The War on Strippers: Dancers Laid Off Due To Competiton From... Internet

Now the New York Times has someone to commiserate with.

The number of strippers and strip clubs in Toronto is declining, with former dancers blaming the Internet for putting them out of work.

A 23-year-old ex-dancer identified only as Madeline told the Toronto Star she could make as much as $1,000 per night after she started working in strip clubs four years ago, but gave it up for a clothed bartending job when fewer men would pay $20 for a lap dance.

"Why would a guy go to a club and pay to sit there if he could get it all for free on his computer at home?" she asked. "The only thing we can offer the internet can't is pickpocketing, Hepatitis B, and the intoxicating scent of industrial-strength bodywash mixed with feet."

I sort of added that last line in there.

Via Conservative Belle, who covers this story I skipped: Obama's pay-off from a... ping pong magnate in exchange for earmarks in state funding.

Change, hope.

Also: Conservative Belle sends this. A 400 pound inmate sheds 100 pounds in jail and is now down to a svelte three-buck-and-change.

So he's suing. The prison doesn't feed him well enough to maintain the obesity he's grown accustomed to.

Is obesity now a right under our "Living Constitution"? Stay tuned.

I wonder if the media -- the people we trust to make decisions -- will inform us of the answer before the courts do.

posted by Ace at 04:47 PM

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