Weird, I was at a place in West Palm Beach last week and the same thing happened there. Mom and daughter both at our table giving us dances. Mom was 42 and looked 30.

She tells herself she's still a 10, but the mirror has turned on her, she says. If she could, she'd get rid of them all: "Now they're my worst freaking nightmare."

Time for that correspondence course in gun repair.

Classy!

needed more pictures of tiffany.

The torch of womanhood has been passed onto the next gerneration.

Now show me them boobies.

Sweater Girl
Ooh, yes. I should check MySpace out....

Looks like St. Pete Times readers have weighed in this morning on this one:

Keep the filth out of the paper

It's bad enough that I can't avoid some sort of porn in my e-mail in-box or from bulletin boards, or online pop-ups or TV - but to get it from my local newspaper? That's so disgraceful. It's bad enough to know in the back of my mind the filth that is in our county. I don't need to read about it in detail from you.

Do you and Joe Redner have a special relationship? Stop featuring him and Mons Venus and other strip joints.

And on top of all that, your placement choice was equally off color: in the same section with the comics. I used to read the comics with my kids! Now I'll think twice before sharing any part of your newspaper with anyone.

A disgraceful display

You should be very proud of yourselves for the very large and disgusting story plastered all over the front page of the Floridian section. How a nauseating it was to open the paper and read this huge story about the mother-daughter pole dancers and how good they make men feel by rubbing against them. The story was all about how respectable the profession is and how proud the mother is of her daughter for her talent in turning men on. The daughter, as well, is grateful to her mom for teaching her the right moves on how to slide back and forth on men.

The article is a disgrace to the paper and to families that receive it. You not only took up the front of the Floridian but also continued onto almost a full page inside. This story was fit for Hustler magazine, not for the newspaper.

We read daily about sex crimes, murder, suicide, tragic accidents, and it seems like only at graduation time do we hear about the great thing kids have done. This story had no place in my living room.

Now that summer is here, my three teens also read the paper in the morning, and what a shame our kids had to see how this sinful profession was exposed. But good always can come out of sin. I was able to show my teenagers how the devil is always working to snare the unsuspecting, but at least in this family we have the Lord in our lives. I really hope you print this in the opinion section of your paper, or are you too ashamed?

The wrong lesson for young people

What an advertisement for the Mons Venus! On the front page of the Floridian, too! A lot of young girls and kids read this section. Wow! It tells them how you can make lots of money and set your own hours. The younger the better. Forget working at Taco Bell or Kmart. That's for suckers. You, too, can own two houses by the time you're 23!

The only thing you have to do is take your clothes off and dance in front of total strangers who are gawking you or give lap dances to these strangers. What a mother/daughter team! That's really what you want to teach your children. Anything for a fast buck.

I don't know who I feel more sorry for. The mother who taught her daughter that it's okay to dance naked for a living, the daughter who never learned to value herself as a woman, or the Times for embarrassing itself by printing a story that certainly didn't need to be told. Very sad.

This is inappropriate reading

I am writing regarding the story that you chose to present as the cover story of the June 1 Floridian section. What are you thinking? This is a family newspaper and I just ordered my subscription for Newspapers In Education so that I can use your newspaper in my classroom all summer.

A story about mother/daughter strippers is not the one I want with my morning coffee, nor do I want my students reading this trash.

If there are no quality stories in all of your circulation area on which you can report, then please fill the space with something that isn't offensive and doesn't contain a front page picture of a pole dancer in a strip club.

We are routinely faced with enough garbage in the national and world news each day. Please don't publish this type of story in our local papers. I'm seriously considering canceling both my home and school subscriptions. A story about mother/daughter strippers is going too far!

TFA: She's a single mom, twice divorced, with four kids: a teenage son, plus three daughters ranging in age from 15 to 25.

So are they BOTH still paying their way through law school?

this article was actually quite eloquent and well-written compared to the normal fark standards...

How much for a mother-daughter lap dance? Ass-to-ass?

Gotta love it, a journalist actually does the job right and people whine because of the subject matter. I'm pretty sure the print edition made it very clear what the story was about right upfront. Don't like it? Don't read it. But any time you can make people whine about what you wrote about not what you wrote, you're doing it right.

It's been song long since I was in the Mons. Geez it was just yesterday that I watched her while she was breastfeeding her younger daughter while dancing around the pole......

