CLEAR LAKE — A sports bar owner is threatening to turn his establishment into a topless bar if the city tickets him for having a wet T-shirt contest this weekend.
Alan Slater, co-owner of The Marina, 2309 Fourth Ave. S., plans to hold a wet T-shirt contest Saturday night.
“I’ve given the city ample opportunity to back off on this. If they decide to push it, I will put in a topless bar. The city has to decide if this is the issue they want to try it over.”
Slater said he doesn’t think the event violates the city’s adult entertainment ordinance because the women participating in the wet T-shirt contest will be wearing pasties under their T-shirts covering their nipples.
According to Clear Lake city ordinance section 130.07, “If such person allows or permits the exposure of the genitals or female breast nipple of any person who acts as an entertainer, whether or not the owner of the place of business in which the activity is performed employs or pays any compensation to such person to perform such activity” he or she is in violation of the ordinance.
“We believe that this is a violation of our adult entertainment ordinance,” said Clear Lake Police Chief Greg Peterson.
“He (Slater) does not have an adult entertainment permit. I will be there to take a look at it and I will be issuing a ticket.”
How unfair is it that government continues to discriminate against the display or semi-display of nipples solely on the basis of human gender?
You know, I've been to Clear Lake in the winter many years ago. It gets cold up there. This bar owner ought to wait for winter and have a "dry t-shirt contest" outdoors, if you know what I mean. He'd also be able to allow smoking, something which will be outlawed in Iowa bars in a couple of weeks.
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