# Strip club opens in former school building **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strip-club-opens-in-former-school-building/540148 "2010-05-20T17:22:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strip-club-opens-in-former-school-building/540148/21 "2010-05-20T20:18:59Z")
I dunno, if they’d painted the building and called it Bob’s House o’ Hooters, that’d be one thing, but calling it The Schoolhouse, deliberately trading on the buildings history, opens them up to more criticism, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strip-club-opens-in-former-school-building/540148/22 "2010-05-20T20:20:58Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > “It bothers us — we put all five of our children through here.” So the fuck what? It’s just a building. The kids aren’t still in there, are they?? Yeah, that’s pretty funny. But I wouldn’t expect a more enlightened response from people who think that a strip club is a whorehouse. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strip-club-opens-in-former-school-building/540148/23 "2010-05-20T20:37:18Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > While I’m sure there are a few trashy places where the private lap dances have happy endings, that is not necessarily true and I would say, _usually_ not. Especially in a smaller town like this one… I would think the local vice cops would be monitoring the place closely for adherence to statutes and code enforcement would also be keeping an eye on the place. I think there is no reason to feel unsafe around a strip club and where the hell are the men supposed to go for their bachelor parties anyway? > > As usual, I blame the Puritans for this crap. I love how guns, violence, drugs, and rednecks are all tolerated with vapid smiles, but dog forbid anyone see a boob or get turned on by a beautiful woman dancing on a stage. “Captain, the sarcasmometer is detecting something, but it’s far too subtle to get a lock on direction.” ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strip-club-opens-in-former-school-building/540148/24 "2010-05-20T21:07:47Z")
I’ve become convinced of late that the Puritans are being unfairly blamed for this kind of silliness. The legacy of the Puritans isn’t really responsible for the fundamentalist, prohibition-mongering conservatism that people in this thread are (properly) lambasting. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strip-club-opens-in-former-school-building/540148/25 "2010-05-20T21:44:55Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Yeah, that’s pretty funny. But I wouldn’t expect a more enlightened response from people who think that a strip club is a whorehouse. Maybe I went to the sleazy places mentioned above, but I have been in strip clubs across this fair land of ours, and I can say that Every Single One offered prostitution services. Not every dancer, not every sex act, and some places were far worse than others, but the drugs and prostitution were well known at these places. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@Mister\_Owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Owl)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strip-club-opens-in-former-school-building/540148/26 "2010-05-21T03:39:46Z")
> [@jtgain](#): > > Maybe I went to the sleazy places mentioned above, but I have been in strip clubs across this fair land of ours, and I can say that Every Single One offered prostitution services. Not every dancer, not every sex act, and some places were far worse than others, but the drugs and prostitution were well known at these places. Exact locations please. I am lonely. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strip-club-opens-in-former-school-building/540148/27 "2010-05-21T07:22:38Z")
I think I understand them being upset. I’m not saying I agree, but I think I get it. For some reason, this school has a lot of nostalgic overtones for people, and they’d rather see it torn down than used for a type of business they don’t support. They also hate that it employs out-of-towners, probably because of small town pride, but maybe also because there are legitimate job losses that, if the school were converted to another type of business, might actually get jobs. But the one I think is most likely is this odd type of squick some people have for schoolhouse fantasy. I could see someone thinking it was a way to indulge in in pedophilia. People on this board have equated anime with pedophilia, so such lack of understanding of fantasy versus reality makes sense. It’s the same argument that says that porn causes sexual deviance, rather than providing an outlet for it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strip-club-opens-in-former-school-building/540148.md?page=1)