The court decided that the law, which also disallows contact between dancers and customers, "didn't ban sexually oriented businesses of any type," the Star reports. "Rather, it seeks to reduce negative secondary effects associated with such businesses, including detrimental health and sanitary conditions, prostitution and drug-related crimes both inside and outside these locations, as well as deterioration of the surrounding neighborhoods," the ruling said.
The ruling is the latest setback for the nude-club industry. Last year, The Pitch wrote exhaustively about former state Sen. Matt Bartle's war on exposed dancers. Owners were concerned that dancers would leave the state, and suddenly Kansas looked to club owners like a lawless land of flaunted areolas.
Dick Bryant, attorney for the club owners who sued over the law, told the Associated Press, "We believe the decision is a major erosion of rights of free expression afforded under the constitutions of Missouri and the United States."
The club owners are now considering taking their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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It's legal to be topless in public in Missouri, right? But not in a strip club?
Totally constitutional. The supreme court will eat this alive if they hear it.
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Gee, I didn't realize that naked breasts were unsanitary. And who knew that drinking beer while looking at them was unhealthy, or looking at them after midnight?
Gee, I feel so much safer now.
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I expect the number of single mothers on public assistance skyrocketed after this...
I don't see what the big deal is. Ever since strippers were no longer allowed to show their nipples the quality of life for children all over Missouri improved.
Like being able to get a valid diploma from a high school for example.....
At least when there were nude clubs, police knew where shit was going on. Now.. you've just pushed it into the neighborhoods. Look, if women want to take their clothes off for money, and men want to pay for it, fine. As far as raising crime rates around these clubs, PUT MORE COPS ON THE STREETS NEAR THE CLUBS. Nudity isn't a crime. Go to the west coast, where, in some cities, you can literally walk around town naked. It's bullshit moral extremists that want to legislate morality simply because they fucked up and married women that get jealous easily. Nothing more than "If I can't do it, neither can you," type of shit. Naked women SHOULD be admired.
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