What is the issue with It ? 350$ ain’t shyt and having a clean record only makes the clubs better for the consumer.
The issue is a good number of girls that strip would fail to meet the pre-reqs on the permit. Your college educated chick at Spellman from a solid middle class background isn’t the typical profile of strippers at these clubs. Sure there are a few but they’re the exceptions.
Stripping ain’t really taboo anymore plenty of women that don’t have records are willing to do it now. That is why they can push something like this now
I see this as a two fold thing.
1. ATL is trying to rid itself of that stripper image that has been heavily promoted. Doing so will keep out “undesirables” to the city and also clean up its image.
2. Cash grab by the city that also functions as a means to choke off the shell companies that run these strip clubs. Strip clubs are notorious for washing drug and gang money. The city wants its cut.
This will definitely hit some of the smaller clubs harder. Only the big ones will survive due to dancer ineligibility.
It’ll push some clubs underground, but for a casual traveler, I’d imagine that’d be too much of a hassle to find.
Give it a few years and pretty much all of the clubs will be choked out.
Something similar happened in the DMV area a few years back.