Yesterday, in a morning post, I mentioned that in 1967 Lake Geneva, Wisconsin’s “city government passed an ordinance banning go-go girls, dancers in bikinis, and swimsuit-clad waitresses from working in establishments that served alcohol.”
It was local government deciding for you. Like most people, I would prefer a restaurant where the emphasis was on the food, not the waitresses.
Still, I would never advocate a ban — if someone dislikes this sort of restaurant, he or she can go elsewhere.
No one forces you inside.
Even while a group of scolds managed to push Lake Geneva in a restrictive direction, America was using the idea of go-go dancing to sell products. Here’s a Kodak commercial from 1965 or 1966 that, however dated now, must have seemed trendy then:
Shocking, absolutely shocking.