GERMANY - Kid Gets Strippers For His Birthday Party

We believe that is German at the end of the video. If this were done in the USA, the parents and the strippers would probably now be in prison and eventually on the sex offender registry for life. They never say how old the kid is, he could be of legal age.

NO NUDITY!

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OH - State rep (Robert Mecklenborg) caught driving drunk with stripper quits legislature

Robert Mecklenborg

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So, will he be on the state sex offender registry?

07/17/2011

By Darrel Rowland

An embattled Cincinnati-area state representative quit this afternoon, caught up in controversy after being arrested for drunken driving in Indiana with a stripper in his car and Viagra in his system.

By making his resignation effective Aug. 2, Robert Mecklenborg, R-Green Township, ensured himself that he will be paid for all of July; if he had quit this month his legislative salary would have been pro-rated.

"My recent actions have become a distraction to the additional important work that lies ahead for the members of the 129th General Assembly. Therefore, it is with a heavy heart that I resign from the Ohio House of Representatives," he said in a statement today.

"Most importantly, I want to sincerely apologize for any pain and embarrassment I have caused my family, my constituents, and my colleagues. I will be forever grateful to the many constituents and colleagues who have urged me to stay, but I believe it is in the best interests of my family and my constituents to step aside during this difficult time."

His resignation letter to House Speaker William G. Batchelder, R-Medina, was a mere two sentences.

Batchelder, who indicated late last week that the resignation was only a matter of time, said in a statement, "Bob has admitted his mistakes and, while difficult, I believe he has made the appropriate decision to step down as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives."

The House's No. 2 GOP leader, Lou Blessing of Cincinnati, said in the same statement: "As a friend and fellow member from Hamilton County, I believe Bob Mecklenborg has provided valuable insight on a number of legislative issues over the years. His service will be missed but I am pleased that he has appropriately decided to put the interests of his family and constituents first by stepping down from the Ohio House."

Mecklenborg was chairman of the House State Government and Elections Committee and sponsored a controversial bill that would require Ohioans to provided a photo ID before being allowed to vote. He also belonged to the Judiciary and Ethics Committee.

The latest blow against the GOP representative came last week when it was learned that four days after he was charged with DUI, Mecklenborg signed a driver's-license application in Ohio saying that he did not have any outstanding vehicle citations. Mecklenborg, 59, had an expired driver's license when he was pulled over by an Indiana state trooper April 23.

A three-term legislator who did not attend last week's House session, has pleaded not guilty to DUI and is scheduled to appear in court July 26. A dashboard camera video showed him repeatedly telling the trooper that he had not had anything to drink, even as he failed three field sobriety tests.

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Video Game's 'Capture the Babe' Mode Has Players Slapping Women

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03/26/2011

By Jeremy A. Kaplan & Patrick Manning

A new videogame that requires you to abduct women and give them a "reassuring slap" if they freak out has gamers and women's rights-groups crying foul.

Brace yourself for the awfully sexist world of Duke Nukem Forever.

The game's 1996 precursor Duke Nukem 3D -- which sold 3.5 million copies, made millions for its developers and transformed the entire world of video games -- depicted women as strippers and prostitutes. The new iteration of the game, set for release this spring, takes sexism to a new level -- starting with Duke receiving implied oral sex from twins in school uniforms.

"It was offensive then and it's even more offensive now," Jamia Wilson, vice president of the Women's Media Center, told FoxNews.com. "These depictions of women are extremely harmful, especially to young women," she added.

Duke Ferris, editor-in-chief at gamehelper.com, said sexism is an intentional part of Duke Nukem Forever. “The game is meant to objectify women -- that's the point,” he said.

Gearbox Studios bought the rights to the game last year, following 15 years of delays and disappointments that made the Duke a running joke among gamers. They described an especially controversial multiplayer mode called "Capture the Babe" in an interview with the Official Xbox Magazine.

The magazine described it as "more goofy than offensive."

"The 'Babe' will sometimes freak out while you're carrying her (somewhat understandably we'd say), at which point you have to hit a button to gently give her a reassuring slap," the magazine wrote.

The Entertainment Software Rating Board labels all video games as a guide for parents (E for Everyone, T for Teen). It described some of the sequences gamers will encounter: "A couple of missions within this level require players to recover sex toys and pictures of topless women. A few sequences strongly imply sexual acts: Two women appear to perform fellatio on the central character," reads one passage.

“Our job is to provide consumers with information and guidance that helps them choose games they deem suitable for themselves and their families," Eliot Mizrachi, a spokesman for the group, told FoxNews.com.

The game will be available in stores and online, where customers must click a button stating they are 17 years of age or older -- the only barrier to children buying such a game.

The ESRB argues that its ratings effectively allow consumers to self-police: If you find that sort of thing offensive, simply don't let your kids buy the game.

"This game carries a Mature rating indicating that it’s intended for ages 17 and up, and retailers overwhelmingly enforce their store policies requiring that M-rated games not be sold to a customer under that age without a parent’s consent,” Mizrachi said.

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford defended the Capture the Babe mode in an interview published in Xbox Magazine.

