Naked Truth: Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian RightAcross America, strip clubs have come under attack by a politically aggressive segment of the Christian Right. Using plausible-sounding but factually untrue arguments about the harmful effects of strip clubs on their communities, the Christian Right has stoked public outrage and incited local and state governments to impose onerous restrictions on the clubs with the intent of dismantling the exotic dance industry. But an even larger agenda is at work, according to Judith Lynne Hanna. In Naked Truth, she builds a convincing case that the attack on exotic dance is part of the activist Christian Right’s “grand design” to supplant constitutional democracy in America with a Bible-based theocracy. Hanna takes readers onstage, backstage, and into the community and courts to reveal the conflicts, charges, and realities that are playing out at the intersection of erotic fantasy, religion, politics, and law. She explains why exotic dance is a legitimate form of artistic communication and debunks the many myths and untruths that the Christian Right uses to fight strip clubs. Hanna also demonstrates that while the fight happens at the local level, it is part of a national campaign to regulate sexuality and punish those who do not adhere to Scripture-based moral values. Ultimately, she argues, the naked truth is that the separation of church and state is under siege and our civil liberties—free speech, women’s rights, and free enterprise—are at stake. |
Contents
1 Scripture and Hostility to Exotic Dance | |
Call to War | |
Striptease 101 or Seduction by the Devil | |
Marginal or Mainstream? | |
Bench Trials | |
Jury Trials | |
Appendix 5 Messages of Physical Distance | |
Appendix 6 Expressive Contact in Exotic Dance | |
Lap Dance Heritage | |
Appendix 8 Exotic Dance Patrons | |
Appendix 9 Judith Lynne Hannas Exotic Dance Expert Witness Court Testimony | |
Appendix 10 Illustrative Jurisdictions that Attack Exotic Dance | |
Appendix 11 Key Christian Right Political Activists and Revenue in the News 19952010 | |
Appendix 12 Arsenal of a Segment of the Politically Active Christian Right | |
Need to be Saved? | |
Where Are the Bodies? | |
9 Stripping Your First Amendment and More | |
Appendix 1 Exotic Dance | |
Appendix 2 Comparison | |
Appendix 3 Exotic Dance Criteria for Serious Artistic Merit | |
Appendix 4 Nudity in Exotic Dance | |
What Neighbors Say about Exotic Dance Clubs | |
Appendix 14 Protection under the Constitution of the United States of America | |
Notes | |
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Naked Truth: Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right Judith Lynne Hanna No preview available - 2012 |