In the vein of the popular strip clubs, be warned...new ruling is available. I don't know how this will affect some of your favorite "dining establishments".

www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=31972

Portland area clubs take sex show ruling, run with it Some welcome court decision; others fear effect on prostitution By JIM REDDEN     Issue date: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 The Tribune    Workers at Mr. Peep’s spent much of Thursday afternoon cleaning out several small rooms in the back of the one-story adult book and movie store in Southeast Portland. By Saturday, the rooms were being used by young women to take off their clothes and touch themselves in a suggestive manner in front of paying customers.   Such so-called private shows have been banned in the state for much of the past three years because of an Oregon Court of Appeals ruling that declared them illegal. But the state Supreme Court reversed significant portions of the ruling Thursday, arguing that the Oregon Constitution protects such performances as free speech.   Mr. Peep’s owner Paul Dionne expects demand for the private shows to be high. Before the appeals court ruling, he offered them for years at his Portland and Aloha stores, both called Mr. Peep’s. Customers chose acts for the women to perform from a menu that included performances with various sex toys. Charges begin with a $15 fee and an additional $5 for every five minutes of the show.   “We don’t even need to advertise the shows are back. The news is spreading by word of mouth,” said Dionne, who calls the rooms “fantasy booths” and the women “showgirls.”   Zoe, a performer who manages the booths at both of Dionne’s stores, agrees.   “We have loyal customers who have been waiting years for us to resume the shows,” said Zoe, who describes herself as a second-generation stripper who appreciates the safety of performing behind the glass dividers in the rooms.   In Beaverton, Randy Kaiser, owner of the Stars Cabaret nude dance club, does not think the new ruling will affect his business much. After the appeals court ruling came out, Kaiser directed his dancers not to touch their private parts for fear of violating the law. Now Kaiser plans to ease the restrictions slightly.   “I think we can stop going into a tizzy if they touch their breasts,” he said.   Portland police Capt. Mike Reese takes a dimmer view of the ruling. Reese, the head of the bureau’s Drugs and Vice Division, thinks the ruling makes it harder to enforce anti-prostitution laws.   “There have always been adult businesses that work every loophole in the law to promote prostitution, and this will just make it harder to catch them,” Reese said.   Patricia Barrera, community education director of the Portland prostitution recovery organization Lola Green Baldwin Foundation, denounced the ruling.   “It’s shocking that the Supreme Court failed to take a leadership role and regulate the sex industry. This is not free expression — it’s access to the bodies of women and children,” Barrera said.   The different reactions reveal the uncertainty about how the ruling will affect the adult-entertainment businesses in the Portland area, which reportedly has, per capita, more nude dance clubs, lingerie modeling studios, and X-rated book and movie stores than most, if not all other, U.S. cities.   If Dionne is right, the ruling could spark an increase is such businesses across the region. If Kaiser is right, the changes could be relatively minor and limited to the smaller businesses. At any rate, law enforcement agencies must determine whether any sexual activities now are illegal in the region’s adult industry.     Rulings strike down two laws     The Oregon Supreme Court issued two rulings Thursday that struck down a state law that makes it a crime to, among other things, “direct, manage, finance or present” a “live public show” in which the participants engage in “sexual conduct.”   One ruling overturned the conviction of a Roseburg adult business owner who offered private sex shows to paying customers. The other ruling invalidated a city of Nyssa ordinance requiring nude dancers to stay at least four feet away from customers.   Writing for the majority of the court, state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gillette said the law violates the state’s constitutional free speech guarantees, saying it “appears to us to be beyond reasonable dispute that the protection extends to the kinds of expressions that a majority of the citizens in many communities would dislike.”   In a dissent, Justice Paul de Muniz unsuccessfully argued that the drafters of the Oregon Constitution did not intend to protect “masturbation and sexual intercourse in a ‘live public sex show.’ ”   Bradley Woodworth, a Portland attorney who filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of a coalition of local adult business owners called the Portland Area Privacy Coalition, said only consenting adults would be affected by the ruling.   “The court is talking about activities that take place in businesses that advertise they are only for adults, and only adults frequent them. Parents and children will not be seeing live sex acts at the Lloyd Center,” he said.   But even Kaiser wonders how far some business owners will go, citing the example of Jim and Artie Mitchell, two brothers who offered all manners of live sex acts — including fornication — at their San Francisco club, the O’Farrell Theater.   “I always said there were two things we had to worry about with these cases: the court upholding the law or the court repealing the law,” Kaiser said.     Voters defeat regulation     The ruling is the latest development in a long battle over the regulation of adult businesses in Oregon. Religious conservatives and neighborhood activists have placed three measures on the ballot allowing the government to regulate such businesses. All three were defeated by the voters after being opposed by free speech advocates and adult business owners.   The most recent attempt was Measure 87, which appeared on the 2000 general election ballot. It lost by a vote of 771,901 to 694,410.   The measure’s supporters were outspent nearly 20-to-1 during the campaign. Two political action committees in favor of the measure — the Christian Coalition of Oregon Issues PAC and Oregonians for Children — spent $13,434 on their campaigns. In contrast, the No Censorship — No on Measure 87 Committee spent $250,590 to defeat it.   The campaign against Measure 87 received big contributions from a range of adult businesses and free speech advocates.   Perhaps because of the lack of regulations, Oregon is known for the number of its adult businesses. For example, a T-shirt currently sold by the national Hot Topic retail chain features the slogan “Oregon: Come for the fishing. Stay for the strip clubs.”   Many, if not most, of the adult businesses are in the Portland metropolitan area. No one knows how many exist because they are not licensed separately from other businesses. The September issue of Exotic magazine, a local guide to adult businesses, lists 47 strip clubs, 36 X-rated book and video stores, and 21 lingerie modeling studios in the region.   In addition, dozens of women advertise as private entertainers in the magazine and Portland’s two alternative newsweeklies, Willamette Week and the Portland Mercury. Business also is conducted through Internet Web sites and chat rooms.   Two prominent local men have been killed in the past five years after meeting women in that manner. Banker Wayne Olson was killed in his West Hills home on Aug. 20, 2000, by an associate of Jessica Rydman, whom he met through a newspaper ad. On Oct. 19, 2004, lawyer Douglas Swanson was killed by the boyfriend of Lydia Marie Way, whom he met through the Internet.   Sex and the law   In its Thursday rulings, the Oregon Supreme Court said the following section of the state constitution protects live sex shows:   Article I, Section 8. Freedom of speech and press. No law shall be passed restraining the free expression of opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write or print freely on any subject whatever; but every person shall be responsible for the abuse of this right.

Oregon: Skiing in the morning, becah walk in the afternoon, nudie bar by dinner, and watching someone play hide the object by midnight

Hahaha.. I am close to that place.. We used to call that the "Smack Shack"

I've always heard there was more than one way to skin a cat beaver, now they'll show ya!

Typical Portland thinking.  You can use the same argument as the proposed tri-county supplemental income tax....
"Its for the children."

The ruling says its freedom of expression in a public venue.  So, why does it have to be in a club?  Why not outside on the street?  Only in Portland........

Oregon, the land of idiots.
A Governor that gives away drivers licences to illegals with NO ID.  So called Sleepy Ted K.

A Portland Mayor that thinks those who live in Portland or "has Portland as the center of their social or business life" should pay an additional 1.25% income tax.  Was a temporary 3 year tax.  Now, they want to make it a 10 year tax!  Once they start taxing you, they won't stop.

A public employee retirement system that is driving the State broke.  Two years ago the average retiree was making 108% of their base pay at retirement.  Now thats how a State ought to be run by a union.

Now I got a reason to dust off my Stars VIP card............

Any one want to meet me there Friday night?

Dude that card is expired.

Worked last Friday Beatch!  And no sex shows!  :-(