
Originally Posted by
bunny8558
The second article states that he supports a magnetic strip to cover the name from customers, which I guess is kind of somewhat considerate coming from a political zealot like Zedler. Additionally, he's considered a loon, and after all the hoopla and legal costs involved in creating (and losing) the $5 door fee a few years ago, I seriously doubt the state will get embroiled in strip clubs in this way again.
However, as a Houston dancer, I totally understand ANY politician's concern for sex trafficking. Trying to fix it on the dancer side by getting our info won't help much, I'm afraid. All the cantinas with forced sex slaves from other countries, pimps taking girls (some underage)and traveling all over the country to control them, and dangerous pimps treating women as a commodity to be protected like the drug trade (with turfs, vendettas, threats of violence on non-pimp girls, pressure on management, etc.) all give reason to change something here... and THESE situations actually made the extras/contact here in the city expected and cheap. Legit dancers competing with this have a harder time making money just dancing-- what guy wants $100 in dances when he can go take advantage of a woman in a cantina for $50 OR get serviced by a pimped-out girl in a club for $100 or less? I had a customer from out-of-state tell me last week that there's just too much sex going on here in Houston, and the attitude that all the men have to it here is nothing short of bizarre.
I really hope that SOMEONE comes up with a solution here, whether it be state-wide or just the city/county. I doubt that Zedler really wants to fix this and is just using sex trafficking as an excuse for his typical anti-female sexuality, but it is nice that he at least mentions it.
Bookmarks