Long Island Lolita a Stripper at Last

They're suing to halt new law aimed at prostitutes

(NEWSER) - Be careful how you act in Utah: If you get too “sexy,” you could find yourself arrested under a new law. The law broadens the definition of solicitation—agreeing to trade sex for money—to include “lewd acts” that imply you want to trade sex for money, like exposing or touching yourself. It was intended to help undercover law enforcement officers, who are sometimes asked by prostitutes to expose themselves in order to prove they’re not cops. Such requests are now illegal, the AP reports. More»

Or, in Joey Lawrence's case, are about to become strippers

(NEWSER) - It's no secret that heartthrob Channing Tatum used to be a stripper , but he's not the only one in Hollywood with that particular vocation on his résumé. The Frisky unveils seven more:

• Javier Bardem: He claims his stint as a stripper lasted just 10 minutes, and that his mother was in the audience. He was a struggling actor at the time, and looking for cash.
• Mark Consuelos: The soap star and husband to Kelly Ripa stripped while a student at the University of South Florida.

Ohio congregation gets a taste of its own medicine

(NEWSER) - Sunday services at one Ohio church have had an unusual feature lately: strippers frolicking in front of the building. Fed up with protests by the New Beginnings Ministries community, which employs tactics like filming clubgoers' license plates and posting them online, employees of the Foxhole have begun traveling 7 miles to the church on Sundays to mount a counterprotest. "When these morons go away, we'll go away," the club owner tells the Columbus Dispatch . More»

Governor deciding whether to sign bill

(NEWSER) - Missouri’s strip clubs are begging Gov. Jay Nixon to veto a bill that they say would cost the state thousands of scantily clad jobs. The Republican legislature has passed a law that would forbid Show Me State strippers from dancing naked or touching patrons, and would bar clubs from serving drinks or staying open past midnight. The law “was written to close us down,” says one cabaret owner. More»

Trucks roaming Sin City 'are like Pied Pipers out there on the Strip'

(NEWSER) - Even in over-the-top Sin City, the stripper-mobile is an attention-getter. The Plexiglas-walled truck roaming the Las Vegas Strip features a stripper pole—and strippers, of course, albeit ones still wearing their skivvies. It has proven an effective marketing technique for Déjà Vu Showgirls, but if county commissioners get their way, it will soon be a thing of the past, the Sun reports. More»