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@rickdugan yes, I didn't mean to logicize that I would disagree with that conclusion (the one you state). I'm just abandoning the attempt to follow, or to find more information, about the story. Too much work. If the IBF tests are conclusive, then Khelif is a he. Your options (could have gotten further tests, sued, demanded, etc.) are quite intelligent, didn't mean to indicate I would necessarily reject. I do still assert that the IBF is largely controversial and therefore relying on their tests is maybe not possible, and that their test results have not been made in any way public (though, as you now inform me, the results were shared with Olympic committee) which means we (at TUSCL) have almost nothing to go on. I think the Olympics and Khelif both have made this more difficult than necessary. Show. Us. The. Willy. Geez, wouldn't that solve all of it? "Tests" for what? Why does it take chemical analysis to determine whether there is (a) a cavity, or (b) an appendage? Anyway. Meanwhile the supposedly-woke Olympics have canceled the breakdancer who displayed woke political slogans. (Afghan refugee with apron-cape with political message.) To me, over all, it's all adding up to stories of many many contradictions and incompetent choices, not necessarily in favor of more or of less woke-ism. This is sports administrators for ya'. BTW I'm pretty much anti-woke. I don't want chicks with dicks. I vote "left wing" because of social-services policy, but I object to cancel-culture (I miss my city's Confederate monuments, f.e.) and to (what I view as) excess intrusion of trans-gender experimentation surgery and mistakes among under-age people. So I'm not hunting for a way to support Khelif's supposed "right" to box as a female. I just don't believe we've established male-ness or female-ness. That should be the Olympics' job. They've totally botched it regardless of what the right conclusion should have been.

I think a lot of the choices depend on location. If you don't have good strip clubs but you do have good AMPs, pick the latter. In my town the AMPs got seriously busted and now operate very very gun-shy. Also it's a high-traffic tourist destination town. Both these factors mean you probably have to establish yourself well with specific providers at specific locations, or else you are highly likely to get the no-service tourist hustle instead of the legit. performance from the provider. So, I don't generally attend my local AMPs ... at least not until internet finding aids indicate otherwise. It's not that I have chosen to PREFER strip clubs over all AMPs as a general decision; rather, it's that my particular situation directs me away from our particular AMPs in this particular city.

I grew up eating avocado toast because we had wild avocado trees on the edges of the citrus grove. Only thing you could do with the little knotty "crab avocados" the trees gave, was to puree the innards for toast or guac. Libtard Seattle has good strip clubs, I am gathering from context. Weird combination, usually it's the right-wing locations that have good strip clubs (Miami? Dallas, Texas generally).

I don't think TUSCL is avoiding anything, or de-listing. I think people don't submit many things that are barely existing. Clubs come and go without notice on many internet finding aids. Black clubs are, generally, more evanescent than most. F.E., I recently added a primarily-Black "ghetto style" club in New Orleans to the listings. I haven't been and don't intend to go. It's mostly weekends, and, judging by its Instagram and Facebook presence, it's more a hype-project by a couple of rap-music DJ wanna-be types, than an actual location. They have some big parties with tons of people, invite only, make sure to hire several women who want to get "discovered" and be backup dancers in rap videos. For that one event, those few women twerk like hell but probably aren't going to be the on-call stage entertainment except when the right celebrity guest is watching. Would you call this a "strip club"? I suspect they don't "serve" alcohol, it's just everyone bringing bottles like at an after-party. If the place has an established location and an established set of business hours, it's more like a strip club. Those places have to exist long enough for people to bother to submit them to the listings, so that Founder can include them. Ultimately, the absence or presence in these listings of any venue, strip club or massage joint or whatever, is entirely down to the effectiveness of the club at engendering their own crowd-sourcing. If the clientele are internet savvy then a club will get submitted and therefore included in TUSCL's listings. If not, not.

You mean this? https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/10/29/youngkin-virginia-elections-voter-rolls/