I've never met a country so obsessed about sex (in a negative way)

[Tab]

“In Texas, you don’t need a special permit to purchase an assault weapon. But soon, you may need one to take your clothes off,”

In 2014, nude dancers in Washington state sued their local government to prevent the release of their private information to a concerned citizen who wished to “pray for them.”

The proposed legislation, now being considered in the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee, would require dancers at strip clubs to register with the Department of State. The registry, which would be available to law enforcement, would include the names, stage names, birthdays, addresses, places of employment, phone numbers, and other personal details of strippers working in Pennsylvania. The law also would effectively ban lap dances and the sale of alcoholic beverages at strip joints, as part of the effort to protect female employees.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/06/social-conservatives-want-to-create-a-pennsylvania-stripper-registry.html

And good luck with the no alcoholic beverages at a strip joint part. Bills like this just waste everyone's time.

[randys1]

1. America is full (as are certain other countries) of immature people when it comes to

sex and Women.

[RKP5637]

2. I know, of course, there are stranger places, but the sexual obsessions in America are freaky.

It never ends, like sex really doesn't exist. It all just gets so damn weird. And, the preying eyes of government into personal aspects of one life. And this proposed law. It just gets damn chilling. It is a sexually immature nation IMO.

[NorthCarolinaL]

3. Dancers registering with agencies

and the police. What could possibly go wrong?

Freedumb.

[Nye Bevan]

4. How about countries where unmarried women cannot go out in public with a non-family member?

Or countries where women are stoned to death for committing adultery?

Or countries where men found to engage in homosexuality are executed?

[onenote]

9. +1

Or countries where nude dancing is banned (e.g., Iceland).

[MicaelS]

5. America is the largest producer and consumer of pornography in the world.

In most of the rest of the modern world women go topless at the beach and there are nude beaches for couples and families. In America a woman who went topless at most beaches would be arrested. Women AND men would be arrested for going nude. If parents exposed their children to nudity they would be prosecuted for child abuse, and people on the Right and the Left would cheer on the parents being prosecuted.

Playboy magazine got started in America 61 years ago by Hugh Hefner and he made millions of dollars, predicated on the simple idea of showing women's bare breasts and buttocks. Numerous imitators followed.

In America strip clubs are everywhere making millions of dollars in taxes and fees for governments. Yet, prostitution is illegal, and both prostitute and customers are arrested and prosecuted. The exception is a few counties in Nevada where female prostitution is legal. So the message America gives in it's OK to look and leer, but don't touch, don't actually do anything.

In America sex is used to sell everything in the Media, yet even mild portrayals of real human sexuality in the Media bring harsh reactions.

In America the exposure of a female nipple on broadcast TV is forbidden and can bring national controversy and serious legal consequences for the broadcaster. In most of the rest of the modern world exposed female nipples are seen regularly on broadcast TV.

If an oppressive world-wide Patriarchy were the problem, we would see the same sort of aberrations in the rest of the world we see in America. We don't see this. In fact, the only places where similar actions take place to Americas are those nations with either authoritarian political regimes or authoritarian religious regimes.

The real problem is right here in America. We have a repressive belief system. Based on an archaic belief system. A system that states that the human body, human sexuality, in fact almost ANYTHING dealing with human physical pleasure, is dirty and filthy and should be hidden or tightly regulated or simply prohibited. And there are Prohibitionists on the Left just as bad as those on the Right.

This country is chock full of prudes.

[procon]

6. This is the Church Lady's fantasy.

If religious groups convince enough people to follow their wacky creeds, then there's always some greedy, dishonest lawmakers standing by to pass laws that will force their craziness on everyone else. Now they want to regulate the adult-entertainment business and we're supposed to believe that they only want to protect women... like they do when we choose to have an abortion, or marry some we love of the same sex. Cuz were too stupid to make our own decisions, and nothing makes a woman feel safer than giving out her personal info or having the Church Ladies shame us.

[RiverLover]

10. I'm sorry but until this week when DU went all crazy for legal harems, I've never thought

much about it.

And it certainly isn't a "liberal" stance. This is what they do in the middle east, no? Are sheiks liberals??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates

[MisterP]

11. since when do you need someone's address to pray for them?

[Arugula Latte]

12. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Too bad all the Puritans' ships didn't sink mid-voyage.

Those dour religious freaks have been effing us all over ever since the early 1600s.

[Tatiana La Belle]

13. Are we sure the government officials aren't looking for a little legal voyarism here?

All that info to law enforcement just to dance?

[Kurska]

14. Why can't we just be obsessed in the good way?

Seriously.

[GreatGazoo]

15. the politics of optimism seem to have died with JFK. Now we have politicians

who claim they will protect us from boogie men (or boogie women in this case) of all kinds.