Editing Striptease (section)

==Striptease and the law==
{{Main|Legal status of striptease}}
From ancient times to the present day, striptease was considered a form of [[public nudity]] and subject to legal and cultural prohibitions on [[morality|moral]] and [[indecent exposure|decency]] grounds. Such restrictions have been embodied in venue licensing regulations, and national and local laws, including liquor licensing restrictions.

[[File:IndigoBlueMissExoticWorld2006.jpg|thumb|left|upright|A [[neo-burlesque]] stripper at the [[Miss Exotic World Pageant]] in 2006, wearing [[pasties]] as required in some U.S. jurisdictions]]

===United States===
Numerous U.S. jurisdictions have enacted laws regulating the striptease. One of the more notorious local ordinances is San Diego Municipal Code 33.3610,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://docs.sandiego.gov/municode/MuniCodeChapter03/Ch03Art03Division36.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721061912/http://docs.sandiego.gov/municode/MuniCodeChapter03/Ch03Art03Division36.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-21 |url-status=live |title=Ch03Art03Division36 |access-date=2012-08-01}}</ref> specific and strict in response to allegations of corruption among local officials<ref>{{cite news|url=http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/probe/20050719-9999-1n19council.html|title=More bad news? What else is new? – Blemishes keep city in national spotlight|author=Philip J. LaVelle|date=19 July 2005|newspaper=The San Diego Union Tribune|access-date=7 January 2016|archive-date=18 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218225253/http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/probe/20050719-9999-1n19council.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> which included contacts in the nude entertainment industry. Among its provisions is the "six-foot rule", copied by other municipalities, that requires that dancers maintain a {{convert|6|ft|m|adj=on|spell=in}} distance while performing.

Other rules forbid "full nudity". In some parts of the U.S., laws forbid the exposure of female (though not male) nipples, which must be covered by [[pasties]].<ref name="Richard Wortley 1976"/> In early 2010, the city of Detroit banned fully exposed breasts in its strip clubs, following the example of Houston, where a similar ordinance was implemented in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?k=71554&id=38135a7b-209a-41ef-a325-80435be65732 |title=Houston topless clubs lose case, may respond to Supreme Court with pasties |publisher=Canada.com |date=2008-03-29 |access-date=2012-08-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192107/http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?k=71554&id=38135a7b-209a-41ef-a325-80435be65732 |archive-date=2016-03-03 }}</ref> The city council has since softened the rules, eliminating the requirement for pasties<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/22628122/detail.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609032414/http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/22628122/detail.html|url-status=dead|title=Detroit Passes New Strip Club Rules - Detroit Local News Story - WDIV Detroit|archive-date=June 9, 2011}}</ref> but keeping other restrictions. Both cities were reputed to have rampant occurrences of illicit activity linked to striptease establishments.<ref>{{cite web|author=Time Waster |url=http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0602081harris1.html |title=Another Houston Strip Club Raided |publisher=The Smoking Gun |date= 2011-06-06|access-date=2012-08-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://kissdetroit.hellobeautiful.com/10251/detroitcitycounciltovoteonstripclubrestrictions/|title=Detroit City Council To Vote On Strip Club Restrictions|author=Fantasee Blu|date=11 November 2009|publisher=Kiss-FM|location=Detroit|access-date=29 January 2016|archive-date=2 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202015516/http://kissdetroit.hellobeautiful.com/10251/detroitcitycounciltovoteonstripclubrestrictions/|url-status=dead}}</ref> For some jurisdictions, even certain postures can be considered "indecent" (such as spreading the legs).<ref>"A Gentleman" (2010) [https://books.google.com/books?id=yVhNAAAAQBAJ&dq=striptease+indecent+postures&pg=PA2 ''The Stripping Question''] Xlibris, p.2 {{ISBN|9781450037556}}{{self-published source|date=December 2017}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}}

=== United Kingdom ===
In Britain in the 1930s, when the [[Windmill Theatre]], London, began to present nude shows, British law prohibited performers moving whilst in a state of nudity.<ref>Martin Banham, "The Cambridge guide to theatre", [[Cambridge University Press]], 1995, {{ISBN|0-521-43437-8}}, page 803</ref>  To get around that rule, models appeared naked in stationary [[tableaux vivants]]. To keep within the law, sometimes devices were used which rotated the models without them moving themselves. [[Fan dance]]s were another device used to keep performances within the law. These allowed a naked dancer's body to be concealed by her fans or those of her attendants, until the end of an act, when she posed naked for a brief interval whilst standing stock still, and the lights went out or the curtain dropped to allow her to leave the stage. Changes in the law in the 1960s brought about a boom of strip clubs in Soho, with "fully nude" dancing and audience participation.<ref name="Murray Goldstein 2005"/> Following the introduction of the [[Policing and Crime Act 2009]], a local authority licence is required for venues in England and Wales (and later Scotland) where live nude entertainment takes place more than 11 times a year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100413151441/http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/crimereduction057a.pdf|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100413151441/http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/crimereduction057a.pdf|archive-date=13 April 2010|title=Sexual Entertainment Venues: Guidance for England and Wales|date=March 2010|publisher=Home Office|access-date=6 February 2016}}</ref><ref name="Echo NewLaws 2010">{{cite web | url = http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/8212913.Tough_new_rules_on_strip_club_openings/ | title = Tough new rules on strip club openings | access-date = 2010-06-11 | work = Echo | date = 2008-06-11 | last1 = Orbach | first1 = Max}}</ref>

=== Iceland ===
The [[legal status of striptease#National issues|legal status of striptease in Iceland]] was changed in 2010, when [[Iceland]] outlawed striptease.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16567&ew_0_a_id=359882 |title=Iceland Review Online: Daily News from Iceland, Current Affairs, Business, Politics, Sports, Culture |publisher=Icelandreview.com |date=2010-03-24 |access-date=2012-08-01 |archive-date=2013-12-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131201174014/http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16567&ew_0_a_id=359882 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir]], Iceland's prime minister said: "The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale."<ref name="salon.com">{{cite news |last=Clark |first=Tracy |url=http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/03/26/iceland_bans_stripping_strip_clubs |title=Iceland's stripping ban - Broadsheet |work=Salon.com |date=2010-03-26 |access-date=2012-08-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605073604/http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/03/26/iceland_bans_stripping_strip_clubs |archive-date=2011-06-05 }}</ref> The politician behind the bill, [[Kolbrún Halldórsdóttir]], said: "It is not acceptable that women or people in general are a product to be sold."<ref name="salon.com"/>