a beautiful country. I guess we shouldn't expect both geysers and hot naked chicks -- just geysers.
As for CTQ, Bjork is still around, but everyone else has moved on. I once got a lapdance from a dancer to "Army of Me". Not sure what to make of that.
2) Iceland could use any income it could find.
3) even in poor countries, the sex industry does well.
4) Iceland is shooting themself in the foot-the fools. They should just legalize prostitution, regulate, and tax it. Soon, their coffers would be running over.
But nooooo, they're way too moral for that.
The progressives and Greens are all feminazi cunts who have more upper lip hair than any of us do when we don't shave for a month, and their pussy whipped, limp wristed men.
Just as those people resent the rich for being wealthier than they are and develop idiotic Marxist and Marcusian philosophies to justify robbing them in the guise of socialism, they also resent pretty girls who are attractive and well groomed enough for men to want to pay them to see their bodies. So they developed second wave feminism to moralize being lonely, embittered spinsters. They called bikinis oppressive because they look like shit in them, and called cosmetics sexist because it wouldn't do them any good anyway.
Like most leftists, it all basically boils down to resentment, in this case the fact that some pretty girl got asked out and they didn't.
Dude, I punched up a trip on Expedia.com to Reykjavik last year after their economy imploded and everyone ran to the stores to buy whatever they could. The shocker? It was more expensive then about 2/3rds of the (major) European cities I checked.
The "Icelandic Movement" was a Green political party (which, in this specific case, is a feminist Party) in Iceland that ended up joining the Social Democratic Alliance. The Social Democratic Party was basically founded as a trade union Party, and it's now a a centre-left Party. The Independence Party is a Right-wing political Party (which, in this specific case, is a "traditional values" Party) in Iceland formed through the long ago merger of the Conservative Party & the Liberal Party. These Parties in Iceland, in part, didn't support this bill recently.
The Progressive Party in Iceland is a Nordic agrarian (getting most of its support from farmers & fishermen), centrist Party. It's a non-socialist Party with a commitment to small businesses, decentralization of political power, and skepticism towards the European Union. The (Nordic) Left-Green Movement is a left-wing Party (which, in this specific case, is a feminist Party) in Iceland, which is opposed to the Social Democratic Alliance, Iceland's involvement in NATO, and membership in the European Union. These Parties in Iceland basically supported this recent bill.
So, what you've apparently got here is a group center-Left, feminist, trade union, and Right-wing people that were opposed to outlawing stripping in Iceland, while some other agrarian, centrist, non-socialist, Left-wing, feminist people were for outlawing stripping in Iceland.
IMHO, I don't think that this vote was all about feminism at all. Heck, there may have even been some inside Icelandic politics involved in the vote that none of us are familiar with. For instance, it's not surprising that the Left-Green Movement would vote against what the Social Democratic Alliance wanted to do, since those two groups are opposed to one another.
As I've said before, both the extremes of the far Right-wing & far Left-wing in the USA have their general opposition to stripping all wrong IMO.