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NYC Targeting Strip Clubs By Going After Their Liquor Licenses


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Bronx strip club "Mr Wedge"
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Alcohol prohibition also zaps a major source of revenue for both clubs and dancers (who at many clubs rely on earning a percentage of the price of drinks that customers buy them). Bronx community leaders are, of course, delighted by this. "They can't make any money if they don't have a liquor license," Rafael Salamanca, the district manager of Bronx Community Board 2, gloated to the Times




University of California-Santa Barbara professor Daniel Linz, who has done substantial research on the issue, says there are problems with many of the studies that do purport to show huge crime increases in areas around sexually-oriented businesses. "Those studies that are scientifically credible demonstrate either no negative secondary effects associated with adult businesses or a reversal of the presumed negative effect," he told Salon in 2012. "We've done crime map after crime map after crime map of many cities and there just aren't clusters of crime around [strip clubs]. Most crime in most cities tends to occur around high schools." 

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  1. Damn socons.


    1. Both Team Red and Team Blue have large “God and government” bases. Especially in big cities, being a “tax, spend, and regulate” Democratic politician doesn’t mean you don’t kowtow to the local megachurch pastor at every opportunity.


        1. It really isn’t socons who are responsible for closing strip clubs, it’s moderates: people who really aren’t ideologic at all, but view this as a matter of “common sense”, “good gov’t”, “property values”, or some such. The socons are interested in more cutting-edge stuff; strip clubs are hardly even part of the culture war.


    1. Epi’s in Seattle. Rhywun is in NYC, I think.

      1. Yup and good, I hate working in NJ anyway.

    2. NYC is a prison colony, the prisoners are just kept blissfully ignorant of it… for now

      1. You’re shorter than I expected.



    1. Also, causation goes only one way. Strip clubs never end up in an area because it’s an urban wasteland.

      1. Well, it’s not like cities intentionally zone them into high crime areas. No, sirree, bob.

    2. You should see Arlington, Texas.

  4. In other words, community leaders are trumping up charges and relying on insinuations in order to use the state to shut down businesses of which they disapprove. It’s an old trick, but apparently still an effective one (cities tend to be all too happy to find reasons to shut down strip clubs, anyway).


  5. “Working class people are enjoying and/or bettering themselves. We must crush this.”

    That appears to be the entirety of NYC policy now.

    1. “My peasants are trying to escape the manor!”

      1. Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

        HL Mencken

  6. They pulled this shit out in Oswego county NY, now we have only 1 strip club which is constantly being threatened even though it operates on a fucking Island in the middle of a creek with no neighbors save for the trailer park. They had to put up surveillance cameras all over their establishment just to prove they weren’t running a brothel after several prostitution allegations were unfounded and dismissed.
    NY sucks never move here

  7. A few years ago round here some guy opened a topless coffee shop. Dude purchased the building outright and never bothered to insure it. Someone burned it down. Haven’t heard from him since.

  8. Boobs are scary.

  9. First they came for the titty bars, and I did not speak out because I had the internet…

  10. Prevalent stip clubbery has turned Portland, OR into an urban wasteland.

    Based on my fairly limited experience, the girls in Portland strip clubs are in a league by themselves. Especially this one redhead…. I’ll be back.

  11. Strip clubs never did anything for me. I mean, what’s the point of being surrounded by jiggly bits that you can’t touch?

    1. You never have that problem at the gloryhole, on the other hand.

      1. That is correct. Unlike the titty bar, there was nothing around that I wanted to touch.

        1. Wait, you’ve been to a gloryhole???

          1. Yeah. Don’t you remember? You took me there.

          2. This might jog your memory.

    2. Yeah. I never really wanted to sit around in a dark room with a bunch of dudes watching a lady we are paying to be naked. I’m married now, but in my un-married years, I was able to pick up girls pretty well. So if I wanted to see boobies, I’d go to a bar or night club, and pick up a chick.

      1. Exactly.

      2. The guys I’ve known who went to those places a lot took Jimmy Soul’s advice. Maybe they went to the club to rev-up their engine, so to speak.

  12. State goes after abortion clinics using health and safety regulations.

    Live by the regulatory state, die by the regulatory state.

  13. Every time I go to Times Square I weep a little inside. I miss the old days. All the sin is gone, and they have freaking benches and bike paths on fucking Broadway like it’s some pussy Oregon City.

    1. You too miss the flashers in trenchcoats.

      1. It’s so cold out there right now they’re reduced to describing themselves.

    2. All the sin is gone


  14. Apparently we should zone strip clubs next to high schools, in order to reduce the crime rate!

  15. (Prog persona warning)


    And don’t let that “study” fool you – it is coming from the anti-science crowd. Of course there’s more crime next to strip clubs – evil exploiters want to further subjugate the slave women. Just think about it. The teens who are angry at this try to rise up and vent their anger and resentment at their loss of agency. It’s not crime. It’s happy protest movement.

  16. California banned strip joints from having liquor licences 45 years ago.

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