Strip clubs often regulate the amount of certain musical genres that can be played in the club. They do this because often times, playing too much of certain musical genres attracts patrons who behave in certain ways. These behaviors may include not tipping, pimping, shooting up the club, fighting, and telling strippers that they need to surgically enhance their rear-ends. While these behaviors are not exclusively limited to certain musical genres, these behaviors are significantly more likely in certain musical genre dense clubs. These customer behaviors are bad for business. In a place where money is the bottom line, allowing a DJ to play an unlimited amount of certain kinds of music causes an economic disadvantage for all who work there. Additionally, the violence that it ignites is a public health hazard.

With all of the above acknowledged, when a club regulates the kind of music a stripper can dance to, they are exercising control over her that legally classifies her as an employee. It doesn’t matter the club’s reason for regulating the music. It doesn’t matter whether or not it’s good for business to limit certain kinds of music. When strippers are not allowed to dance to certain musical genres, they are being treated like employees. Strippers can sue for this, and the law will be on their side.

If I was going to open a strip club, I would definitely want to limit the amount of certain musical genres my club played. I understand the risks to the club. However, I would also understand that in doing this, I would be treating my workers as employees. Therefore, I would not call them contractors or lease holders.