The legal connection between adult entertainment and private parties made headlines recently in two different East Coast communities. A recently published story reported that owners of an exotic dance club in Coopersburg have ignored a deadline to apply for a zoning variance that would allow weekend sex parties.
''We are zoned as a hotel bar/restaurant with adult entertainment, and as such we are allowed to rent the rooms out to anyone that chooses to rent them,'' Bruce Young, an owner of the Silhouette Showbar, told The Times Union. Club visitors pay a $60 admission fee which enables them use of the bar area and 12 rooms upstairs at the club.
Another report from Schenectady, New York, said that the City Council is trying to force the Union Street Bed and Breakfast Inn to host their swinger’s parties in industrial areas. According to the report, the council “seeks to expand the zoning regulations for adult entertainment so that they apply to hotels that offer hourly rentals for the purpose of sex.”
Union Street Bed and Breakfast owner Bob Alexson told The Morning Call that the swingers parties are a part of his private life, not the inn's business. Neighbors, however, argue that the parties are intertwined with the inn and should be regulated by the city.
Portions of this courtesy of the Free Speech X-Press, the weekly newsletter of the Free Speech Coalition. More info at www.freespeechcoalition.com.
