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My belief: Typically, as grounds for porn laws and adult establishment regulations, localities and government programs have used “studies” showing so-called adverse effects that are scientifically flawed and can be challenged in argument, point by point. So, yeah — I’m bringin’ it: the last issue of American Ethnography Quasimonthly is actually called Hoochy Coochy Dancing and Fantasy Love, and presents some really incredible, quite serious academic papers on the real effects of strip clubs on culture, society, individuals and communities, such as their lede explains:
“WHY ARE YOU, with your impeccable credentials, studying nude dancing?” The question was asked by newspaper reporters to anthropologist, educator, writer and dance critic Judith Lynne Hanna when she did her field work on striptease clubs (also called exotic dance cabarets or gentlemen’s clubs). “I am an anthropologist,” Hanna bluntly explained. “Anthropologists study human behavior.” Hanna has been an expert court witness in cases related to freedom of speech and exotic dance in the United States, and in “Ethnography Challenges False Mythology” she analyzes how localities try to regulate striptease clubs out of business. We are proud to say that Hanna is co-editing this issue of American Ethnography, in which we have gathered a handful of, dare we say, “sin-sational” stuff. Take a look… (…read all, americanethnography.com, via antropologi)