"Our goal isn't to shock people, but I think there's some stuff that'll be just a bit uncomfortable," he said. "We try to get right up to that edge and then relax enough so people don't reject it."

They may have crossed the line this time.

Following the what-were-they-thinking response shared across the gaming community, Gearbox announced Thursday yet another delay to the overdue game's release. Duke Nukem Forever, which had been slated for release May 3, is now scheduled for June 14.

The company did not say whether the delay was related to the controversy.


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NV - Brakes put on the "Stripper Mobile" (Sex sells!)

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11/14/2009

By Maria Silva

Strippers in a box on the Las Vegas Strip. The mobile advertisement got plenty of local and national attention this week. It also grabbed the attention of our county commissioners. Now it appears the Stripper Mobile may be a thing of the past.

Effective Friday, the live entertainment display is no longer be in operation.

The marketing ploy was designed to attract new customers to the Déjà Vu and Little Darlings strip clubs. It was a plan marketing and advertising director for the clubs, Larry Beard, told us was good for business.

"We've seen quite a bit of extra business in the club. The crowd out on (the Strip) seems to love it - tourists clap and cheer."

But not everyone was clapping and cheering. Aside from the partially nude women on a stripper pole, there was a bigger issue: safety on the Las Vegas Strip.

"Someone can turn for a brief second, swerve their car, drive up on the side walk and injure or kill a pedestrian," Commissioner Steve Sisolak said.

Sisolak says he got plenty of calls from those opposed the mobile advertisement and those in favor.

"Most of them (in favor) were young college kind of guys."

Early Friday afternoon, Sisolak says he got a call from the attorney representing the club owners.

"The attorney, Mr. Brown, gave me his word that it's been officially decommissioned and will not be traveling up and down Las Vegas Boulevard, which I'm thrilled with."

The Stripper Mobile issue may be settled for now, but the bigger picture will still go before the County Commission on Tuesday.

"I still want to clarify our code so that it won't come up again," Sisolak said. "Somebody else won't come up with the same idea similar idea."

Commissioners are not the only ones glad the brakes have been put on the Stripper Mobile.
Marla Letizia, president and CEO of Big Traffic Mobile Billboards, who in the past has been vocal about these type of advertisements, says Metro should have shut down the rolling strippers last week.

Letizia says they violated traffic laws and the owners just wanted publicity.

The attorney for the owners also tell News 3 his clients agreed it was a safety issue and didn't put up a fight.

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"The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of a civilization. We must have a desire to rehabilitate into the world of industry, all those who have paid their dues in the hard coinage of punishment." - Winston Churchill (United States Constitution, Bill of Rights)

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FL - Attacked by Stripper's Grandma, Garden Tool (More Media Vigilantism)

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08/25/2009

By TODD WRIGHT

Camera crews kept rolling while being chased by an angry grandma

Sometimes you get what you ask for, but in this case a Florida reporter and her crew got more than they bargained for Tuesday when they started asking questions about a local stripper.

The Brevard County television news crew was trying to get the scoop on how a 15-year-old girl wound up shaking her teen-aged booty for cash in a local club when they were attacked by an upset grandma not ready to hear that her grandbaby had taken a walk on the wild side.

Her weapon of choice: a garden hoe.

The woman cursed and swung the hoe violently at the intruders, striking the camera and sending the rest of the crew scrambling for cover. The camera man who was hit kept the camera rolling and captured the brutal assault.

This all started after the teen's mom called police Friday after getting a tip that her daughter may have been hitting the stripper pole when she was supposed to be hitting the books. The cops raided the strip club, named Playmates, and found the teen and another young girl, said to be 17.

The 15-year-old told police that she thought stripping was a great way to make cash. It's also a great way to get grandma's blood pressure up.

None of the reporters or camera crew were injured in the attack, but learned a tried and true lesson in journalism.

If you ask questions about a stripper, don't be surprised if you get hit by a hoe.

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"The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of a civilization. We must have a desire to rehabilitate into the world of industry, all those who have paid their dues in the hard coinage of punishment." - Winston Churchill (United States Constitution)

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GA - Ga. lawmakers propose fee for strip-club patrons

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01/29/2009

By SHANNON McCAFFREY - Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA -- A bipartisan group of Georgia lawmakers wants to slap a new fee on strip club patrons to help fund rehabilitation programs for child prostitutes and sex abuse victims.

The fee - which some have dubbed a "pole tax" - would be between $3 and $5 for each customer at the 45 clubs around the state. State Sen. Renee Unterman (Email) said Thursday there are links between the adult entertainment industry and the underground world of child prostitution.
- So instead of making the strip joints pay the fines and taxes, you want to make the patrons?

"This is the industry that creates the problem. They're financing what they created," the Republican from Buford said.
- So go after the industry, not the people going to the places.  Yes, we have a bunch of idiots running this state!

State Sen. Jack Murphy (Email) said he'll introduce the bill next week. It's unclear how much revenue it would raise.

"As a conservative, I'm not for any tax increase," the Cumming Republican said.

