Dallas Strip Clubs: Naked ambition
There are only estimates on the overall revenue of the sex industry. But according to Adult Video News, an industry trade magazine, US customers spent $12.6bn on DVD rentals, pornography websites and strip club visits in 2005. How those figures have changed since then is less clear. While porn production companies have suffered because of the abundance of free content online, strip clubs still tend to be profitable businesses. “Our clubs provide a steady cash flow,” says Langan.
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Nevertheless, the arrests taught Langan a lesson: never get in trouble with the law, especially if you own a strip club. He says he always plays by the rules. People may associate strip clubs with prostitution, money laundering and gangsters, but Langan says he has never, for example, had to deal with mobsters. “Our business is so regulated [and] there are so many background checks that it is not functional for them,” he says. “These guys prefer garbage and other businesses nobody cares about.”