Detroit Strip Clubs: News of the Weird
September 10, 2009 at 5:24 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No Comments…
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At press time, Rhode Island legislators were scrambling to fix an oversight in state law that came to light only earlier this year. While the state treats 16 as the age of sexual consent and the age at which most child labor laws no longer apply, the under-18 sex-worker law bans only “prostitution” and “lewd” activities, leaving girls age 16 and 17 free to work as strippers. (Nudity, by itself, is not “lewd” under constitutional law.) Other Rhode Island laws bar under-18s from, for example, serving drinks, working with power tools or buying pornography. (The city of Providence is also now trying to fix its own ordinance in which prostitution appears to be illegal only for streetwalkers, thus legalizing the trade for those working indoors.)
See the full article from “Metro Spirit”
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