“Sorry I have to be at least 2 feet away from you!!”

April 25, 2006 at 9:59 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

“I can give you a lap dance, but I have to be at least two feet away from you,” can you image hearing that from a performer in a strip club? One of the topics discussed in lecture 32, was the law in California that performers couldn’t be any closer than two feet from their clients. This made lap dances illegal. When thinking about this issue it seems a little absurd that lap dances should be outlawed. Yes, it would help protect the performers from being touched when they didn’t want to be. But wouldn’t it also decrease cliental for strip clubs? Not many guys are going to want to go to a strip club simply to watch girls take off their clothes, many go there for other “services” as well, such as lap dances. Not to mention that many of the performers want to give their clients lap dances in order to earn some extra cash. In a recent issue of Generation, it discusses how a strip club in Canada kept getting in trouble with the law because they allowed their performers to give clients blowjobs in private rooms. I believe that if we’re going to attempt to regulate what can go on at strip clubs we should be more concerned with things such as blowjobs than harmless lap dances.

Lap dances are often done in the main room of strip clubs, whereas blowjobs would most likely take place in a more private room. This would leave the performers at more of a risk of being raped or injured by their clients than by giving their clients a lap dance in a room with many other people present. Lap dances don’t have the risk of transmitting any sexually transmitted diseases, nor does it have any risk or pregnancy. So I wonder why exactly did the state of California outlaw lap dances?

Maybe they felt that some of their performers were being violated even in front of many other people. If this was the case, I believe that the state of California should’ve made laws that required strip clubs to have more bouncers to watch and help protect the performers. By making lap dances illegal, it will make clients of strip clubs want them even more, therefore cliental from strip clubs in California is likely to travel to other states where it’s legal to get lap dances. And strip clubs are more likely to break the law and allow lap dances to take place in secluded rooms in order to generate more revenue. I think that the law that outlaws lap dances in California will end up hurting the state more than it will help whatever they believed they were going to control.