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Article: G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire .(Book review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- March 1, 2006
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FRANK, KATHERINE. G-strings and sympathy: strip club regulars and male desire. 331 pp., bibliogr., London, Durham N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2003. [pounds sterling]15.50 (paper)
Strip clubs (exotic dance adult entertainment) are controversial in the United States and not widely understood. In many local jurisdictions, planners, policy-makers, and government attorneys fall into costly-to-the-taxpayer legal difficulties over the restrictions they try to impose on the exotic dance adult entertainment industry to protect 'the public health, safety, morals, comfort, and neighborhood property values' or the 'general welfare of the populace' (see J.L. Nanna, 'Exotic dance ...