(Reuters) Strip Club Artfully Slips by Anti-Nudity Law

[Up2Late]

Fri Feb 18, 2005 08:13 AM ET
BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - A strip club in Boise, Idaho has found an artful way to prance past a city law that prohibits full nudity.
On what it calls Art Club Nights, the Erotic City strip club charges customers $15 for a sketch pad, pencil, and a chance to see completely naked women dancers.

In 2001 the Boise City Council passed an ordinance banning total nudity in public unless it had "serious artistic merit" -- an exemption meant to apply to plays, dance performances and art classes.

"We have a lot of people drawing some very good pictures," said Erotic City owner Chris Teague, who has posted many of the drawings around the club.

Teague said he got the idea when a customer asked if he could get in for free to sketch the dancers. Realizing that "art classes" were exempt from the law, Teague decided to bill Mondays and Tuesdays as art nights, and let the dancers go without their G-strings and pasties.

In the two months since they began, Art Club Nights have drawn full crowds of 60 people but no police citations, he said.

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(Looks like their are a few Democrats in the Reds Idaho):headbang:

[Mojambo]

1. I love it!

I can almost hear the conservatives howling.

[KitchenWitch]

2. back in the 70s the clubs around here had the dancers wear

clear plastic sheeting to get around the "nudity" ban.

[Up2Late]

4. How did that work, floor to ceiling?

That's better than Indiana. I only went to ONE strip club (when I tuned 18) in Indiana.

Indiana make the strippers wear pasties AND bottoms (I don't think even G-strings were aloud).

Needless to say, most of them ended up being "Over the Hill" as we used to say.

They did seem to want you to buy VERY expensive "Drinks," in the back room. Odd??? :shrug:

[jdots]

3. It should be the other way around

The guys are naked and the strippers wear overcoats while they do charcoal drawings of them.
" Freeper Nights " are on Mondays,the freepers are naked and draw goats & sheep. bah.