Until the dancing license also allows prostitution there is no reason for health requirements. Pussy to patron contact is already illegal.

Yes Hank. There is a strong likelihood that those bachelor parties you are forced to go to may not be reflective of the overall strip club universe.

The burden of proof is on the person making the claim. If you have some evidence, show it.

So Lyft and Uber pulling their business in a place that clearly needs them ... not an optimal outcome.

Perhaps you would think differently if you were aware strip clubs are far more likely to have certain illegal activity (assaults which includes fights, shootings, stabbing) than virtually any other place generally open to the public other than correctional facilities.

I’d be ok with requiring background checks and/or licensing in order to patronize a strip club. Then maybe I won’t have to go to any more of them for bachelor parties.

nowhere in this argument does the writer acknowledge the purported reason for stripper licensing: Policing prostitution and reducing sex trafficking. We can have an honest argument about whether licensing actually has an impact, but pointing to it and implying “yeah you uber drivers are just like this” is pretty dense

And how does taxing employees regulate a specific business or keep the mob out?

But the people that make these decisions go by their 2000 year old book of myths and legends. They will tell you that the dancer is a harlot and should be banned, let alone licensed. The licensing schemes for dancers has nothing to do with public safety, but more to do with trying to discourage them and eliminate the…

You literally have 0.0000 common sense. Why the fuck do strippers need to be vetted by the State at all moron? (that’s rhetorical)