Chicago Strip Clubs: Illinois Proposes $5 ‘Skin Tax’ for Strip Clubs

Illinois Proposes $5 ‘Skin Tax’ for Strip Clubs
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Anthropologist Katherine Frank said one can’t single out strip clubs as promoting women’s objectification. She said attempts to link violence against women directly to visiting strip clubs or viewing pornography would be “far too simplistic.”
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“We’re not saying strip clubs are to be abolished or saying men who go to strip clubs are rapists, but we know strip clubs perpetuate that women’s bodies are for sale,” Poskin said.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed a $5 “pole tax” law in 2007, which also collects $5 from alcohol-serving strip clubs for each customer that enters the club in order to fund sexual assault prevention programs. A strip club owner in Texas and the Texas Entertainment Association sued the state attorney general and comptroller over the tax, saying it restricted free speech. But the Texas Supreme Court ruled in August 2011 that the fee was constitutional and was only a “minimal restriction.”

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