Tampa adult businesses try to cash in
Mons Venus strip club dancer Bernie Notte knows the cash a Super Bowl can bring. It flew at her like confetti during Tampa's 2001 game. She earned $6,000 in four days at the Tampa strip club. She danced so much that her feet bled. Customers didn't flinch at paying $100 for a $25 lap dance.
"It was crazy,'' she said. "Money was everywhere.'' Notte, 43, packed up her stilettos seven months ago to wait tables at the Mons. But the lure of Super Bowl XLIII tickled her toes. She's headed back to the pole.
The Super Bowl is a command performance for a city defined, in part, by its international reputation for lap dancing. Tampa has 30 licensed adult dance clubs, adult theaters, live model studios and adult bookstores on record at City Hall. That's roughly 1 per 11,300 residents, among the highest rates nationwide.
The infamous adults-only scene gives Tampa part of its luster, some say.
"I don't think it's a stretch to say that the adult entertainment industry helps us get things like the Super Bowl,'' said Paul Allen, publisher of NightMoves magazine, one of the oldest adult club publications in the country.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy scoffed at that.
"That's ridiculous," he said.
But come next week, expect a steady stream of out-of-towners lined up outside a small, shoebox-shaped building on Dale Mabry Highway, in the shadow of Raymond James Stadium.
Each will pay a cover charge of maybe $60, up from the normal $20, though Mons Venus owner Joe Redner says demand will dictate price.
Inside, five or six dancers at a time gyrate around a pole, catching cash as it flies at them. A jukebox blares. Customers sip water, soda or juice — no alcohol at Tampa's all-nude clubs — until a spot opens on padded benches along the club perimeter.
Technically, lap dancing is illegal in Tampa. Technically, nude dancers are supposed to stay 6 feet away from customers.
"People need to be aware of the laws that apply," warns Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy.
Redner will keep the Mons open around the clock all week, closing it only for housekeeping. (Now and then, someone must polish the pole. So to speak.)
Read the full article by Times staff writer Susan Thurston
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