Where have all the Strip clubs gone?
impala
The People's Republic of Pennsylvania
I am currently working in a midsized city in the north east, one that 25 years ago had scores of strip clubs, topless joints, go go bars, and roadhouses with dancers. Where my hotel is right now use to be the site of two little raunchy go go bars (along with a few regular bars) that I loved going to. Now the closest one (a real dump) is about 20 minutes away, and maybe a half dozen now in the whole area. Now, I know the area has "tried" to clean itself up (crime 10 times worse then back then) which has run a lot of them out, but I miss those days.
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people do not have nearly as much discretionary spending as they did thirty years ago.
Im thinking of a high end all nude club that in 2007 was packed with guys bringing in beer and large coolers of drinks but in 2008 with massive layoffs, it died out. Club was sold, new guys turned it to topless only selling drinks and food. It was too expensive and no nudity. I stopped visiting. It sucked. Good looking dancers left. At the same time businesses were hurting, cities were busy closing down some other clubs that had been around for many years due to new national zoning restrictions. Too close to a church, etc, etc. whoever implemented those new zoning laws shut down scores of strip clubs.
In some locations, city leaders called red light districts as a blight or disgrace to their cities and cleaned the whole area up. That's what they called it. They cleaned it all up by driving everything underground, out of sight, out of mind and harder to access. It's like we are having sex prohibition in the US. Our elected officials and stupid parents are in denial thinking if they shut strip clubs down or restrict them, everything will be fine but it doesn't do a thing to stop stds or sex. It just makes it hard to fine adult entertainment. Meanwhile teenage pregnancy and stds are running at much higher rates in the US than I bet almost every other western country.