Sexually Oriented Businesses
- Sexually explicit businesses, including strip clubs, book stores and video stores, now face strict licensing requirements, thanks to a vote by the Troy City Council. Troy is a suburb of Detroit.
- Phillip Cosby, executive director of the National Coalition's Kansas City office, recently addressed students and staff during chapel at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Cosby educated the audience on the harmful secondary effects of sexually oriented businesses and revealed compelling statistics that confirm pornography use is detrimental to people, communities and society as a whole.
- With the recent quandary surrounding the legality of “adult novelty” items, the legislature in Tennessee sought the opinion and advice of their state’s attorney general as they are seeking to expand the definition of a Sexually Oriented Business to include establishments which sell novelty items. This would be an important expansion of the definition of an SOB and would give greater regulatory control to local municipalities and states.
- If the infamous Ninth Circuit agrees that “lap dancing” can be outlawed, it must be bad! Communities across the country are extending the traditional “no-touch” aspects of their Sexually Oriented Business (SOB) ordinances to the newly upheld “buffer zones” from 2 feet to 10 feet in distance – patrons and dancers are not allowed to breach this safety zone not only to protect the integrity of the “speech” by the dancer, but also to cut back on drugs and prostitution.
- What You Need to Know to Protect Your Community, Business and Property from the Harmful Secondary Effects of Sexually Oriented Businesses
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