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I personally don't enjoy such clubs, however the only thing I would say is negative is sometimes the violence affiliated with them. I have heard way too many stories regarding strip clubs and violence, especially with professional athletes.
If you shut them down, then what would the adults do for entertainment?
Just my not-so-humble opinion. B)
What does that have to do with the adult entertainment industry itself?
Start underground adult entertainment clubs. That's traditionally what has happened.
See: street prostitution and massage parlors when brothels are finally shut down by city officials.
All that stuff flourishes anyway. It is all around us, even with the so-called "adult entertainment" industry.
Instead of shutting them down, I would tax the living daylights out of them – the clubs, not the patrons – and that would drive the cost of going to them so high that they would die a natural death. As far as the illegal activities are concerned, we would first have to change the prison system from an all expenses paid social club to real punishment denizens. No real career criminal fears going t prison anymore. The fear of real punishment would prove to be a very good deterrent, however, you must realize that there will always be a criminal element no matter how severe the punishment – except that there would be less than what we now have.
Taxing the living hell of them would also create an underground economy just as making illegal does. There's a balancing point where the excise tax on strippers or pornography say would reside as acceptable and where people would start to exit the natural marketplace and find their own. There's always some level of this that exists outside the natural market, but if the natural market is safe, relatively accessible, and properly restricted to adults, most adults would abide by it. Once it starts getting priced into the sky as you request, they won't. And you'll be left with more dangerous outlets, like street prostitution rather than brothels (more dangerous for both consumer and provider).
I don't see how most "adult entertainment" should be illegal in the first place, unless you're talking about Sal's people being in fights and such at a strip club. It's not any of the state's business.
And I'm not sure you've been to a prison anymore than I could say you've "actually" been to another country. Prison is not fun. This is a mythology. The reason they don't fear going to prison is that they probably won't end up there (many crimes will go unresolved or will have the wrong people convicted), or if they will, it's not with a sense of immediacy connected to their actual crimes. It has very little to do with the idea that prison is somehow more fun now than living in a project or something. "White collar" prisons for the guys doing ponzi schemes or identity theft maybe. That's not where violent offenders tend to end up.
FYI – I am an ex cop, from both military and civilian. I know what kind of individuals populate prisons. I know how prisoners are treated, not only by the prison system but by the other inmates. I have arrested way too many repeat offenders who were more than happy to go back where they were guaranteed food, clothing, a roof over their heads, and more drugs and sex than they knew what to do with along with a complete free education to as high as they wanted (some have even obtained a law degree). To these folks prison is not a punishment, but a way of life.
Just thought you might like to know.
Don't care about anecdotal evidence.
Show me the statistical proof that the recidivism rate is because of why you say (and not because our criminal justice system is broken in other meaningful ways, particularly in the probation and parole system). Thanks though.