Still, he said rehabilitation centers for teen prostitutes will do more good than youth detentions centers that treat them as criminals.

Gov. Sonny Perdue initially proposed cutting about $500,000 in state money for the Georgia Regional Assessment Center, a therapy program for former child prostitutes. He has put the money back for now to keep the center, which is scrambling to secure longer-term funding.

But Unterman said the state is already paying for the problem through Medicaid for health and mental health problems as well as through the Department of Juvenile Justice that funds incarcerating youth.

There was no immediate comment from Perdue's office on the proposal. Republican legislative leaders have expressed reluctance to impose any new taxes to fill the state's $2.2 billion budget hole.

Strip clubs say the fee would be damaging to their business, which is already suffering in the difficult economy. They argue it would impact not just club owners and dancers but the waitresses, food workers and parking attendants who depend on the clubs for their livelihood.

Georgia's suggested fee is similar to a $5-per-customer strip club fee in 2008 that was declared unconstitutional by a state district judge. Judge Scott Jenkins wrote that the Texas fee, "while furthering laudable goals," violates the First Amendment and declared it invalid.

But backers of the proposal in Georgia said the state had addressed the constitutional concerns by funneling the money raised by the fee into a victims' right fund with the specific intent of using it for sex abuse programs.

The proposal came from a legislative study committee that met last year to look at the growing problem of child prostitution. The group estimates that between 200 to 300 children are sexually exploited in Georgia every month.
- So go after the people exploiting the children!  Also, where is the study to show these "facts?"

Lawmakers in the group also introduced legislation on Thursday that would raise the minimum age for exotic dancers from 18 to 21. Another bill would expand the definition of child abuse to include any person who allows a child to engage in prostitution.

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IA - Iowa Case Raises Question: Is Stripping an Art?

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Just like art and beauty, it's in the eye of the beholder.



07/27/2008





Future of Iowa nude dancing clubs hangs on answer to question: Is stripping an art?



Iowa doesn't have any all-nude strip clubs — but it does have performing arts centers where women dance naked.



However, the loophole in the state's public indecent exposure law that allows nude dancing at "art centers" is under attack in the small community of Hamburg, a town of 1,200 just across the Missouri River from Nebraska.



The case pending before a Fremont County judge effects only one business in Hamburg, but if he agrees with the prosecutor, it could eventually threaten the legal standing of nude dancing clubs across the state.



District Judge Timothy O'Grady heard arguments in a one-day trial on July 17 and took the case under advisement.



It all began on July 21, 2007, when a 17-year-old niece of Sheriff Steven MacDonald climbed up on stage at Shotgun Geniez in Hamburg and stripped off her clothing. Owner Clarence Judy was charged with violating Iowa's public indecent exposure law.

- I thought all strippers had to be 18 and older?  If that is true, then yeah, they broke a law.



Judy responded that the law doesn't apply to a "theater, concert hall, art center, museum, or similar establishments" devoted to the arts or theatrical performances.



"Dance has been considered one of the arts, as is sculpture, painting and anything else like that. What Clarence has is a club where people can come and perform," said his lawyer, Michael Murphy.

- Well, I personally do not think it's art.  If they label this as performing arts, then just about anything can be called art.



Murphy noted that the club has a gallery selling collectible posters and other art, and it provides patrons with sketch pads.



Nonsense, said Fremont County Attorney Margaret Johnson, an underage girl danced naked at the club, and that's illegal.

- Like I said above, if they are required to be 18, then year, it's illegal.  If they allow a 17 year old to do this, then what is next?  A 16, 15, 14, 13 year old?



"Are you saying that minors can't be protected? Can a group of 12-year-olds come down and go in and dance nude and it's OK? I don't think that's what the Legislature had in mind when it made those additional provisions," Johnson said.

- That is why when they make laws, they need to clarify everything, so it doesn't leave people guessing.



Johnson said the intent of the law is to allow movies in a theater where there's brief nudity or for an art gallery displaying paintings of nudes.



Murphy said Judy bans anyone under 18 from entering the five-year-old business. The problem, he said, was "a group of girls snuck in a 17-year-old."

- Oh come on.  Did the bouncer at the door check the girls ID?  She either had a fake ID, or someone did not do their job!



"While she was there, she felt like dancing so she got up and danced on the stage and then she took her clothes off. Trouble with that is she's the sheriff's niece," he said.



Johnson denied that the teen's relation to the sheriff was connected to the charges filed against Judy.



Her parents were absolutely appalled with the situation," Johnson said.



The sheriff declined to comment. There was no comment from his niece, whose name wasn't given.



As part of his defense during trial, Murphy cited a 1998 ruling that found nude dancing is a form of art. In that case, the owner of the Southern Comfort Free Threatre for the Performing Arts in Davenport was charged under the public indecent exposure law for allowing nude dancing. A judge found owner not guilty.



The current case deals only with Judy and Shotgun Geniez, but there could be an appeal if either side loses.



Johnson said that would take it to the Iowa Court of Appeals and perhaps the Iowa Supreme Court. That would make it a statewide case that could affect dozens of other clubs in the state.

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