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Ordinance 17.31 - Lap Dance Ordinance
Chris Rohloff
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Dear City Council Members.
It has come to my attention that tomorrow evening you plan to vote on repealing City Ordinance
(municipal code section 17.31) called the "Lap Dance" ordinance.
I understand that this is being considered because of a recent court decision involving a employee at
"Dangerous Curves" who was accused of violating the ordinance.
Municipal code section 17.31, as currently stated, ALLOWS 'lap dances' within 'adult entertainment
business' and provides guidelines, in part, for the protection, health and safety of all involved in the "lap
dance".
The above mentioned court case was not about the lap dance,but the violations of the guidelines which
required dancers to be protected during these dances and not fully "nude or so attired as to leave exposed
the entertainer's genitals, or pubic hair, or anus, or buttocks, or female breast, or female breast with only
the nipple covered."
Repealing this ordinance only allows more exposure during the already legal lap dances. If you repeal this
ordinance then you will not have more "safe" lap dances in Ames,you will have more "unsafe" lap dances
in Ames. If you repeal this ordinance then you will be leaving the women involved in this business even
less protected.
Protect those who work at'adult entertainment business' and DO NOT repeal municipal code section
17.31.
Chris Rohloff
205 E. O'Neil Dr.
Ames IA 50010
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