Naked Truth: Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Prelude | Sparks Fly | Church and State Conflict 1 1 Scripture and Hostility to Exotic Dance 18 2 Fighting Exotic Dance | Call to War 32 3 Target of Attack | Striptease 101 or Seduction by the Devil 71 4 Nudity, Touch, and Sex | Marginal or Mainstream? 127 5 “Rottweilers” Lock Their Jaws | Bench Trials 140 6 Shooting Nude Crotches | Jury Trials 165 7 Exotic Dancers and Labor | Need to be Saved? 184 8 Christian Right Claims Club Crime | Where Are the Bodies? 210 9 Stripping Your First Amendment and More 241 APPENDICES 1 Exotic Dance 261 2 Comparison 262 3 Exotic Dance Criteria for Serious Artistic Merit 263 4 Nudity in Exotic Dance 264 5 Messages of Physical Distance 265 6 Expressive Contact in Exotic Dance 266 7 Contact in Social Dance: Lap Dance Heritage 267 8 Exotic Dance Patrons 268 9 Judith Lynne Hanna’s Exotic Dance Expert Witness Court Testimony 270 10 Illustrative Jurisdictions that Attack Exotic Dance 273 11 Key Christian Right Political Activists and Revenue in the News, 1995–2010 279 Contents 12 Arsenal of a Segment of the Politically Active Christian Right 282 13 Reality and Myth: What Neighbors Say about Exotic Dance Clubs 283 14 Protection under the Constitution of the United States of America 287 Notes 289 References 297 Index 319 ...