I’ve read the statistic as having more adult businesses per capita than any other city. I can see that being plausibly true as we have at least 20 porn shoppes, two porno theaters, at least two swingers clubs, oh and then there’s the hookers on 82nd Ave. 
Not much of a city then, is it?
Hey, if you add all of that stuff in then you put Tampa back in the running. Especially depending on how you define Tampa.
When did Portland become a strip club center? The last time I was there I didn’t notice this, although it has been about 14 years. Is this a fairly recent phenomenon? We’ve always had a lot of adult businesses here because of the large number of annual visitors, tourists, retirees and horny Canadians.
In defense of East St. Louis (and there’s not much to defend, so I guess I should speak up) most of those strip clubs aren’t in East St. Louis, but in even tinier towns in the area: Washington Park, Madison, Sauget, Brooklyn, etc. Brooklyn, for example, has 676 people so even one strip club within the city limits makes a huge ratio.
East St. Louis has a lot of after-hours clubs, but they’re mostly clothes-on establishments.
That of course is the evening population. During the day the population is 10s of thousands more due to people at work in the various industries located in, wait for it,
The City of Industry.
Stateline, Idaho
Strip Clubs: 1
Population: 28
I was told that Springfield Oregon had the highest. I never bothered to confirm it, but it was quite a meme living in Eugene. I never ventured into Springfield, but there were certainly plenty in Eugene and Springfield was the seedier part of town.
You beat me to it, although I wasn’t sure the town even existed anymore.
The only raison d’etre for State Line was that 1) the drinking age in Washington was 21, 2) the drinking age in Idaho was 19 and 3) State Line was the closest point in Idaho to Spokane (about 30 miles away). As such, the place had at least 3 and maybe more drinking establishments and a population of 22 (this was back in the 70s).[sup]1[/sup]
But now all states have a drinking age of 21, so State Line has no real reason to exist, or at least the bars there don’t. Unless there’s something about being a strip club that keeps it going. Perhaps there are none in Spokane or perhaps they don’t allow drinking in the Spokane clubs.
[sup]1[/sup] A similar situation obtained in Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Washington. These are two similarly-sized college towns some 8 miles apart. In that era, Moscow had roughly 30 bars and taverns while Pullman had about 3. However, unlike State Line, there were no strip clubs in Moscow.
This thread reminded me that I had not supported our local dancers in a while, so I checked a strip club by my house this afternoon. As a particularly attractive dancer was wagging her booty another patron turned to me and said: “That’s what I’m talkin’ about. She’s the kind you kidnap and keep for 6 weeks”. :eek:
^^^ Nice!
Well, we may not have the most per capita of sex based businesses but we definitely have it nailed for eclecticism. How many other towns can boast of a strip club that serves its own beef, grown on the owner’s ranch (Acropolis,) or a completely vegan menu (Casa Diablo,) or tanks of piranhas that customers can feed with purchased onsite goldfish (Safari Club?) Plus, we have the Suicide Girls, who just rock, and Mary’s has been in business over fifty years–family owned, passed down from father to daughter. Gotta love that better-than-the-federal-version free speech clause in our state constitution!