Strip Club Artfully Slips by Anti-Nudity Law

[ChiefsOne]

This is a great idea!

Feb 18, 8:13 AM (ET)

BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - A strip club in Boise, Idaho has found an artful way to prance past a city law that prohibits full nudity.

On what it calls Art Club Nights, the Erotic City strip club charges customers $15 for a sketch pad, pencil, and a chance to see completely naked women dancers.

In 2001 the Boise City Council passed an ordinance banning total nudity in public unless it had "serious artistic merit" -- an exemption meant to apply to plays, dance performances and art classes.

"We have a lot of people drawing some very good pictures," said Erotic City owner Chris Teague, who has posted many of the drawings around the club.

Teague said he got the idea when a customer asked if he could get in for free to sketch the dancers. Realizing that "art classes" were exempt from the law, Teague decided to bill Mondays and Tuesdays as art nights, and let the dancers go without their G-strings and pasties.

In the two months since they began, Art Club Nights have drawn full crowds of 60 people but no police citations, he said.

[HC_Chief]

Good job! :thumb:

[ChiefsOne]

I wished I would have thought of going to a strip club for our art classes in college. We usually had nasty (looking) chicks in our drawing and painting classes. Most were out of shape and had hair under their arms.

[unlurking]

Nice!

Need to open an art club in my basement! ;)

[Mr. Laz]

time for a constitutional amendment to end this "sinner" fun

[Rain Man]

I support the arts.

[Frazod]

Brilliant! I love it when zealots are beaten down by loopholes. :D

[Saulbadguy]

Heh.

[Valiant]

going with the stripper theme... our sackless government is trying to pass a law that will:

Gov. Matt Blunt's no-new-taxes pledge might have one exception: porn.

Blunt said recently that he might support a bill sponsored by Sen. Matt Bartle, a Lee's Summit Republican, to enact new taxes and tighter regulations on strip clubs, adult bookstores and other sexually oriented businesses.

“I favor greater restrictions on the industry,” Blunt said. “We need to create more jobs in Missouri, but those aren't the kind of jobs we want to create.”

The bill, which the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved, would impose a $5-per-patron charge on adult-theme businesses and enact a 20 percent tax on adjusted gross receipts. In addition, the measure would prohibit patrons from tipping strippers, and it would require sexually oriented businesses to close at 10 p.m.

Owners of strip clubs and adult businesses in Missouri said the measure would put them out of business. Some also argue that the measure might run afoul of First Amendment protections.

A state fiscal analysis of the legislation said it is difficult to say how much the new taxes on sexually-oriented businesses might generate, since the number of patrons these businesses have is unknown. However, the state would spend an expected $335,000 in the first year of implementation of the law to enforce it, the analysis said.

Officials with the Kansas City Division of Regulated Industries argued in a letter that the current law is enough, and the city asked for an exception to the new regulations if they become law.

Blunt said some of the businesses have a “bad track record” that has created public health problems. More regulation is needed, he said.

Asked if he supported Bartle's legislation, Blunt said: “I would imagine that's the type of legislation I would sign.”

The bill is SB 32.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/10944667.htm?1c

[dilligaf]

This is a great idea!

Feb 18, 8:13 AM (ET)

BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - A strip club in Boise, Idaho has found an artful way to prance past a city law that prohibits full nudity.

On what it calls Art Club Nights, the Erotic City strip club charges customers $15 for a sketch pad, pencil, and a chance to see completely naked women dancers.

In 2001 the Boise City Council passed an ordinance banning total nudity in public unless it had "serious artistic merit" -- an exemption meant to apply to plays, dance performances and art classes.

"We have a lot of people drawing some very good pictures," said Erotic City owner Chris Teague, who has posted many of the drawings around the club.

Teague said he got the idea when a customer asked if he could get in for free to sketch the dancers. Realizing that "art classes" were exempt from the law, Teague decided to bill Mondays and Tuesdays as art nights, and let the dancers go without their G-strings and pasties.

In the two months since they began, Art Club Nights have drawn full crowds of 60 people but no police citations, he said.
The strip clubs here in Idaho are lame. They are really just bikini bars. And this one was especially lame. i havent been in there since this new deal, but I should check it out.

[unlurking]

The strip clubs here in Idaho are lame. They are really just bikini bars. And this one was especially lame. i havent been in there since this new deal, but I should check it out.
Be sure to bring back pics!

[KCWolfman]

I heard this on the news the other day.

Very clever.

[whoman69]

Here in Iowa they have the law that dancers cannot be totally nude if alcohol is served. It took a while for non-alcoholic bars to pop up. The most famous example of the law broken was when a group of state legislators had their party busted for having totally nude strippers.

I hope the law in Missouri backfires on them. I would think that the law would be taken to court and thrown out as unconstitutional. Hopefully, its never signed.