Iceland outlaws striptease

Who the fuck wants to go there anyhow? I once did an emergency landing there at the capital (Reg something or other. I cannot even spell it).

I checked here on tuscl, Iceland has 7 clubs. 4 of them in Reykjavik. I had to copy and paste "Reykjavik" because the spelling is so fucked up.

But what about the strippers?

Progressives and Greens? And strippers thought the conservatives were to be worried about.

Iceland pretty low on cash. How will their women make money?

"Reg something or other. I cannot even spell it"

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...

I was in Reykjavik in 2004. The strip clubs were full of eastern Europeans. Hot, but very expensive (of course, everything in Iceland was expensive when I was there). I couldn't get anything out of the girl I did a private dance with despite spending a fortune. I was a bad idea to get drunk enough to get confused about the exchange rate and then get a hot polish chick who I thought I could talk into giving me *ahem* something involving her mouth.

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.

Has Bjork been stripping? Lost track of her after her music career fizzled.

It looks like the three people who were the main sponsors were women, as their last names all end in 'dottir'. One of the more useless facts I know is that in Iceland, you never have the same last name as your parents and that you are the either the ''sson'' or ''dottir'' of your father, and all of the people mentioned in the article are ''dottir''s. Anyway, my point is I'm not surprised given that info.

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.

1) Iceland is broke, owes money out the wazoo to two euro countries.

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.

"Progressives and Greens? And strippers thought the conservatives were to be worried about."

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.

Thanks, Dan.

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.

They're having a big volcanic eruption right now. I guess God likes lapdances.

No wonder the country is bankrupt.

Whoa, whoa, whoa here...I think it might be time for a short lesson in Icelandic politics. :) Since our political system in the USA is rather narrow when compared to the rest of the world, thumbnail sketches of how things work here in the USA often don't translate overseas.

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.

Mr. G.: Could it be there's no upside to nudity there since they have the smallest gene pool in the world?

you get all types hating strip clubs. over in Iceland, it's the left-of-center types. here, it's the Bible-thumping-Moral-Majority idiots. one side wants to save the dancers, the other one thinks all of us need them to 'save our souls'. which one is worse? simple: BOTH!!!