Chicago Strip Clubs: Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon: Strip clubs should fund rape crisis centers

Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon: Strip clubs should fund rape crisis centers
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Illinois is home to more than 100 strip clubs, and many serve or permit alcohol on their premises. Women who dance in strip clubs report a range of verbal, physical and sexual abuse at the workplace. Research also links strip clubs to trafficking, prostitution and an increase in male sexual violence against both the women who work in the clubs and those who live and work in the surrounding areas.
Lynne Johnson, director of policy and advocacy for the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation — a non-profit that addresses the culture, institutions, and individuals that perpetrate, profit from or support sexual exploitation — said: “Strip clubs can increase the demand for other sexual services in a community. When more men are seeking to buy sex, pimps report to researchers that they meet the demand by bringing prostituted women and girls to the area.”

See the full article from “The Rock River Times”