I did a google and found this:
Salem, Oregon, To Discuss Possible Lap Dance Regulations
Monday, October 1st, 2007 The city council in Salem, OR, is planning to discuss possible new regulations on lap dances following a loss in court earlier this year. In July, Marion County judge Albin Norblad ruled that the city’s prohibitions on touching were unconstitutional per the state constitution.
The case stems from a dancer who was arrested at
Cheetah’s for engaging in prohibited touching in April of 2005 with an undercover police officer. The prohibited touching in question involved the grinding of the dancer’s pelvis into the officer’s pelvis for the purpose of arousing sexual excitement.
Salem residents are also hoping to gain support to amend the state constitution to allow for stricter regulation of strip clubs.
The
Salem city ordinance 96.300 (PDF) read as follows:
96.300. PROHIBITED TOUCHING.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to pay a fee, or to receive a fee, directly or indirectly, for touching or offering to touch the clothed or unclothed body of another for the purpose of arousing sexual excitement in himself or any other person.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to pay a fee, or to receive a fee, directly or
indirectly, for allowing another person to touch his clothed or unclothed body for the purpose of arousing sexual excitement in himself or any other person.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any principal, agent, or employee of a business to cause, permit, aid, or abet any violation of this section by any principal, agent, or employee of the business. (Ord No. 96-72; Ord No. 70-74)
Even we here at Strip Club Central are surprised that a judge found
grindage to be a constitutionally protected form of expression. But we aren’t complaining.
...so after that ruling, the club owners may have decided to loosen the rules for touching.
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