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Wow, what and atrocity! How dare sex work be carried out in a place with security and safeguards! What would Jesus think?!?! Oh, wait....
Illegal strip club brothels are AWFUL. Owners are scum, they'll threaten and blacklist dancers that don't put up, get women on drugs and under their thumbs. Just pimps with a storefront.
What we want is actual legal prostitution, where there are actual regulations and safety checks, not just illusion.
I didn't think I needed the /s
Then again, what's to stop a legal brothel owner from doing the same shady shit? The authority figures were already paid off!
Mandatory third party audits like we do with every other regulated industry.
Come to where I live and see auditors paid off.
So what 3rd party was inspecting the strip club then? Obviously it's not EVERY industry.
I think you missed a word there
You're just slippery sloping. Obviously if every level of oversight is corrupt you're fucked, but if the 3rd party auditors have proper monitoring by the state, who has proper monitoring by the feds, there's several levels of checks and balances.
what’s to stop a legal brothel owner from doing the same shady shit?
If you're genuinely curious, research the legal brothel industry in Nevada.
Oh now they care about lobbying
what else is a small town strip club for, my brothers and sisters
You can't really call Harvey a small town. It's part of the Chicago (sub)urban sprawl, and a pretty bad area.
I was trying to work out who Harvey III was ffs
Harvey, Ill.,
I guess Illinois people hate Helvetica.
I see you
So there most definitely is Sex in the Champagne Room,.. and drugs.
Does Illinois have anit-pimping laws and is the mayor being charged with them?
Some people will do anything for money
I don’t care to register to continue reading. Are prosecutors state or federal?
Federal
Excellent! Thank you, it was late and I was tired.
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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