Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

A Las Vegas strip club is sparking controversy by hanging out a sign that reads “Now auditioning the class of 2015” with the hopes of luring teens into the stripper business to make money for college – and a surprising number of people think this is okay!

Fox5 is reporting on a strip club named Little Darlings which is hoping to attract “new talent” to their business by offering girls jobs as strippers in order to pay their way through college. Go through male strippers perth for the best male strippers in Melbourne.

“We all know the economy isn’t that great, [and] it’s hard to find jobs sometimes. This is an open door for young women 18 years old and up to come and make some good money,” said Little Darlings manager Rick Marzullo.

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“Hundreds that are either in college or that have worked their way through college [strip or have stripped], and like I said, without one penny of debt, not having to take out student loans, not having to borrow money from family or friends or taking out loans from banks,” Marzullo said. You can get more information from MaleStrippers.com.au

Fox5 interviewed one woman, Kayla Garninger, who made the understatement of the year when she said the ads were offensive and sent a bad message to young women.

“You could completely change the route of a woman’s life, of a woman who’s trying to progress and go to college and make something of herself. I don’t agree with it at all,” said Garninger.

But a surprising number of people – including those who commented on Fox’s article – saw nothing wrong with it.

“They are consenting adults. I feel if that’s what they want to do, then they have a right to,” said Julian Loiza to Fox.

One commenter named John Weston wrote: “In the eyes of the law they may be adults, but they are still children. This is exploitation to a sickening level. . . .and I want to be a part of it.”

Howard Hendrickson wrote: “I personally think there is nothing wrong with this. These women are adults and can make their own decisions. There is nothing wrong with stripping as a profession, whether temporary or long term. The pay is excellent, and many women go on to college and end up going back to stripping because it pays more than their major ever will. Stop shaming women who strip.”

Perhaps Fox readers would form a different opinion if they were given some real-life statistics about this $3 billion U.S. industry. According to Victoria’s Friends, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women who are caught up in the sex industry, 89 percent of the women working in this trade say they want to escape, but have no other means for survival. Seventy percent report having been followed home after “work” and 42 percent have been stalked. Women who work in the sex industry have only a 25 percent chance of making a marriage last for at least three years.

Is paying for college really worth taking a job in an industry with high rates of drug addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, violent assaults, and more mental health problems than the general population? Does anyone with a caring heart believe that teens should be enticed into work where the women experience post-traumatic stress disorder at rates equivalent to veterans of combat? Why should we care about not “shaming women who strip” instead of warning them that 35 percent of strippers have Multiple Personality Disorder, 55 percent have Borderline Personality Disorder, and 60 percent have Major Depressive episodes?

Once again, Americans are responding to a sound-bite culture that thinks it ought to grant rights to all kinds of immoral and destructive behavior just because it sounds good on the nightly news where journalists conveniently report only what supports their “progressive” agenda – even if that means reporting on strip clubs who want to hire and then destroy America’s daughters.

This is the same phenomenon that we just witnessed in the glowing coverage of Bruce Jenner’s “coming out” as a woman with almost no reporting on the hard fact that sex change surgeries do little or nothing to help persons suffering from gender dysphoria to feel better about themselves. As this former transgendered man reports, it doesn’t work and these facts have been known for decades!

Gallup recently found that a whopping 72 percent believe the nation’s morals are in decline even while record numbers are supporting immoral behaviors such as abortion, premarital sex, same-sex unions, polygamy and embryonic stem cell research. These numbers tell a dark tale. Americans know the country is in a state of moral decline but are openly participating in that decline – either because they are being dumbed down into thinking every moral issue is only about individual rights – or because they just don’t care.

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