Dress codes
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
I have heard of similar dress codes....no sweat pants or basket ball shorts. I myself was once denied entrance for wearing sweat pants in the dead of winter. That club is now out of business.
I understand the clubs reasoning. It is a deterrent to sexual activities but sexual activities are already illegal.
There are also dress codes that have nothing to do with sexual activities but are intended to keep out the thug element. Even Follies has one of these and I'm OK with that but is it legal?
I doubt that this will ever get challenged in the courts because most strip club customers try to keep this part of their lives on the down low.
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And that's how they get away with it, legal or not. Pretty sure they're counting on no one challenging them. Also, I'm pretty sure I never want to be the guy at the door doing an underwear check.
Very nice restaurants can have a jacket & tie requirement. Lots of private businesses have attire, footwear, etc., requirements for reasons ranging from safety to "ambiance". When you step into a private business, there are many legal restrictions on your freedoms that don't exist on public property or in your own home.
Let me ask the question from another angle... why would it be illegal?
At a different club I asked about the rationale for the posted dress code (no sweat pants, no athletic shorts) and the female attendant said, "because men get erections and the dancers don't want to deal with that." Does this logic mean that dress pants and underwear prevent erections??
Dr. Evil is correct. A business can legally impose almost any rule it wants on its patrons. It may be an unsound business practice but as long as it doesn’t violate the requirements or prohibitions of any existing statute, there is no illegality.
In our system of law, anything that is not forbidden is allowed. Even though we like to complain that there are too many overreaching or intrusive laws, the reality is that laws govern only a small subset of the range our daily activities or potential activities.
As long as jizz isn’t getting spilled places that doesn’t need to be there, or customers aren’t flashing anything out in the open, or the customer is dressed in a way that the lack of underwear is blatantly obvious, I doubt they will do much to enforce the sign.
Dress codes are legal but the problem I see here is enforcement. In order to enforce this, they have to look down customers’ pants. And in order not to discriminate they have to do that with every customer, male and female, black and white. We all know this doesn’t happen. Instead, they only check the creepy looking losers who look like they are there to shop for $10 blow jobs.
For me personally, if a bouncer wants to look down my pants I would tell him that I will call the cops and have him arrested for assault.
Do they check to see if you're wearing underwear?? lmfao
In general, I have no problem with dress codes even though some club owners may think I look like the type they want to keep out. Shoot, as we all know - and have to remind people whenever a related post comes up - slacks or dress pants are better to wear at the SC than jeans anyway. Also, it's pretty easy to make an outfit with basketball shorts look more 'respectable' than one with pants or slacks (matching helps a lot). I've gone to plenty of clubs dressed in such a manner and been complimented - almost as often as when I wear dress shirts and pants. As long as people look presentable, most clubs won't care - code or otherwise.
The girls can be in mini-dresses and high heels. Works quite well. Usually get her softened up and DFKing, then remove her dress.
SJG