Pink_Princess:
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What an advertisement for the Mons Venus! On the front page of the Floridian, too! A lot of young girls and kids read this section. Wow! It tells them how you can make lots of money and set your own hours. The younger the better. Forget working at Taco Bell or Kmart. That's for suckers.

I'd say you're less likely to be treated like shiat working at the Mons Venus than at Taco Bell. Less likely to have a manager who makes $2/hr more than you telling you he won't set your schedule so you can go see your kid's school play. Less likely to be verbally abused by a customer (or at least Taco Bell won't have the guy tossed out by a bouncer). And much, much less likely to see a -$100 difference between your paycheck that week and the cost of buying decent groceries for your family.

That said I'm not sure who would recommend stripping as a profession to most women. I understand it makes one quite cynical about men, and once you hit 35 or so you are really pushing the envelope of your working lifespan with no backup skills. Being a stripper might not be bad, but I can't imagine being an old ex-stripper is very appealing.

Mugato: What about 2001? I haven't been there in ages. You?

Is the lap dance really that much better when she's crying?

That's classy with a K, three S's and an I.

\Klasssi?

No Such Agency

I'd say you're less likely to be treated like shiat working at the Mons Venus than at Taco Bell. Less likely to have a manager who makes $2/hr more than you telling you he won't set your schedule so you can go see your kid's school play. Less likely to be verbally abused by a customer (or at least Taco Bell won't have the guy tossed out by a bouncer). And much, much less likely to see a -$100 difference between your paycheck that week and the cost of buying decent groceries for your family.

Also you're much less likely to have to deal with customers trying to pay with $2 bills.

I bet grandma is gettin' more action than a sixth grade schoool teacher!

It's a very respected profession.

Solve_Et_Coagula:
Also you're much less likely to have to deal with customers trying to pay with $2 bills.

Nice. I considered working that in somewhere, but I knew I could rely on Fark to do it for me.

*head asplodes*

Generally speaking, I don't have a problem with strippers. I just think it's weird to be dancing naked in the same club as your mom.

I was able to show my teenagers how the devil is always working to snare the unsuspecting...

hehehehe, that crazy devil. Gotta watch out or he'll getcha!

12inpianist

Yes.

Especially when they're doing it to buy baby formula.

I'd like to see the pr0n movie based on their lifes.

Let's make sure these people keep breeding!

It's a family newspaper! HA. Yes, nothing like sitting at home with the kids and reading the family friendly news articles. Look mom! That guy hacked up all those teen girls after he raped them, then threw their bodies in a lake!

They still have strip clubs? I thought that they were rendered obsolete with the advent of internet porn.

A sign of the times when a mainstream newspaper quotes the word "freaking."

I've often wondered what old strippers do. Perhaps they go back to waitressing.

I want to take them in the back "special" room for one of them there mother-daughter lap dance's. Uh hu

Confabulat: Maybe you should try it in Brandon, MO.

It's GREAT when retards make fun of each other.

Mons has definitely gone down. Last I was there, about 5 years ago, they'd just instituted the "6 foot rule"--men couldn't be within 6 feet of a naked woman, which in effect outlawed lap dances. Lots of girls quit, and the ones who stayed simply ignored the rule. The cops would raid the place nearly every night back then.

Maybe those complaining prudes have a point. Who wants to read about boobies when you can go and see the real thing?

A life half-lived isn't worth living.

You mean Branson, Mo.?

Man, isn't this article from the same newspaper that ran the "For $8 and a candy bar" story? If so they have one dark editor.

one thing that really bothers me is when people judge the way other people choose to live their lives. who gives a crap what these women choose to do? its their lives, not anyone else's.

what sort of psychos walk around this world holding everyone up to some moral standard that they consider proper? so righteous and perfect themselves, they have nothing better to do than criticize the way others choose to live.

i mean, some moral issues are pretty straightforward... dont kill, for example. whether or not you believe in a God, you know that killing is wrong in most circumstances. how wrong, really, is being naked? i just have never seen the evil of it. the real moral question is when did we make being naked equivalent to sex? what about our society makes Janet Jackson's tit popping out mean the end of the world? we have created this issue through our own sexualization of women to sell products.

personally, i see nothing wrong with strip clubs. i see nothing morally wrong with casual sex between consenting adults either. if this is how these women choose to make money, more power to them. it is their choice.

the moral police will never stop though, until we are all as miserable as they are.

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