The Seattle City Council is trying to deprive nice young women of using their um.. assets to earn the best living they can. They want to pass stricter stripper control laws that will prohibit adults from touching other adults and exchanging currency directly.

The City Council votes Friday on a proposal that would ban lap dancing. Earlier this week, more than 100 strippers descended on City Hall to voice their opposition to the new regulations.

The regulations would also bar dancers from touching customers and the customers would not be allowed to tip the strippers directly.

One dancer, Suzanne Snow, says her income would take a nosedive if the anti-lap dancing rules go into effect. She says makes 50 grand a year working part-time so she can take care of her 5-year-old son.

The vote has been delayed until next month, but it is expected to pass. So much for a Constitutional right to privacy.

Seattle has already banned additional strip clubs, now it hopes to drive the existing ones out of business. While I don't frequent such establishments myself, I don't see the harm in consenting adults exercising in free enterprise.