We have had many discussions about this that have gotten heated. One even resulted in my having to look up Iowa Criminal Defense Attorneys and Iowa State Laws to show someone how wrong he was, and he still didn't get it.
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Bars generally make money. so a club will only for go that if there is a reason.
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One reason is that in some states you can't have alcohol and nudity together.
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But you cannot serve or allow alcohol in retail businesses which are not licensed to serve alcohol. ( exception New Orleans and a few other minor exceptions )
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So for it to lawfully be a BYOB place, then it has to be a membership club.
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But, this does not mean that they tell you that it is a membership club, or that the staff even knows it is a membership club. It simply means that when they deal with the authorities they are going to claim that it is a membership club. And they might not get away with this. And the people who work in strip clubs usually know very little about the legal parameters.
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The main reason for going to membership club and Byob, is to get around public lewdness and public sex act laws. And then also because it is harder for LE to justify the efforts involved in getting in there and busting anyone. It does not get them around the state prostitution law, but it in practice makes it impractical to enforce.
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So some people like BYOB because drinking is cheaper and because they can get friendly with girls by getting them drunk. But the BYOB option is just being offered as a courtesy, instead of saying no booze. In the vast majority of cases BYOB means that it is claiming itself as a membership club, and this is to get around public lewdness and sex act laws, and to make enforcing the state penal code against prostitution impractical.
So they are adopting the legal model pioneered by Swinger's Clubs, where they want to encourage sex in front of other people, because people like this and it gets people loosened up.
But real Swingers Clubs have no P4P dimension. These strip clubs are mixing the two together.
I am not aware of any BYOB / Membership Strip Clubs around me. But there was a Swinger's Club, Edgewater West in Oakland, which I suspected was actually going P4P. It is gone now.
Of the idea, I like the idea. Place in Newark NJ, Sights, that I hope to be able to go to. Black, after hours club.
What I would expect is that anything goes, front room or back room and that girls just climb onto a guy and try to make it happen.
And then since it is after hours, probably many of them will be happy to walk right out the front door with a guy.
SJG