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As Missouri weighs curbs on clubs, opponents stress it?s a job in tough times

By Alliance Alert

Wall Street Journal: "Last month, the Republican-controlled legislature passed one of the nation's toughest state laws aimed at strip clubs and other adult-entertainment venues. It would ban nude dancing and the serving of alcohol in adult cabarets, force strip clubs to close at midnight and forbid seminude dancers to touch patrons. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat who counts job creation among his top priorities, must decide whether to sign or veto the bill. ... Club owners and dancers say that the venues rarely attract crime, and that the new rules would be so strict that hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in state revenue could be lost at a time when Missouri's economy is struggling to recover from the recession." | SB 586 |Related: Missouri General Assembly passes strip club regulation bill | For data regarding the negative "secondary effects," including crime, caused by sexually oriented businesses, see the Studies: Sexually Oriented Businesses category at the Community Defense Counsel website.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 22, 2010 (boomark / email).