Oregon’s Stripper Lobby: Legislators Ask Exotic Dancers for Help With Strip Club Bill

Daily Beast:

Now, as The Daily Beast has exclusively learned, Portland’s alternative approach to the sex industry is being taken all the way to the state legislature. In a historically unprecedented move, strip-club dancers are working in tandem with lobbyists, legislators, and social workers to draft a new set of industry regulations slated to hit the House floor for a vote in the February 2015 legislative session.

Though the policy itself is still being drafted, the effort has already piqued the interest of legislators in the judiciary and labor committees.

“I am pleased that the National Association of Social Workers is bringing up the important issue of workplace protections for exotic dancers,” State Representative Margaret Doherty (D-OR), who chairs the House Business and Labor Committee, told The Daily Beast, “Everyone deserves safety and fairness in their workplace.”

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