Thursday, April 29, 2010

Lap dances survive in Kansas ... for now

Posted by Justin Kendall on Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:40 AM

click to enlarge Nudity survives in Kansas strip club's ... for the moment.
  • Nudity survives in Kansas strip club's ... for the moment.

Kansas strip club enthusiasts, your laps are still a legal landing spot for dancers of the exotic kind.

The Kansas Senate deadlocked -- a vote of 20-20 -- Wednesday on a bill (S.B. 514) that would have regulated strip clubs and adult bookstores, sending the bill back to committee.

The bill is pretty much the same thing we've seen in Missouri. Strippers would have to stay six-feet away from customers and ban nudity and touching. There's more such as regulating where adult business can be open and how late they can stay open.

Despite a plea from Sen. Tim Huelskamp that the bill is "very

constitutional and very commonsensical," the bill didn't pass. But Sen.

Minority Leader Anthony Hensley reportedly called lawmakers who

supported the bill hypocrites for championing "open markets and personal

independence" while trying to crack down on personal freedoms.

But

you better use your dollar bills while you can, the bill still might

work its way out of committee.

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I hope they realize how many groups of girls i know packing up to move to a different state! At least at my club we are required to file and pay taxes, over 75% of us are in school, 50% own homes, and keep cash flow moving in a recession. Well i guess if they want to have this many tax payers move out of there state, then so be it! But besides us: we have numerous others loosin out: the bartenders, managers, bouncers, security gaurds, clothing stores, shoe stores, the taxi drivers who drive most of us, any makeup store including walmart, any college most of us are paying cash for!, Hair stylist, nail techs, any waitress that serves us...we tend to tip more than the average person...out of respect, and the list could go on and on. Its sad that I am a Christian and believe theres something wrong with trying to pass a bill thats a waste of time and money, it is someones moral decision to work or go to a club.....why get rid of a place thats actually helping so many people out in this time of need. Again good luck when most of us move to a surrounding state!!!!

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Posted by Bambii on 05/12/2010 at 12:46 PM

After settling the issue of whether or not the state should govern morality, Chuck and Rebecca turned their minds to Palestinian statehood, crafting a proposal that garnered hosannas from all interested parties and ushering in a new era of peace.

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Posted by Willie on 05/02/2010 at 9:13 PM

well i agree, it doesn't seem that a sicko who has interest in children would translate to getting turned on by a full-grown woman at a strip club. i am guessing that many of the child victims would be the unfortunate child who shared a home with their attacker. it has been since college that i have looked at these studies. they were provided in sociology. one i remember was out of phoenix in the 70's. stated that crime against children and women was 506% more likely in areas of the city with sexually oriented businesses. seems staggering. if i can find the article i will try to link it to you.

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Posted by rebecca1 on 04/30/2010 at 3:59 PM

Obviously, morals are different between people. But, most laws come down to whether someone is being hurt or could potentially be hurt by an action. No one is getting hurt in a strip club.

There are two strip clubs within a half mile of my girlfriend. I don't see any negative effects from them whatsoever.

You say these things are fact but they're not. Maybe those studies found that strip clubs have a higher rate of child molesters than average or spouses are more likely to cheat. I wouldn't know, you haven't cited any.

That doesn't mean that strip clubs are the cause of those things. Spouses go to strip clubs because they are cheaters, if they didn't go to a strip club, they'd go to a bar and pick up women and actually have sex with them, which is much worse than anything done in a strip club.

And, I don't get the child molester thing. How does looking at adults make anyone interested in children? You could also say the same thing about suburbs. There are a higher number of child molesters living in the suburbs than the urban core. Should we ban suburbs?

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Posted by Chuck1 on 04/30/2010 at 3:33 PM

chuck, i was responding to the statement about how our government already regulates morality. your morality is different than mine. if the government did not regulate morality we would be living in a state of anarchy. all i'm saying is that the definition of morality changes to suit the times. was it wrong for our government to outlaw public executions? was it wrong for our government to set an appropriate age for marriage? it is not insanity to state the facts, people who frequent strip clubs are more likely to molest a child or rape a woman. that is why we don't want strip clubs in residential areas. duh. look up the statistics on line. statistics compiled in many studies also indicate that a man who frequents strip clubs is more likely to cheat on his spouse. it is FACT. deal with it. if indeed a community starts to see negative reprecussions from a strip club does it have the right to change the law to protect the inhabitants? absolutely it does. psychology and sociology have advanced to the point that we are able to define and catalog the consequences of certain activities.
go put a strip club a half mile from your daughters house, or if you don't have a daughter, your mother or grandmothers house. if you beleive that i am so wrong, try to move them in next door. bet you wouldn't like it and would be worrying about the "pervs" going in and out of the strip club.

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Posted by rebecca1 on 04/30/2010 at 3:21 PM

Rebecca, maybe child molesters go to strip clubs as a release because they don't want to molest children. Do you really think going to a strip club would lead to child molestation? That's insane.

Rape and murder? Awesome. Some girl grinding on a dude for $10 is basically the same thing? Wow.

Get a grip. How much more likely is it that a Catholic priest is a child molester than someone at a strip club? 90%?

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Posted by Chuck1 on 04/30/2010 at 2:17 PM

Rebecca, by your own numbers we should ban the Catholic church, too.

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Posted by Duh on 04/29/2010 at 10:34 PM

post script...if you don't want morality legislated we should do away with punishing people for murder and rape...those things don't register as a bad thing on some peoples moral compass...and another thing...people who frequent strip clubs are almost 10% more likely to molest a child...by some estimates that is conservative.:)

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Posted by rebecca1 on 04/29/2010 at 9:46 PM

oh the republicans...oh but we have the typical democrat showing their lack of class with "pussy," "cock..." pathetic. maybe instead of spending money on whores you should buy your kids a new pair of shoes or something. flowers for your wife? if you don't have a child or wife, maybe donate your money to a local food drive? god forbid.

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Posted by rebecca1 on 04/29/2010 at 9:43 PM

Of course there are more strip clubs within ten miles of the capital than in any other place in the entire state.

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Posted by Duh on 04/29/2010 at 8:26 PM

Thank God. I am tired of these republicans imposing their right wing morality on my life!

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Posted by AJ1 on 04/29/2010 at 2:20 PM

Im gonna go get some K2 in Missouri then go to Kansas smoke it then get a lap dance. Im lying I would never smoke K2, it's the devils herbs. DON'T LEGISLATE MORALITY!

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Posted by ben on 04/29/2010 at 12:39 PM

What about a compromise?

How about for those 5 minutes the stripper is grinding on your stiff cock with her luscious ass, plump breasts or thinly clothed pussy she is mandated, by state law no less, to whisper directly into your ear all that insane stuff Kansas keeps trying to put into their textbooks? You know, about there being no dinosaurs, Mary really was a virgin, Phill Kline is the second coming of Jesus Keee-rist! and the whole rest of the bible is the actual, literal truth?

That would guarantee that no vital bodily fluids were issued. (Or would in my case.)

Is that a Solomonic decision or what?

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Posted by Nick on 04/29/2010 at 11:53 AM

Any God fearing heterosexual man has to understand God's plan with the God-intended attraction to the female body. The visual part and non-fornicating part of strip clubs I guess is too ALMOST sin-like for many of these politicians. To them, I say, govern your own sex drive, and let me ALMOST sin until I run out of money.

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Posted by OP Realist on 04/29/2010 at 11:36 AM

If you're going to make them stay 6 feet away and ban nudity why not just ban strip clubs? What is really scary is that this nearly passed.

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Posted by Abe on 04/29/2010 at 10:51 AM
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