Would you ever vote for a strip club owner for higher office?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yes, just like the Freedom Fighters of some ward in Albert Lea, Minnesota did.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No, they enable sleaze.

Fake Libertarian.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Only if he lived in the suburbs, had an Emo haircut and considered There Will Be Blood to be one of the greatest movies of all time.

Otherwise, no.

Considering how much I hate the former two and strongly agree with the last one, I'm not sure what point you were trying to make.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Owners of strip clubs make used car salesmen and lawyers look good.  Still, I'd be willing to get past it and vote for him/her, but he/she'd have to be really good to over come this one.  All else being equal I'd rather vote for a pot dealing cop.

You really are quite the prude, aren't you?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You can personally not care for strip clubs and still not demonize the people who own/work at them. I mean read all that I say about marijuana, then consider I hardly ever use it (only if some people have a bunch at a party and it's being passed around, that sort of thing.)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Aren't you in favor of legalizing prostitution? I don't disagree but seems like an odd double standard.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You can personally not care for strip clubs and still not demonize the people who own/work at them.

I've got nothing against any individual worker/owner of a strip club.  As a group though, they each tend to have some very basic traits that are pretty common.  And I empathize with the workers, I certainly don't mean to demonize them.  Having "daddy issues", drug problems, a funked up view of sex and a severely short career window isn't something I'd wish on any normal person.  (and no, I'm not saying 100% of them are like this, obviously not.  But like I said in the other thread, "stereotyping is fun!".)

Of the ones I've met, the third is the only one arguably common, possibly the fourth, but I've met enough strippers over 38 to say that enough of them have a career window of around 20 years, not severely short.

The owners on the other hand....

What's wrong with them?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It's amusing how this forum seems to be more moralistic here than the very religious population of Albert Lea, MN.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

A woman owns my favorite strip club.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

A woman owns my favorite strip club.

A lesbian?

No she's married. From what I've heard something like this happened: She bartended at the club when it was just a bar but the bar didn't do very well so it had to close. She offered to buy it from the old owner and he sold her it. But she knew that just opening another bar there wouldn't be successful (it's a very small town and already has another bar which won out in competition) so she reopened it as a non-alcoholic strip club instead. And it's been a success.