There will be new laws/regulations in post-COVID era. Primarily around managing recurring spread of this virus and similar ones.
As law makers mull over - business to business and industry to industry - Salons, Bars, Retail, Dentists, Gyms, amusement parks, movies, planes ... there will be 5 minutes given to strip clubs.
At that 5-minute moment - the DA or the public attorney turns out to be a bitch with a Nicole-type bitter past, the proposal would state - "For protecting the dancers and club employees and patrons, there must be no touching, a minimum of 6 ft distance maintained at all times and face masks worn at all times."
No law-maker would object and in it goes into the new set of rules and regulations.
After the first city passes this - an expected standard will be set across many states, if not all.
No senator/congressman wants to fight this - can be used against them during re-election.
And club owners, dancers, patrons will spend years fighting this - and mostly whining.
Prostitution (money for sex between consenting, healthy adults) has been kept illegal for decades on the weak and unsubstantiated basis that it promotes trafficking of minors (& drugs). Every responsible monger agrees that trafficking of minors is illegal and criminal and must have commensurate punishment. But what two consenting adults, of sane mind and body, do, is a fundamental right of freedom.
Hoping this post is also filed as a work of fiction !
It's kept illegal because dudes setting those policies don't want to hear their WAGs bitch about the endless supply of chicks that men can go find instead of dealing with ultimatum drama at home.