We’ve all seen a pair of breasts before. Whether it was on ‘boob tube,’ in a movie, in a mag­a­zine or dur­ing our infancy when we were suck­ling from our moth­ers’ teats, boobs are a part of life.

A top­less bar is press­ing to set up shop in Stanwood just off of the express­way on Exit 131. The build­ing they’ve cho­sen to use has been up for sale for sev­eral years, lying empty and unprof­itable. With the eco­nomic cri­sis faced by many Americans, it’s good to see some entre­pre­neur­ial spirit com­ing to the area.

Nudity has been pro­tected under the first amend­ment as free­dom of speech numer­ous times. Other prob­lems include an impli­ca­tion for the rise of crime and crim­i­nal activ­ity such as solic­i­ta­tion and assault. It’s a fact that around any place that serves alco­hol, not just a top­less bar, less than savory activ­i­ties will hap­pen. Look at Halloween. Girls wan­der the streets scantily-clad, dressed up in out­fits you’d nor­mally see in a lin­gerie shop, and call it a costume.

I con­grat­u­late those girls who dressed risqué on Halloween. They felt pretty, empow­ered and sexy for one night. Feeling com­fort­able in your skin and with your sex­u­al­ity is some­thing many peo­ple have a hard time doing, but for some it’s a gift to be used. It is fem­i­nism, and it is empow­er­ing of the female body.

Someone has to do the ‘dirty jobs’ in life. We can’t all have safe and ordi­nary desk jobs and expect soci­ety to func­tion. We all have to eke out a liv­ing some­how, and work­ing at a place such as The Gentlemen 131 would pro­vide con­sid­er­ably more cash flow than wait­ing tables at a reg­u­lar bar or even work­ing a full­time job. Strippers can earn $500 for a day shift and $1,000 or more for a night shift.

I attended the com­mis­sion meet­ing at the town­ship hall in Rogers Heights where a room full of right­eous hate-filled peo­ple blasted the com­mis­sion mem­bers for over an hour. On the other hand, speak­ing with stu­dents and other mem­bers of the com­mu­nity at large, the con­sen­sus was “Who cares? If you don’t like it, don’t go.”

If this busi­ness had a com­pet­i­tive health care plan and 401k options, I would apply today. As far as top­less bars go, I can imag­ine this is going to be one of the safest ones in the state because of its loca­tion and the com­mu­nity. This is a good area where good peo­ple live, and if those good peo­ple would like to go to a place where they can see a nice look­ing pair of ta-tas, don’t hold it against them.

Exotic enter­tain­ers are peo­ple too, with the same rights and priv­i­leges of any other American cit­i­zen. We should be happy that any busi­ness wants to pro­vide jobs to an area strug­gling with unemployment.

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