Enferno Gentleman's Club owner arrested after business is searched

10 comments

• Dudester

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  14 years ago

  How do the alternative newspapers in Ohio feel about the anti sex mood in Ohio ?
• samsung1

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  14 years ago

  Fantasyland West in Bucyrus is an Ohio club in the top 100 so I hope LE does not carry over to them.
  
  The strip clubs in Columbus/Dayton run a magazine called Ohio Night Vision. It is filled with strip club ads/promotions (some of which are good for free admission). Also there is a two page article written by the editor. His stance is that strip clubs are adult entertainment and the guys who come in expecting sexual services from the strippers are ruining it for everyone else. Not sure if he is really this gay (he does have a wife) or if he is just giving lip service to LE.
• Dudester

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  14 years ago

  Recently re-watching How the West was Won, I saw religious fundamentalists coming to Ohio. Is that how it is ? A bunch of Zebediah's and Eve's ?
• DoctorDarby

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  14 years ago

  Dudester, you are not far from the truth with that observation. In spite of having urban centers like Cleveland, Ohio is really quite a provincial state filled with "salt of the earth" types out of touch with reality. The zealots in Cincinnati are more akin to Kentucky Bible thumpers than urban sophisticates and they took advantage of Ohio's conservative tendencies to push the gay marriage ban and the idiodic law regulating adult businesses. Ironically, they were out to shut down the superficial parts of strip clubs, not the really naughty bits. To them, the lap dance was scandelous enough to warrent regulation; never mind the extras that most Ohioans don't even know exist. Editors of strip club guides like Night Vision and the Go Go (eastern Ohio and western Pa) promote the image of clubs that the owners give them; it would be silly and counterproductive to go below the surface. What happened in Ohio could happen anywhere (as evidenced by Detroit's crackdown) in spite of the economic benefits that adult businesses can bring to states and localities.
• georgmicrodong

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  14 years ago

  DoctorDarby: There is no economic benefit that is more important than political power. Remember that, and all the regulation on private lives makes sense, in a perverted sort of way.
• samsung1

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  14 years ago

  I just read on SCL that because of this LE, Fantasyland West (one of the few ohio clubs on the top 100) is now a pasties club to comply with state law
• gk

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  14 years ago

  It takes money to enforce tht prud strp club law in Ohio. But Ohio is in a severe budget crisis like most other states. I'm wondering how much priority the Governor and legislature will put on funding this enforcement nonsense when they will have to justify not funding some other priorities? While I don't expect a big public debate about it, we'll have a clue if things ease up a bit.
• Prim0

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  14 years ago

  We just have too many people in Ohio that like to tell everyone else how to live their lives. WIth that, and taxes so high, is it any wonder we had so many people move out of state since the last census?!
• rl27

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  14 years ago

  Fantasyland is pastie at the moment, because the same people who own Enferno, own Fantasyland. As for how much priority the legislature will put in funding this, think about this, Kasich, who used to be a guest commentator on Fox news, is now our governor. He is also a religious nutjob.
• samsung1

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  14 years ago

  Just also found out via eroticmp.com that the two nearby asian massage parlors were closed down in Springfield about 40 minutes away from columbus. Columbus does not have any AMPs as it is.