Iceland bans strip clubs.

[Martinus]

That's what you get for electing a lesbian Prime Minister.

[Viking]

good riddance... it was expensive and not very good...

[jimmy olsen]

That's what you get for electing a lesbian Prime Minister.

Wow, I'm going to assume this is intentional irony.

[Martinus]

No. Lesbians are our allies on gay rights but they are also evil. A gay guy in power would never ban straight porn or straight gogo clubs.

The worst quality about lesbians (and militant feminists in general) is that in their quest to protect women, they end up banning all kinds of porn or all kinds of sex industry services, with man-on-man stuff often being a poor collateral damage victim of their crusade.

[Viking]

Also, I find it reprehensible that with the Icelandic economy lieing in shambles they push the employees of a whole economic branch onto the streets.

The girls are imports, usually polish or baltic.

[Capetan Mihali]

Thinking about it, this is kind of an interesting counterpoint to the burqa/etc. debates; at what point does a woman's self-presentation cease being an expression of individual agency and become the expression of systemic exploitation?  And what is the state's role in identifying and legislating this distinction?

[Martinus]

Thinking about it, this is kind of an interesting counterpoint to the burqa/etc. debates; at what point does a woman's self-presentation cease being an expression of individual agency and become the expression of systemic exploitation?  And what is the state's role in identifying and legislating this distinction?

The two cases are not comparable at all, except on a purely superficial level. I sincerely doubt Icelandic girls are raised by their families who threaten to murder them if they ever stop lap dancing.

[Viking]

Thinking about it, this is kind of an interesting counterpoint to the burqa/etc. debates; at what point does a woman's self-presentation cease being an expression of individual agency and become the expression of systemic exploitation?  And what is the state's role in identifying and legislating this distinction?

The two cases are not comparable at all, except on a purely superficial level. I sincerely doubt Icelandic girls are raised by their families who threaten to murder them if they ever stop lap dancing.

The girls are imported, they are not locals.

[Zanza]

That's what you get for electing a lesbian Prime Minister.

Electing a gay foreign minister doesn't seem to be a good idea either.

[Admiral Yi]

Thinking about it, this is kind of an interesting counterpoint to the burqa/etc. debates; at what point does a woman's self-presentation cease being an expression of individual agency and become the expression of systemic exploitation?  And what is the state's role in identifying and legislating this distinction?

Systematic exploitation can exist in labor markets only in the presence of collusion to enforce that exploitation.

I suppose Iceland will have to ban modeling next, for the sake of consistency?

[The Larch]

Iceland bans strip clubs

The two of them.

[BVN]

Iceland bans strip clubs

The two of them.

Actually only one was left after a previous crackdown. No joke.

[Brazen]

Bad timing. Think how cool a disaster movie would be with a volcano erupting and the only survivors sheltering in a strip club as the molten lava slides inexorably towards them.

[Viking]

Iceland bans strip clubs

The two of them.

The other one closed down years ago.

[Viking]

Bad timing. Think how cool a disaster movie would be with a volcano erupting and the only survivors sheltering in a strip club as the molten lava slides inexorably towards them.

Volcano movies are always bad. Volcano (5.1/10), Dante's Peak (5.6/10) and Eruption (3.5/10) from 1997 alone....