Slog - Comments on Handjobs and Strippers: Your Tax Dollars At Work

Comment by MadDog

MadDog — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:37:32 -0800

This is what happens when you restrict this shit--look at Portland, they have hundreds of AWESOME strip clubs! No one gives a fuck down there....thats it im moving...

Comment by JD

JD — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:42:50 -0800

Is it so bad that all I want are some tits shaking in front of my face while I enjoy a nice cold beer?

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:05:51 -0800

Maybe the WSLCB could open up a chain of titty bars in their liquor stores. Shut at 7, all day Sunday, too, just like God intended.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:05:59 -0800

Good riddance to the Colacurcios. Please clearly explain why The Stranger is depending them. Do you think strip clubs are impossible without two bit mobsters?

Comment by Sam M.

Sam M. — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:14:28 -0800

BOREDOM?!?!? You really think we're gonna believe the idea that officers chose not to fully document their night's work cuz they were bored? Boy, I'd love if that same excuse was used in a lackadaisical writeup of an officer shooting someone. "Yawn, ya know? These things happen so often, man. You know, if I was the chief, I'd put me in charge of strip club protocol. THAT'S some action."

Comment by Dougsf

Dougsf — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:15:24 -0800

#4 - kinda agree.

This could just as easily be a case of the fed's "it's hard to pin them for what they're really up to, so we'll get'em for this."

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:35:13 -0800

@4: maybe because they ARE two-bit, and the city keeps trying to make them out to be the Sopranos, and because it's the stupid city regulations that keep the Colacurcios in control.

Comment by tsm

tsm — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:57:19 -0800

What @4 said. (Elenchos is on a roll today.) You don't have to be a sex-hating Puritan nutjob to find this whole affair a little slimy.

Comment by mentro

mentro — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:46:29 -0800

Elenchos @4:

"Good riddance to the Colacurcios. Please clearly explain why The Stranger is depending them."

Because Frank C. is 90, and Depends come in handy.

Comment by steve

steve — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:02:44 -0800

First - the report is 100 pages long, detailing every single interaction with dancers at 4 clubs over 3 years WOULD be boring.

Second - I'm all for legalizing prostitution, but when you read the testimonies by some of the dancers, you see clearly that many of these women are forced or pressured into it by the "rent" fee. It's practically serfdom. In fact, it's a damn good example of why it should be legal -- so shit like this doesn't happen.

Good ol' Seattle - such archaic stripping regulations that they practically force women into prostitution in order to make any money.

Comment by Greg

Greg — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:19:02 -0800

Even though I want there to be lots of legal, well-regulated (not ridiculously overconstrained as they are currently) strip clubs around, I have zero problem with the feds shutting down the Colacurcios.

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:23:10 -0800

portland is laughing at us.

if you figure dinner & drinks into the equation, it costs me more than $50 to get a handjob at home. i can't afford anal.

Comment by Vince

Vince — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:36:41 -0800

I won't say what I think because you censor SLOG.

Comment by Greg

Greg — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:19:53 -0800

@13: That's because you're a fucking troll, and fucking trolls get righteously bitch-slapped down like they damned well deserve. Fuck off.

Comment by Vince

Vince — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:56:07 -0800

@14: And you are such a darling. Light as air and sweet as sugar.