FONDL, since we've managed to kill this thread too, I'll just finish up with one last post. I think we are probably close, but I'm probably a bit more conservative. I'd have no objection to zoning laws being used to prevent adult buisnesses from opening up in some areas. I think that is a fairly reasonable thing, so long as it is done by elected officials who are accountable. I would draw the line at changing the laws to close a club down.
In a larger more philosophical sense I have always believed that while some things should be tolerated at some level, they should be discouraged at another. This has been the case throughout history. To bring in another thread, hypocracy is the tax that vice pays to virtue. I think many things, prostitution, pornography, alcohol, and stripclubs among them, have a social function that is useful, provided that the extent is controlled somehow. When we weaken those prohibitions by demanding more "openness" about sexuality or more understanding about addiction, thus lessening the social stigmas, we may suffer from some very unexpected consequences. I'm a big fan of the sexual revolution, but you can't deny it pretty much gave us AIDS. We too often look at past generations thinking we know better in these more enlightened times, when what we see as stodgy old traditions are really the collected wisdom of thousands of generations. If you believe in evolution we are a cooperative and social species and the evolution of a working society is no different than the evolution of a living organism. One bad change can cause a lot of problems we can never predict, or leave us unable to respond to some change or pressure in the future. Given that we have to show some humility when tinkering with taboos or social stigma, and if we see things going south we might want to admit that maybe our parents and grandparents had a few more things right than we thought.