By PETER RUGG
The Pitch — along with, apparently, every other media outlet in town — received an e-mail Tuesday for a free family portrait by photographer Michael T. Van De Carr at Temptations, a strip club downtown on Grand.
So this afternoon, I was joined by the Ginger Man and a resident women’s objectification expert – we’ll call her Cassandra — to scout the downtown gentlemen’s club. By the appointed time of 12:30, there were only a few, lightly perspiring men in dark suits waving placards with random slogans — and no one had taken the bait for free photos. There was one tall man with a fat digital camera, though unfortunately, he carried no Olan Mills-style backdrops. Disheartened, we got a table at Willie’s, where we could lean out the long, open windows and wait for something to happen.
Not much did, except for a circle jerk involving the local TV-news crews that did show up and a waxing crowd of the anti-strip-club crowd (captured in the photo below).
But no one except The Pitch, with this blog item, actually publicized the event beforehand. And even we were only a few hours ahead. So it seems reasonable that few Temptations regulars even knew about the sting.
By 1 p.m., the crowd started to disperse. We’d expected them to go at least an hour or at least wait for someone to come to the club. Cassandra and I jumped through the window and ran toward the crowd, holding hands so that they might assume we were a couple.
“I don’t want to be respected!” she said. “And how about the First Amendment?”
“I love watching tities! Let’s go watch some tits!” I said.
Unfortunately, they didn’t tell us about the error of our ways or offer to take a picture. Maybe it’s because we didn’t have a child with us. One man did tell us to have a blessed day, though.
We did go into Temptations to see if they’d barricaded themselves in, like the losing side in the last days of a war waiting out the artillery shells. But aside from one Amazonian bartender, a waitress and a security guard near the stage, the place was empty. There wasn’t even a dancer performing. Next door at the Cigar Box, the hostess told us the Christians had been taking photos of people’s parked cars and shots of the drivers getting out when they could. Perhaps they’ll be circulated later on a Web site, to shame them for parking within 30 feet of a place that, later today, will feature topless women.
“It’s all right though,” the hostess told us. “We just put on the music really loud and blasted them out. They left pretty soon.”
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I love how christians are the first to teach about love and not judging one another but are the first to hate and to judge people on their occupations or lifestyles.
"Live and Let Live"
This doesn't mean that these women are making any less of themselves they are doing this to support themselves. If you really want to "help" them then you pay their house bills, car bills, insurance, medical bills, clothes, food, shelter, etc. So for you people with less common sense than others this isn't making women any less of themselves its survival. Its being independent. Even if the girl likes what she does what buisness of it is yours? If you don't want to see it DON'T GO THERE!
This is a free country. Read the Amendments. Like the first one for example. Freedom of speech, Freedom of Religion (meaning not everyone there is a christian), Freedom of Press, Freedom of assembly, and Freedom to protest.
Basically you all are waisting your time, narrow minded with no common sense. Again, don't like it don't look.
There is no "Amazon Bartender" whoever wrote that apparently has no idea what an amazon is.
If you want to protest something start with education because people are just dumb these days.
THANKS!!
i do not think the protesters understand that if temptations does not expand that it is full nudity and full contact lap dances, but if it does expand it will be topless and only table dances which are no contact. If this is the case then why are they protesting? Does this mean they are for nudity and full contact dances. Before they protest things they should check out what they are protesting about. As for the Amazon Bartender, never seen one in there and they have no waitresses.
Their signs say things like "I Love Downtown Kansas City." But these fools only showed up in downtown when it became mall-like and bland, and now they want to do away with the one thing that seperates Power & Light from the Legends or Zona Rosa.
Why don't church folk do helpful stuff like helping the poor? Or putting a sock into it?
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