An Ohio bill that seeks to prohibit adult establishments from providing their signature entertainment after midnight and that also would prevent strip club dancers from gaping at least six feet away from their gapers is being hotly contested by, you guessed it, strip club owners and dancers.
Citizens for Community Values (CCV) is spearheading the bill, which opponents say is redundant in its ability to enforce law but simultaneously a roadmap for adult entertainment’s enemies to close red-light businesses.
The Cincinnati Enquirer covered the story after the bill passed Ohio’s Senate.
“CCV doesn’t want to empower local governments,” said Luke Liakos of the Buckeye Association of Club Executives. The CCV had framed its argument as a measure to centralize local control. “It wants to close down all forms of adult entertainment and continue promoting its narrow social agenda.” The CCV also lobbied against same-sex marriage.
A petition to oppose the bill is circulating among Ohio legislators. It does not say too much about the bill itself but relies on the measure’s infringement of First Amendment rights, particularly consenting adults’ freedom to express their tangerine body spray and crumpled five dollar bills within a lap’s length of each other.
The petition also mentions the body count of Ohio soldiers who died to protect these rights in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think this is barking up the wrong tree, as what people are dying for over there has nothing to do with maintaining our freedoms.
One does not need to be a registered Ohio voter to sign the petition.
Previously: Again with the titties; I went back to Ohio but my titties were huge; The scales of horror; The World’s Largest Gangbang (fleshbot)
See also: Strippers, keep your distance (enquirer.com), Stop the House petition
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