“Politicians and business people have been taking clients to adult-entertainment clubs for decades,” said a baffled Angelina Spencer, executive director of the Association of Club Executives, which represents 3,800 strip clubs around the country. “Unfortunately, due to the nature of the entertainment — i.e., scantily clad ladies — people get up in arms.”…
Don Waitt, the publisher of Exotic Dancer Magazine, went so far as to suggest that strip clubs were a classic piece of Americana: Norman Rockwell in a pair of Lucite heels.
“The analogy I always use,” he said, “is to the ‘smoker rooms’ our grandfathers went to. They’d have cigars, drink some drinks, maybe play gin. That’s what gentlemen’s clubs are today. Guys go there. So the entertainment happens to be girls dancing on a stage rather than TV’s showing football.”
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