Businesses that provide services of a “prurient” nature are excluded from the multi-trillion bailout because of obscure federal regulation that lawyers say is an unconstitutional limit on free speech.
News about the restriction on relief money spread quickly on social media. Cartwright said she had been getting panicked messages from staff at Monroe’s: “I immediately started getting text messages that said ‘Wait a second, we’re not worthy of help? We’re humans just like anybody else.’”
Angelina Spencer, who is the executive manager of the Association of Club Executives, the industry trade group for strip clubs, said the restrictions were particularly galling because many of the people who judge the industry see dancers as victims. “The thing that always kills me too is that they always say ‘every dancer that works in a club is a victim.’ If that’s so, you’ve just victimized them further because we can’t get any relief to help them,” said Spencer.
Jeffrey Douglas, who is the chairman of the board for the porn industry trade organization, the Free Speech Coalition, and a chairman emeritus of First Amendment Lawyers Association , called the restriction a “complete absurdity.” “What prurience means according to scores, probably hundreds of [court] cases over the last 60 years is essentially identical to obscenity,” he explained. And he said legally, the standard for something to be considered obscene is incredibly high. “None of [the porn that is currently available through mainstream outlets] could possibly fail the obscenity test.”
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