Detroit bans lap dances in strip clubs; let the exodus begin

As if the city of Detroit didn’t already have a massive parting of the Red Sea, this new strip club law certainly won’t help.

The City Council approved a crackdown on the city’s 31 topless clubs today that bans VIP rooms and lap dancing, but still allows them to serve booze.

The vote was 6-3, with Kwame Kenyatta, JoAnn Watson and Brenda Jones dissenting. The council voted unanimously to pass new zoning regulations limiting where new clubs could open.

I’m not sure I entirely understand the motive behind this. Detroit’s economy is in the crapper so you are taking away businesses? If the goal is for people to spend more money on something a little more “thoughtful”, then I could maybe understand the logic. But when you build three major casinos within spitting distance of each other, you really throw logic right into the cesspool of a Detroit crack house.

I guess the strip club owners, as shady as they may be, didn’t have the pull or the cash flow to bribe politicians this time around. If former mayor and pimp extraordinaire Kwame Kilpatrick were still in office, this wouldn’t have been a problem. The man single-handedly kept three strip clubs open with his own “personal business” on a Friday night.

I do, however, agree with councilman Ken Cockrel’s assertion that city residents need to concentrate on better things.

Cockrel said he had never seen the council auditorium so packed Monday, but said he wishes residents had the same kind of passion about other challenges facing the city, such as homelessness and joblessness.

“Where is that outrage about a young girl being raped on the way to school,” Cockrel said. “We have bigger fish to fry. Let’s get passionate about that stuff.”

Considering the topic at hand is strippers, let’s keep future references to “fish” at a minimum, shall we?

Detroit passes new rules on strip clubs {DetNews}

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