Coyote TV - High Desert Advocate

    How do you explain to a five year old girl what a show girl is?
    Of all the statement made in Tuesday’s city council meeting that question struck us the most.
    Considering that the only signage around the Southern X-posure is gaudy lettering without a suggestive photo in sight, then answer is pretty easy-- a show girl is a girl who dances on stage.
    One can get into more details if one chooses but that is a simple and a straight forward and honest answer.
    Most five year olds will accept it and not bother with a follow-up.
    We know a lot about five year olds and their questions having raised four of them.
    Why is the sky blue?
    Why is a day a day long?
    Where do babies come from?
    One question none of our five year olds ever asked us was-- What is fair?
    Kids seem to know what is or is not fair.
    Indeed the universal concept of justice is so endemic to children that it has been argued it is a proof of G-d.
    In a world so apparently not fair, that young children should even have a concept of justice is truly mind boggling, unless one believes we were created by a just G-d. The sense of justice, the argument goes, must be part of the original material of the soul.
    The underlying issue in the strip club fight has nothing to do with strippers, sexy dancing, or its impact on young impressionable minds.
    It has to do with fairness or the lack of it.
    One cannot take the moral high ground for one business featuring near naked girls and at the same time not murmur a peep against another business featuring near naked girls.
    The only difference between them we can perceive is that the near naked girls are dancing in the first while the near naked girls are dancing and sometimes deal a hand of black jack in the second.
    In other words a lap dance is okay as long as one hits on a soft 17?
    We don’t think so.
    The grand standing that was done in Tuesday’s meeting was as ridiculous as it was bizarre.
    Here in a town that owes its very existence to vice, illegal across the border, our council is protecting us from vice?
    Thanks but no thanks.
    Of course the is a difference between gambling and stripping, one tends to lose one’s money faster at gambling.
    There is another difference no one on the council bothered to talk about.
    While no one under 21 can get through the doors of the Southern X-posure, children as young as infants can go into a casino and many as young as 14 work in them, perhaps not directly with gambling but in the kitchens, in the restaurants and in the hotels. Are those minors adversely affected being in such close contact with gambling drinking and scantily clad cocktail waitresses?
    But most of the kids we have seen grow up in Wendover turn out pretty okay. Funny thing in the past 20 years all of those kids grew up with a strip club operating  in the Plaza.