Normally, the news stories
are straight journalism written in fairly objective language.
It is not our intention to include links to actual adult material
or to the adult entertainment press.
However, sometimes a link
may inadvertently appear which is completely inappropriate for
a general audience. They may cover aspects of strip clubs and
sexual situations more extreme than the cautious articles on
this web site.
Discretion is advised. If
you are easily offended, you should look carefully at a headline
and its source before bringing up an item.
Well known search engines
select the material. Please realize that The
Vasthead has no control over the specific items selected
and does not review the links before they appear.
Many of these searches are
based on the term "strip club." That seems to be the
phrase journalists favor for news stories about topless bars,
nude bars, and "sexually oriented" cabaret clubs of
all kinds.
This news display supplements
the Houston
Topless Dancer Survey, a 1997
research project which has been on line since 1998. The news
items provide some current perspective on community battles
against strip clubs and problems connected to the clubs in various
places.
Sometimes items appear about
club regulatory battles around the nation. Those items can be
very relevant to the Houston
Topless Dancer Survey.
However, most of the strip
club news is only loosely related to the material on this site.
In some cases, a search engine will misfire and bring up a story
completely unrelated to topless bars, nude bars, or sexually
oriented businesses.
For example, you might see
an article that is about a paint stripper instead of the kind
of stripper who performs in bars. You might even see a story
about an Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip; you are unlikely
to see a story about a strip club in the Gaza Strip.
Sometimes a single event
making the national news (such as one involving a celebrity
or major gunplay or both) will dominate the list of strip club
news stories. That tends to crowd out news which would be more
relevant to local cabaret club regulatory battles. If you are
doing research on city and state strip club regulation, we suggest
that you monitor these stories for several weeks or months.
