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    BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - A strip club in Boise, Idaho has found an artful way to prance past a city law that prohibits full nudity.



    On what it calls Art Club Nights, the EroticCity strip club charges customers $15 for a sketch pad, pencil, and a chance to see completely naked women dancers.

    In 2001 the Boise City Council passed an ordinance banning total nudity in public unless it had "serious artistic merit" -- an exemption meant to apply to plays, dance performances and art classes.

    "We have a lot of people drawing some very good pictures," said EroticCity owner Chris Teague, who has posted many of the drawings around the club.

    Teague said he got the idea when a customer asked if he could get in for free to sketch the dancers. Realizing that "art classes" were exempt from the law, Teague decided to bill Mondays and Tuesdays as art nights, and let the dancers go without their G-strings and pasties.

    In the two months since they began, Art Club Nights have drawn full crowds of 60 people but no police citations, he said.

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    Yup, very clever ... while it lasts ! The problem is of course that if and when the city cops decide to 'test' this creative interpretation of "serious artistic merit" applying to nude dancers on stage or in VIP rooms, it will be the dancers and not the club (probably) who will be busted and bear the legal brunt of the Boise city ordinance.

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    This sounds like what they did down in Florida at one club. So that the dancers could get completely naked, they performed Shakespeare. It was very popular.

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    Default Re: Strip Club Artfully Slips by Anti-Nudity Law

    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie
    Yup, very clever ... while it lasts ! The problem is of course that if and when the city cops decide to 'test' this creative interpretation of "serious artistic merit" applying to nude dancers on stage or in VIP rooms, it will be the dancers and not the club (probably) who will be busted and bear the legal brunt of the Boise city ordinance.
    Ohh I did not even think of that ~ I hope you are wrong Melonie, however the more I think about it, the more I think you are probably right...
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    I hope you are wrong Melonie, however the more I think about it, the more I think you are probably right...
    I hope that I'm wrong as well. However with most of these sort of ordinances which ban nudity, it is the person who chooses to actually appear nude in violation of the law that is charged. Very few of these ordinances say anything about a person who is not nude themselves, but who is profiting from the nudity of others, i.e. the club owner.

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    At the root of this is the belief that private property is no longer the domain of the owner but somehow subject to the whims of politicians and their handlers.

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    I used to drive by a bar on my way to work. The bar was called, "The Office". I always laughed when I saw the sign. I got a kick out of the idea of men telling their wives, "honey, I'm going to the office for a little bit".

    I wonder what a strip club that featured nude women for "artistic modeling" might call itself? Would guys have more luck telling their wives, "honey I'm going to "The Studio" for a bit and do some sketching"? What about the girls, would they have to be registered with the police as "artistic models" instead of strippers? Kind of gives a new meaning to the term, "artistic license" doesnt it?
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