Why Right Wingers are so adamant about "You shouldn't touch them"

[ck4829]

Researching the Right Wing, I've noticed that whenever they go on a tirade against adult entertainers, they say that you shouldn't be able to touch them. One such bill is being pushed by the Righties here in Ohio. The bill explicitly states that customers can not be within 6 feet of the dancer and she must be at all times two feet above the customer as well.

To see the story on this bill, go to:
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070304/NEWS01/70304014

But, what's the reason for this distance rule?

Could it be to prevent the giving of tips to dancers? You sort of have to go closer than 6 feet to give them money.

This is a way some people support themselves, some people view it as self-degrading or immoral, but it is a way of putting food on the table.

[kenny blankenship]

1. Is it really so hard to figure out?

It means their mommies didn't breast feed them when they were babies.
(And probably also that their mommies left them in their stinky diapers for hours when they had made a poo and would stand over them, always keeping a distance of six feet on the wall to wall carpet, to scold them for being disgusting little animals beyond hope of redemption.)

[zbdent]

16. Uh, that part about Repukes left in stinky diapers

Wasn't that in that listing that the Wash DC hooker was going to release ???

[NMMNG]

2. The Puritans are always at it

Looking at the body is evil, touching is more evil and sex is most evil of all. I'm surprised they haven't brought back the chastity belt and mandated artificial insemination for the purposes of breeding yet. :crazy:

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. Give them time Buffy

Give them time:crazy:

[NMMNG]

5. A bunch of hateful freaks is what they are

And scary too. :yoiks:

[Richard Steele]

12. Puritanism has been defined as "the dread fear that someone, somewhere, is HAPPY".

I think that really sums it up well.

[NMMNG]

18. Indeed

Plus the overriding compulsion to destroy that happiness. :-(

[cali]

6. Frankly, I think

exotic dancing is demeaning to women. And if cities and towns want to regulate it, I have no problem with that. The state, however, shouldn't be regulating it.

BTW, I think there's one exotic dancing club in my entire state, and I don't think we're the worse for it. In fact, quite the contrary.

[dkofos]

7. prude

[cgrindley]

13. Have you been in a strip bar?

When I was a college student in the midwest, my friends took me to this one strip bar where you tipped the strippers by folding dollar bills like little tents. The girls would then bend down and pick the money up with their vulvas. The typical routine consisted of three or four half-hearted spins on a pole, then the girl would whip out an ugly blanket and go around the stage simply gaping open her vagina.

Although I never saw anything like that in Canada, my first wife used to like going to the strip bars, and I cannot even count the number of ridiculously high girls (with bloody track marks--sometimes even on their feet) who were dancing.

People here have to realize that their neighborhood burlesque show has nothing at all to do with an actual strip bar. Nothing. The government absolutely should regulate the shit out of the industry. Ditto pr0n and prostitution. It should all be legalized, but it should be heavily regulated and include all sorts of safe guards as a form of harm reduction--as the sex trade will always prey upon the most vulnerable in society.

[dkofos]

15. Not the sleazy type you describe, but yes I have.

My nephew even worked at one, not that it makes a difference.

[NMMNG]

9. People do lots of jobs that are "demeaning" in one way or another

Cleaning people's toilets, scrubbing their floors, changing adult diapers, bussing tables, picking up trash, etc. Jobs exist, jobs need to be done and people need to make a living. It's a fact of life.

[MadHound]

4. It is a simply another one of their tactics

Rather than coming out an banning something outright, they try to destroy it incremently, hoping that it will wither on the vine. They're doing this with abortion, and now with exotic dancing. They figure if there is no touching, and no interaction within six feet, there will be less fun for the audience and less tips for the performers, equating less business in general. This goes along with the pasties and minimal dress rules also.

What's truly funny though, is that they will be cutting their base out of the action. From the studies I've seen the patrons of these places are mainly from the right wing of the political spectrum.

[gollygee]

8. I so don't care who touches what

I don't care so much that if I'd known this was about strippers I probably wouldn't have opened the thread.

I only care about who or what my husband touches. Outside of that, NOT MY BUSINESS. I don't understand why other people care about who or what people not married to them touch.

[cgrindley]

10. I think it has something to do with prostitution

you know, giving strip club patrons semi-public handjobs or blowjobs in roped off VIP areas.

Personally, I don't care. I support legalized and government regulated prostitution.

But I think you sort of have to be a little dense to not agree that "touching" rules are generally meant to cut down on really obvious, in your face somewhat public sex acts.

[Ian David]

11. It's so Republicans don't have to explain to their wives why they have glitter in their hair. n/t

[Edweird]

14. Here in south florida, we have the opposite.

Some clubs operate under a "private club" license, which makes them in effect "swingers clubs" so anything goes. They have signs warning that prostitution is illegal, but sex is allowed under the rules.

[aikoaiko]

17. Nakedness + touching = sex for the repressed.

In in all fairness, sometimes it is even at strip clubs.

And yes, there are many on the right (and some on the left wing) who would like to see all these places close down and if I 6 foot buffer zone law makes that happen then alls the better to the anti-strip club crowd. A 6-foot buffer zones while nude dancing and 2 foot buffer zones otherwise will likely lessen the opportunity for tips.