Thank the porn god for Big Government!!!
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NY- New York's strippers may soon have a real license to thrill.

State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, proposed legislation Monday which would require the state's exotic dancers to obtain a permit to ply their trade or face a fine.

The "Dance Performer Registration Act" would create a database of the Empire State's exotic dancers. To bare it all, each stripper would have to register — under their real name — with the state's Labor Department every three years. Anyone caught shimmying without a permit would be fined — $20 for the first offense and $50 for every offense thereafter.

But the proposed law isn't sitting well with the state's strip clubs, which would be required to obtain a certificate to employ licensed dancers under the legislation or face fines of $1,000 or more.

"This is an example of big government trying to put their hands in the dancers' G-strings," said Lonnie Hanover, the spokesman for the Scores chain of strip clubs. "And everyone knows there's no touching — that's not allowed."

Scores, which has seven clubs nationwide, says the bill isn't necessary.

"Full-time dancers at scores earn six-figure incomes," Hanover said. "Most of our performers are paying their way through college and there's a waiting list of women who want to become dancers at Scores."

Molly, a 28-year-old who has danced on and off for a decade, said the law has its pros and cons.

"It is good that it will quit underage girls from dancing," she said. "You don't want anybody too young to be wrapped up into that industry, but I can guarantee you, most girls won't be too happy about it."

She said the registry would blow the lid off of dancers' finances.

"I don't really like it, you know what I mean," Molly said. "When you're a dancer you're tax free, you're not really registered — they'd have proof of your income."

Within the dark confines of a Times Square gentleman's club, three-year industry veteran "Rebecca" (she refused to give her real name) didn't think the proposal would work in a business where women come and go as quickly as their customers.

She wondered Thursday how exactly the state planned to issue the permits, not to mention where the gyrating girls would put them.

"Like [when] we go for a driver's test, we've got to read the book, we've got to take the test," Rebecca said. "What test are you going to take to get a permit?"

An application, Ortiz said, is all that would be required.

The real sticky issue, Rebecca said, would be the provision that required the dancers to give the state their real name.

"There's a lot of people who are not legal," she said.

Those are the individuals Ortiz is hoping to protect.

"In order for us to end the on-the-ground industry of human trafficking, this is the first step in the right direction to bring the invisible to be visible," Ortiz said.

If passed into law, the Dance Performer Registration Act would go into effect Jan. 1, 2008.

From what I recall of stripper chick Ginger Lee, they already have shit like this in place around many southern cities like Nashville, TN. That was her motivation to go on the road with her shows I believe, because it was a total nuisance to register (which down south is their way of saying "we don't want your kind 'round here") and then they have a 4-6' rule on top of that I'm thinking?

if this passes sexyjobs.com will soon have 4,000 new resumes from would be strippers in the NY area looking to do porn to keep making them tax free dollars.
lets just kick back wait for those new girls and break them in.

I've been wondering when this was going to happen. Make no mistake, this is the future for porn. All the bitching over 2257 will soon seem like a day dream. All performers will be licensed, required to have imunization for HPV and other health measures. Of course performers will eventually have access to the some sort of industry healthcare as well.

most whores dont pay there taxes even if they get a 1099 uncle sam can wait for the money they owe but most will never send it.
Your the small 10% of girls in the industry who give him his cut.
Its like the petition biz you sign up as a indepandent contractor get a 1099 from john burkett but just choose to not pay the taxes.
porn is optionaly tax free for whores with that being said strippers from the NY area may soon like that option.

Guys, relax. This bill isn't going anywhere. I've met the guy who wrote it, Felix Ortiz, several times. (I live in Brooklyn Heights.) Every year or so he writes some crazy bill that never gets out of committee. Last year it was something to do with vegetables in the school lunches. Another year it was Bullying. Felix is a very nice man. He's just a kook, and his colleagues know it. They'll politely give it a reading and bury it. End of story.