When did LD's start?
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Has it always been the case that you could get LD's in strip clubs? I mean, was there a time when you had to settle for watching the girls strip on stage and no more? If so, what prompted the girls to start joining the customers (other than money)and when? No doubt the religous sector were outraged? What area/city/state led the way?
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Back then (early 80's) clubs paid girls to dance, but in the late 1980's/early 90's, girls became private contractors and started making their money from contact with the customers.
No doubt the religous sector were outraged?
Atually, in the 1980's, when all of this started, the religious right was a big part of Reagan's administration. The religious right was committed to wiping out the pornography industry and clubs were, for the most part, ignored by Police. In the 1990's, the religious right allied with certain cities. For instance, a coalition of church leaders in Houston saw to it that a liberal democrat asian woman got elected to Houston City Council. She went after strip clubs and passed a draconian anti strip clubs law. After a dozen years, most parts of the law held up under appeal. By then, the city's convention business was on life support. The cops backed off of the clubs and convention business is booming.
Unfortunately, the Memphis PD interrupted the progression at that point by raiding those clubs. I think they all were closed down. "New" clubs did open up around there and I heard the new clubs also (eventually) began the same dance styles. I didn't make any more trips to Memphis for years so I don't know the rest of the story (maybe Shadowcat can tell that part).
At the same time - elsewhere in the country - other SCs were beginning to allow customers to approach the stage and tip the dancers. Clubs varied widely in the amount of stageside contact was allowed when tipping. And clubs I visited all around the country were encouraging/allowing the dancers to mingle with the customers by 1890. I think Dudester may have his dates wrong (I saw the changes in the '70s, not '80s).
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