Occasionally—say, on summer nights when the rooftop bars and sidewalk patios are hot enough to cook on—all you want to do is sit in the air-conditioning, drink an icy cold vodka tonic, and look at some titties and ass.
Well, if you live in Seattle, good luck with that, because you cannot legally purchase alcohol at strip clubs in Washington State. You can look, but you can’t drink, and this law, according to a number of exotic dancers I spoke to, makes their jobs harder, less lucrative, and more dangerous.
“People say if you allow drinking, the men are going to act crazy, and so this is a way of protecting the girls,” said Angelique, a Seattle native who has been an exotic dancer since 1994. “But men show up drunk and act crazy anyway. It doesn’t protect us.”
