I doubt things would get as bad as they are here in Columbus. $35/song dance prices with pasties and no contact. Of course YMMV, but odds are not in your favor when it comes to new dancers. The dancers who have been doing it for years stick to their old sales techniques but the new dancers really think $35/song with pasties and no contact is the norm.
In all seriousness, of all the places within a day's driving distance of home here in the Omaha area, the only place I never enjoyed going to in order to go to the strip clubs was Missouri and that's mostly because I thought the clubs in Kansas City were weak. So now they all suck, but it's not like they didn't all suck before.
I made my way to the Playhouse south of Council Bluffs, Iowa tonight and there were a large number of new dancers, presumably ones who drove up from KC. It was nice, but I don't see most of them still being there by Christmas.
There were a few bright spots in the Missouri club scene, which will likely be extinguished. Unnecessary law.
The passage of this bill was a knee jerk reaction to a very obnoxious group of porno store operators who put up lots of huge lighted billboards on rural stretches of I-70 between Kansas City and Columbia advertising XXX-Adults Only! These adult islands with vast parking lots to accommodate semi's were conveniently located on the interstate between the billboards. Some had dancers, most didn't. The garish billboards quickly caught the eye of the state house about 10 years ago, but freedom of speech issues prevented much action to curtail this obvious embarrassment to lawmakers.
In time, additional strip clubs opened in these remote places since the metropolitan centers had no areas zoned for such disgusting activities. Remember Baddjack's famous discussion of his experience at one of these "truck stop" strip clubs??
The guy who spearheaded this year's legislation for most of his political career(he terms-out this year)came from a socially ultra-conservative, religious orientation. He couldn't have done this all by himself tho; the bill boards got him the support he needed. The brightly lit "Totally Nude" sign emblazoned across the front of Temptations on the edge of the billion dollar renovation of downtown Kansas City didn't help matters either.
This law is partially the result of greed and poor decisions by amateur adult entertainment retailers and club owners.
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The really sad thing is that this law doesn't appear to do anything that will put the sex novelty and videos stores out of business, and thus remove their billboards. All it does for sure is probably cause a lot of strippers to have to get real jobs.
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The ones who are serious enough about stripping will move. And if they live in KC or St. Louis, they'll go either somewhere in Kansas or ESL, respectively.
This is the meat of the two original articles cited above:
"Among other restrictions, the law prohibits full nudity and the serving of alcohol, forces semi-nude dancers to remain on a [an elevated] stage and at least six feet from patrons—rendering lap dances impossible—prohibits closed-door booths for the viewing of movies, requires that patrons remain within the clear view of employees, and mandates that adult businesses close by midnight."
and
"Social conservatives in state legislatures in Kansas, Tennessee, Colorado, Minnesota, Kentucky, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Georgia and Florida have introduced bills that follow the Bergthold [MO's] template. The legislation failed in every state except Ohio, where the bill that finally passed mandated midnight closing times but did not restrict nudity or alcohol sales."
This law seems like is has a good chance of being struck down on either Constitutional grounds or grounds that the MO lawmakers didn't go through the correct procedures to get it passed in the first place. I guess we'll see though...
Here's some more background on the MO situation:
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"Rob Call, who owns Rumors Cabaret in Columbia, told the Associated Press that he may have to close on Saturdays altogether. Considering he used to remain open until 4 am, and features between six and 15 dancers a night, the new regulations make business as usual all but impossible."
This sounds like a bluff. Closing a strip club down on a Saturday night is an insane idea!
When I was in KC a few times over the last 15 years or so, I never made it out to a strip club. The free lingerie shows at some hotels that were nearby the sports complex & the great BBQ were entertaining enough for me.
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