Strip Club News @ The Champagne Room

Strip clubs aren't just places to go for a bit of good old-fashioned boozy fun and scarfing down chicken wings while stuffing ten spots into g-strings, you know—they're valuable sociological environments in which one can study cultural trends related to free expression, legal issues, commerce, and sexuality. Or at least that's what we learned while perusing the brand new Champagne Room blog, which collects all the strip club news that's fit to print from all over the world and makes up for a criminal lack of actual stripper photos so far by treating its subject with intelligence and a good sense of humor. In barely a week's worth of posts, we've already learned about things like a Canadian strip-a-thon to benefit ill children and various community objections to strip club openings far and wide, which will certainly give us something to chew on the next time we head into the VIP room at our local gentleperson's club. Besides chicken wings and g-strings, that is.

· The Champagne Room (champagneroom.typepad.com)
· Thumbnail photo by Gail Orenstein (Flickr, previouly seen here)

Previously: Stripped Daily, Porn Valley Dispatch: Meet Natasha Stone, The Gallery: Online Strip Club, Pole For The Soul, Ten Striptease Pioneers, "Strippers: The Untold History of the Girlie Show", Danni's Virtual Lapdances