Why are there so many strip clubs in Portland?

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by drum bro

I'd rather go to a maid caffe. Not really expensive, no flashing lights and girls are nicer

A maid caffe? Not sure I am familiar with that term.

[Sherwoody]

Originally Posted by urbanlife78

A maid caffe? Not sure I am familiar with that term.

It's a Japanese thing.

[karlsch]

Time to revive a thread from a less troubled time in Portland.

“Strippers on strike: Why dancers at one bar in America's strip club capital won't go back to work”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/stripp...t-go-back-work

[Rob Allen]

The state constitution is a big piece of why there are so many strip clubs. It protects free speech and dancing has been deemed a type of speech. There is also another reason that clubs here might feel different. The dancers are politically active here in forming unions and other causes. So many women dance for money and put most of their life into their causes, not just unionizing the dancers. There is a big push to decriminalize all voluntary sexual activity including for money. Prostitution is the economic activity that allows all marginalized cultural groups to fund their civil rights organizing, This is how Spanish speaking and Asian activists fund their political activity if they can't get jobs. Same for LGBTQ+ youth who are thrown out of their homes and come here because at least their orientation isn't illegal here.

[gemstone1]

"Why are there so many strip clubs in Portland?" Supply vs Demand ?

[EasyBeezy]

Prostitution is the economic activity that allows all marginalized cultural groups to fund their civil rights organizing, This is how Spanish speaking and Asian activists fund their political activity if they can't get jobs.

Ummm, OK. So, I guess Martin Luther King was a pimp.

As for Portland, it has like half as many strip clubs as it did 10 years ago. It just is not a worthwhile use of funds.

[Luckystrike1]

I don't think there's as many of them as there used to be.

[ccjarider]

Originally Posted by Rob Allen

The state constitution is a big piece of why there are so many strip clubs. It protects free speech and dancing has been deemed a type of speech. There is also another reason that clubs here might feel different. The dancers are politically active here in forming unions and other causes. So many women dance for money and put most of their life into their causes, not just unionizing the dancers. There is a big push to decriminalize all voluntary sexual activity including for money. Prostitution is the economic activity that allows all marginalized cultural groups to fund their civil rights organizing, This is how Spanish speaking and Asian activists fund their political activity if they can't get jobs. Same for LGBTQ+ youth who are thrown out of their homes and come here because at least their orientation isn't illegal here.

This response is funny. It implies a whole lot of "political activism", state constitution or other silliness has a determination over what is a basic form of supply and demand.


The author assume the activity of the seller (dancers unionizing and making dancing a "cause") is a reason the trade exists here in volume.



Got news for ya - The buyer (ie. horny men) determine the amount of product, not the seller.